poets meet painters 2024 Anthology

Now available at Mill Cove Gallery or by post

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Submissions for Poets Meet Painters 2025 will begin in April 2025

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​The Judges

Robert Mohr, Ph.D., lives in Dublin and specializes in Anglo-Irish literature and American poetry. His Ph.D. from University College Dublin, focused on the intersection of W.B. Yeats and James Hillman's works. Prior to this, he completed his M.A. in English and American Literature at San Francisco State University in 1982, exploring Theodore Roethke's poetry for his thesis. He also holds a Secondary Teaching Credential from the University of California at Berkeley. He has contributed significantly to writing education with his publication How to Write: Tools for the Craft. He was involved with establishing the Open Window Gallery in Rathmines in 2014.

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Cathy Leonard, originally from Tyrone now living in Dublin, has been writing and teaching for over thirty years. She has facilitated creative writing workshops in Adult Education Centres and at UCD. Her poetry, short stories, and children’s fiction have been widely published in Ireland and the UK. Her credits include: The Cork Literary Review, The Works, Poets Meet Painters, Skylight 47, New Isles, The Fish Anthology and most recently The Irish Times Poetry Section. She has been shortlisted for several awards including the Bridport Flash Fiction Competition, and was runner up in the Fish Flash Fiction Award and in Sceine, Kenmare Poetry Festival Competition.

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John W. Sexton was born in 1958 and identifies with the Aisling poetic tradition. His work spans vision poetry, contemporary fabulism and tangential surrealism. He is the author of seven poetry collections, the most recent being: The Offspring of the Moon (Salmon Poetry 2013), Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry 2018), and Visions at Templeglantine (Revival Press 2020). A chapbook of his surrealist poetry, Inverted Night, came out from SurVision in April 2019. His next collection, The World Under the World, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. He is a past nominee for The Hennessy Literary Award and his poem The Green Owl was awarded the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007 for best single poem. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.

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Eileen Sheehan lives in Killarney. One of the poems from her most recent collection, The Narrow Way of Souls (Salmon Poetry), featured on the Leaving Certificate English Syllabus 2019 - 2022. Anthology publications include TEXT: A Transition Year English Reader; Blackjack, with translations by Oana Lungu; Best Loved Poems: Favourite Poems from the South of Ireland and The Deep Heart’s Core: Irish Poets Revisit a Touchstone Poem. A selection of her work appears on Poetry International Web with an introductory essay by Paul Casey. She has read at festivals in Ireland and abroad and was Bealtaine Writer in Residence at The Seanchaí Kerry Writers’ Museum, Listowel.

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