Paula Meehan
Paula Meehan has received the Butler Literary Award for Poetry, the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, the Denis Devlin Award, and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. She was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2013 to 2016; her public lectures from these years, Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them, was published by UCD Press in 2016. The Solace of Artemis was published in 2023 by Dedalus Press.
Interviews with Paula Meehan
Notable Poetry Books of 2024: The Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize Shortlist, recommended by Paula Meehan
Seamus Heaney argued that poetry might not change the world, but it could change our perception of the world. Now, a new prize set up in his name seeks to honour exciting new work with a political edge. Poet Paula Meehan, one of the judges of the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize, talks us through their shortlist of six poetry books and pamphlets we should be reading in 2024.
