A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015. Группа авторов

with their British counterparts at least with regard to the lack of complication in the situation. The Patrick Kavanagh Award, one of the most prestigious poetry prizes in Ireland, is simply confined to poets born in Ireland, or of Irish nationality, or long‐term residents of Ireland. It is awarded for a first unpublished collection and the winner receives €1000. The sole adjudicator is Brian Lynch, poet, novelist, and president of the society (the Patrick Kavanagh Society n.d.). Similarly, the Poetry Now Award is presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet.² Two prestigious poetry prizes are awarded annually at the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival and are administered by Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council—the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Shine/Strong Poetry Award. The latter is presented annually to the author of the best first collection of poems published by an Irish poet in the previous year. As Poetry Salzburg had published Jim Maguire's first collection Music Field in June 2013, the administrators were contacted so as to establish whether the poet's eligibility was somehow nullified by the possible ineligibility of his European publisher. It had not been specified in their Publishers Guidelines whether or not a publisher had to be operative in the Republic. The reply received the very next day confirmed that the sole condition was that the author had to be an Irish citizen or resident in Ireland for the past 5 years and that there was no need for the publisher to be operative in the Republic. Jim Maguire's collection was shortlisted and he was invited, together with four other shortlisted poets, to give a reading in the new Central Library and Cultural Centre in Dún Laoghaire. Although he did not win the award, it was, in his own words, “a thrill” for him to participate in such a prize reading.

Summing up, one might remark that the administrators of UK poetry prizes should devise and implement a code of practice. Joey Connelly quite rightly asks: “Why not require declarations of interest, both of the judges involved in the shortlisting process, and of those selecting the panels of judges? Why not lay bare the process by which these judges are chosen, and the shortlists assembled?” (Connelly 2014, 126). Moore suggests “a wider range of judges, such as magazine editors, small‐press‐published poets, reviewers (the latter are often poets too)” (Moore 2014). In a reply to Moore's post, Norbert Hirschhorn suggests as a possible code of conduct the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Contest Code of Ethics. For a more global outlook, one could recommend that the Irish stipulations for eligibility might be studied and also implemented.

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