The Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Prize
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2012 Winning and Commended Poets
More about the O'Donoghue Prize
Previous years' winners & their poems
Read the 2012 winning poems in Southword.
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Read competition judge Patrick Cotter's blog about his decision making process.
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The Munster Literature Centre is pleased to announce the 2012 winners and commended poets.
1st Place
Suji Kwock Kim, New York, USA for “Sonogram Song”
2nd Place
Alinda Wasner, Michigan USA for “Ode to the Night and the Morning Following an All-Day Day of Arguing”
3rd Place
Tom Moore, Cork, Ireland for “Meteorites”
Highly Commended (10)
in alphabetical order
Erica Miriam Fabri, New York, USA for “Fish”
Judith Krause, Regina, Canada for “Mitterand’s Last Meal”
Jude Neal, Bowen Island, Canada for “Blue Bowl”
Tanya Olson, North Carolina, USA for “Slave to the Virgin”
Lynn Roberts, Kent, UK for “Le Douanier Rousseau: Surprised”
Mark Ryan, Clare, Ireland for “Breakfast with Yeats”
Padraig Rooney, Muenchenstein, Switzerland for “The Names of the Winds”
John Withworth, Kent, UK for “First Sight”
Amber West, New York, USA for “Daughter Eraser”
Alexandra Zempiloglou, Thessaloniki, Greece for “I lost me child”
Commended (70)
in alphabetical order
Susan Adams, NSW Australia for “Entire of Himself”
Melanie Almeder, Virginia, USA for “The Kennebec”
Devreaux Baker, California, USA for “New Orleans Style of Prayer”
Gerry Boland, Roscommon Ireland for “The Local Accupuncturist”
Burton Bradley, Wyoming USA, for “A Very Old Man Smoking His Last Cigar”
Genevieve Burger-Weiser, New York, USA for “Small People”
Cian Cafferky, Dublin, Ireland for “Nothing to See”
Mary Rose Callan, Dublin, Ireland for “Small Girl with Orange Paint”
Karen Campbell, Cheshire UK for The Ichthyologist as a Young Man”
Ron Carey, Dublin, Ireland for “Finavarra”
Eileen Casey, Dublin, Ireland for “Brought to Surface”
Evan Costigan, Dublin, Ireland for “The Kiss”
Hilary Davies, London, UK for “Coming Back”
Maria Dilorenzo New York, USA for “The PO Box”
William Doreski, New Hampshire, USA for “Blue Cotton Dress”
Tom Dredge, Kildare, Ireland for “Teelin Fiddlers”
Roger Elkin, Biddulph Moor, UK for “Mustapha Loves Her”
Michael Farry, Meath, Ireland for “Rulers”
Rachel Feder, New Orleans, USA for “Three Birds, One Heart”
Claudia Finseth, Tacoma, WA, USA for “Small Cry”
Siobhan Flynn, Dublin, Ireland for “My inner child is a teenage boy”
Peggie Gallagher, Sligo, Ireland for “Old Lady”
Carmel Hayes, Kilkenny, Ireland for “Self Portrait”
Eoin Hegarty, Carlow, Ireland for “Secret Pools”
Tania Hershman, Bristol, UK for “Dreams of a Tea Seller”
Gail Irvine, Aberdeen, Scotland for “Daily Bread”
Helena Kahn, Cork, Ireland for “East Cork A.D. 2000”
Nora Keller, New Jersey, USA for “Affinity”
Peter Kline, San Francisco, USA for “Fear of the Weaver”
John J. Kelly, Dublin, Ireland for “Up the Moyne (for rhubarb)”
W. F. Lantry, Washington D.C. USA for “Evanescence”
Paige MacKay, Ontario, Canada for “the ropes”
Michael McCarthy, Yorkshire, UK for “Westerns”
Robert Mc Dowell, Dublin, Ireland for “Kiss Chasing”
Mourad Mchiri, Montreal, Canada for “The Song of the Libertadores”
Michael McKimm, London, UK for “Eventually I had to leave....”
