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Irish Times Poetry Now Award
PUBLISHERS GUIDELINES - Irish Times Poetry Now Award
The Irish Times Poetry Now Award is presented annually to the author of the best single volume of poems published by an Irish poet in the previous year.
Each press (but not individual poets) must submit five copies of each title eligible for the award, in book, proof or galley form (which will not be returned) before 5pm on December 1st 2009.
Entry is open to poets who are citizens of Ireland or who have been Irish residents for the past five years or longer.
No late entries will be accepted.
Collections must be published during 2009. For books scheduled for publishing in November or December 2009 proof or galley form is accepted.
Titles should be sent to DLR Poetry Now, Arts Office, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County council, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.
Translations are not eligible.
"Best of" collections or selected editions including previously published work are not eligible.
The shortlist of 5 titles will be announced prior to the festival and the winner will be announced in The Irish Times on the 27th March and at the DLR Poetry Now Festival.
The prize-winner will receive €5000.
The
judges' decision is final.