Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is seeking entries again for its
annual poetry competition. The poetry competition is run in conjunction with
the Poems For Patience series as part of Cúirt International Festival of
Literature which runs from April 8th – 14th in Galway.
Deadline: Friday
February 22nd.
The prize as part of the annual poetry competition includes: the winner
will have his/her poem published and displayed on the Arts Corridor of
University Hospital Galway as part of the 2019 Poems For Patience series.
The poems, after exhibition on the Arts Corridor,
are then displayed in waiting areas throughout Galway University Hospitals.
The
winner will also be invited to read his or her winning poem at the launch of
the 2019 Poems For Patience at Cúirt International Festival of Literature in
April 2019; given a copy of their poem printed and framed as a Poem for
Patience poster and invited to submit six poems for consideration to be a
Featured Reader at the Over The Edge: Open Reading series in Galway City
Library.
The aim of Poems for Patience is to provide access to poetry for patients, their families, staff, visitors and the wider hospital community. Waiting areas are used by patients and their loved ones on a daily basis, in outpatient clinics, going for scans, x-rays and other tests as inpatients.
The competition judge
is Kevin Higgins.
Poems entered in the competition should be no more than 32 lines long.
ENTRY FEE
To enter one poem the fee is €10. If you enter two or more poems the entry fee is €7.50 per poem i.e. to enter two poems it costs €15, to enter three poems €22.50 and so on.
Details
here
