About the festival:

www.munsterlit.ie

The Munster Literature Centre has been holding spring literary festivals since 1993, having gone by the names Éigse and Cork Spring Literary Festival in the past. It was renamed The Cork Spring Poetry Festival in 2012, to reflect the focus in poetry programming, which is always popular with Cork audiences. The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize for a single poem was introduced in 2010, in honour of a late Irish poet long associated with the Centre. Readers at the Cork Spring Literary Festival have included Ilya Kaminsky, August Kleinzahler, Darcey Steinke, Brian Turner, Dan Rhodes, Jo Shapcott, John Hartley Williams, Yang Lian, Andres Ehin, Mary Morrissey, Patrick Galvin, Alan Titley, Mary Leland, Kerry Hardie, Medbh McGuckian, Mary O'Malley and Conal Creedon among many, many others.

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2012 Media Coverage

Newspapers

'Birth Pangs of a Poet.'
(10 February, 2012) Colette Sheridan of the Irish Examiner.

'Literary Honor for Scientist at UCC.'
(3 February, 2012) the Cork News.

'The Cork scientist who's a part-time poet.'
(3 February, 2012) the Cork News.

'Spring festivals to chase away the winter blues.'
(28 January, 2012) Arminta Wallace of Loose Leaves: the Irish Times.

'Call for Entries for Gregory O'Donoghue Prize.'
(12 November, 2011) Caroline Walsh of Loose Leaves: the Irish Times.

Blogs

'Cork Spring Poetry Festival'
(11 December, 2011) Kate Dempsey of Emerging Writer.

'Gregory O'Donoghue Prize 2012'
(9 October, 2011) Nuala Ní Chonchúir of Women Rule Writer.

Websites

'Cork Spring Poetry Festival'
CultureFox.ie

'Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize'
Poets & Writers (pw.org)--also appears in print publication

'Cork Spring Poetry Festival'
Irish Writers Centre (writerscentre.ie)

'International Poetry Competition'
Concordia Association for Students in English (caseconcordia.ca)

'Cork Spring Poetry Festival'
DiscoverIreland.com

'The Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2012'
PoetryInternational.org

'The Cork Spring Poetry Festival'
WhazOn.com--also appears in print publication

'Cork Spring Poetry Festival'
CometoCork.ie