The Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award.

12th Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award.

The Inchicore Ledwidge Society are now accepting entries for the above competition and details are available on The Poetry Ireland Site as well as some of the local ones. Orla Fay has plenty of information up and I think Michael Farry had some information up a while back. If not I'll have to come back into this and edit! There is a trophy and cash prizes as well as certificates of merit so well worth the effort. Michael O' Flannagan of The Inichicore Sosiety is also the editor of the monthly broadsheet "Riposte" and has published many local writers, and indeed many of those would have picked up prizes in the competition itself. I went down to visit the Ledwidge house and museum a couple of years back and the village (town) of Slane is not a bad place to spend an hour or two.

Before I go both Michael Shiels and Tommy Murray have videos up on youtube. Michael has more than a few, and if you go to his site I hope you'll find a link there. (Sheriff from Navan). Tommy Murray was the guest reader at the White House in Limerick and I believe the video features him reading some of his poems there. So check over at Meath Books. Click on the links opposite. Finally if you are in need of some entertainment take a look at The Emerging Writer site and check out "Poetry Chicks at The White House". Way to go!

Photos: Ledwidge Museum and Garden.