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Poet Leanne O’Sullivan has been awarded the 15 annual Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry of the University of St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies. The award was presented in private ceremonies on Tuesday, April 12.

Previous winners include Eavan Boland, John F. Deane, Peter Sirr, Louis de Paor, Moya Cannon, Frank Orsmby, Thomas McCarthy, Pat Boran, Michael Coady, Kerry Hardie, Dennis O'Driscoll and Séan Lysaght. 

Congratulations to the poetry editor of the online journal Southword Leanne O'Sullivan and their current poetry workshop leader Matthew Sweeney.  Leanne  has just been announced as the 15th winner of the O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.  Matthew has just been awarded 2nd prize in the UK's National Poetry Competition.

Winners in the O'Donoghue Poetry Prize Competition have just been published in a special supplement of Southword Online. Read Sandra Ann Winters' poem on the simultaneous loss of a son and a dog here

The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry have announced the Canadian and International shortlist for this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize. The award is one of the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world.

Canadian Shortlist

Ossuaries - Dionne Brand
The Irrationalist - Suzanne Buffam
Lookout - John Steffler

International Shortlist

Human Chain - Seamus Heaney
Adonis: Selected Poems - translated by Khaled Mattawa
The Book of the Snow - translated by Philip Mosley, written by François Jacqmin
Heavenly Questions - Gjertrud Schnackenberg

'Lay Me Down Softly', a play by Bily Roche is running at the Project Arts Centre nightly until the 2nd April. Design is by Bui Bolg and lights by Paul Keoghan and the cast includes Gary Lydon.

 For more information please visit the Project Arts Centre website .