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These past two years or so I have been apprenticed to a poet, Mark Roper, a word sorcerer so to speak – as you see he has had some effect on me! He has never attempted, perhaps realising it would … 
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Poets Mark Roper and Jo Slade are joint winners of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2014. This year’s judges, Theo Dorgan and Moya Cannon, chose Roper’s collection A Gather of Shadow (Dedalus Press) and Slade’s A Painter’s House (Salmon Poetry) from a large volume of submissions, finding them to be “poets whose vision and technique have been honed over a considerable period of time and whose work merits particular recognition. In both cases the voice is absolutely distinctive. In both cases there are poems which resonate in the reader’s consciousness and which invite revisiting long after the volume has been closed.” The Michael Hartnett Poetry Award was established in 2000 and has grown to become one of the most prestigious awards in the Irish-poetry calendar.
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LIMERICK poet Jo Slade has been named as the joint winner with Mark Roper of this year’s Michael Hartnett Poetry Award. The announcement comes just a week before Eigse Michael Hartnett, the literary and arts festival, opens in Newcastle West where the winning poets will be presented with their award and will read from their work.
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