Seamus Heaney has won the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize at the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Poetry Now Festival in Dublin.
Heaney’s Human Chain was awarded the €5,000 prize on Saturday beating Sara Berkeley (The View from Here), Ciarán Carson (Until Before After), Dermot Healy (A Fool’s Errand) and Paul Muldoon (Maggot).
This is Heaney’s second victory of the prize in recent years, his previous collection, District & Circle, won the prize in 2006.
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Seamus Heaney has won the Irish Times Poetry Now Prize at the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Poetry Now Festival in Dublin.
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