Donegal Daily is celebrating a month of poetry with the #WeAreThePoetsDonegal series, in association with Poetry Ireland.
Throughout April, we will share daily poetry by established writers from across the county.
This series invites you to take a moment to read, enjoy or share poetry in the lead up to Poetry Day Ireland on Thursday 30 April 2020.
Today’s featured poet is Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Featured photo with credit to Ror Conaty of Monolith Photography
Watch:
Annemarie reading at the Glebe Gallery for the RTE Poetry Ireland Summer Readings Series 2019:
About the poet:
Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from Cloich Cheann Fhaola in northwest Donegal.
Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) and Town (The Salvage Press, 2018). In 2019 she was a co-recipient of the inaugural Markievicz Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
In 2020 Ní Churreáin was awarded a Literature Bursary from Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. She is a recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award from the President of Ireland.
Ní Churreáin is 2019-20 Writer-In-Residence at University of Ireland Maynooth. Bloodroot is available to buy online at: www.doirepress.com/
#WeAreThePoetsDonegal – Click here to read the full series so far.
Visit www.poetryireland.ie for more as we countdown to Poetry Day Ireland.
If this series has inspired you to write your own poetry, you are invited to send them in to wearethepoetsdonegal@gmail.com to be featured at the end of the month.
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