I am so excited to be off to County Clare this weekend as I’ve been shortlisted in the Poetry Prize at this festival. The programme looks great and when I looked at the winner from last year I was even more thrilled to be included in this year’s shortlist. Check out last year’s winner on the Doolin Festival website – it’s a wonderful poem, ‘Hearing Red’ by Sarah Byrne.
This has really cheered me up as I have been depressed by what has felt like endless silence in response to the poems I have been sending off. I am also very pleased because the poem, ‘Knitting’, so shocked me when I wrote it that I almost didn’t send it.
I won’t post it here yet as the rules include the usual caveat that the entries must be unpublished, including on line and I’d hate to disqualify myself after being shortlisted!
Thirza Clout 