Alan McMonagle, Galway, Ireland for “Witch Woman”
Jim Maguire, Wexford, Ireland for “Nocturne”
Maryvonne May , St Pons de Thomiers, France for “Limpkins and Pelicans”
Maximilian Meinhardt, Mainz, Germany for “a vulture circles – black the body sweats”
David C. Meyer, Illinois, USA for “Apologio pro Poemate Meo”
Jory Mickelson, Idaho, USA for “So Careful After”
David Mohan, Dublin, Ireland for “The Swim”
Anna Moore, Waterford, Ireland for “Peace in Rest”
Gerard Moore, Laois, Ireland for “The Island”
Mary Moore, West Virgina, USA for “Damara Diving”
Peggy Moran, Illinois, USA for “Colored”
Irene Mosvold, Kentucky, USA for “Death Takes A Stroll”
Mae Newman, Dublin, Ireland for “Peace Lily”
James O’Brien, Massachusetts, USA for “first they get distracted”
Karen O’Connor, Kerry, Ireland for “Taken”
Mary O’Gorman, Tipperary, Ireland for “Lasair Choille”
Tim O’Leary, London, UK for “Bats in Lucania”
Cathal O’Riordain, Dublin, Ireland for “The Shape of my Father’s Feet”
Michelle O’Sullivan, Mayo, Ireland for “Substance”
Susan Azar Porterfield, Illinois, USA for “Woman’s Art”
Edward Power, Waterford, Ireland for “Tintype Girl”
Aidan Rooney, Massachusetts, USA for “Circuit”
Matthew Rowe, London, United Kingdom for “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday”
Denise Ryan, Dublin, Ireland for “Moon Brides”
Don Schofield, Thessaloniki, Greece for “The Blind”
Sally Spedding, Ammanford, Wales for “The Missing”
Kim Stafford, Oregon, USA for “Wild Light at Achill Island”
Victor Tapner, Essex, UK for “Banquet in the Hall of Happiness”
Dominic Thompson, Surrey, UK for “General Nguyan Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon – E.A.”
Eran Tzelgov Beersheba, Israel for “Long Legged Cry”
Christian Wallace, Galway, Ireland for “Across the Landscape”
Julie Watts, Watermans Bay, Australia for “And Everyday Is Sunday”
Sarah Wetzel, New York, USA for “Near Death Experience”
Michael White, North Carolina, USA for “Woman Holding a Pearl Necklace”
John Hartley Williams, Berlin, Germany for “Houri”
Leigh Zaphiropoulos, New York, USA for “Coming Too, A Head, Near You”
The Prize
The Munster Literature Centre is pleased to host an international poetry prize for single poem, named in honour of a late Irish poet long associated with the Centre. The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize will have a first prize of €1,000 ($1430.32/ £875.86 on xe.com as of 5th September 2011) and publication in Southword Literary Journal. The MLC will subvent travel costs for the winner up to €600 and provide hotel accommodation and meals for three days during the Cork Spring Poetry Festival. There will be a second prize of €500, third prize of €250, and ten runners-up will each have their poems published in Southword and receive Southword’s standard fee of €30. The 2011/2012 Judge is Munster Literature Centre Director Patrick Cotter.
The winners will be notified in late January. Due to the large volume of entries, the judge will not be able to notify the authors of non-winning poems or give individual feedback. A shortlist will be posted on our website in late January and the winners will be announced during the Cork Spring Poetry Festival. If you would like to receive the shortlist by email, please sign up for our email newsletter by visiting http://www.munsterlit.ie . Simply scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your email address into the 'Email Newsletter' form.
Click here for more information about the prize.
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Previous winners of the Gregory O'Donoghue Prize
Sandra Ann Winters, 'Death of Alaska' (Judge 2010/2011: Leanne O'Sullivan) & John F. Deane, 'Shoemaker' (Judge 2009/2010: James Harpur)
To view previous years' commended authors, please visit the Gregory O'Donoghue Competition page at www.munsterlit.ie .
