Listowel Writers' Week Poem of the Year

Shortlisted 2021

Michael Naghten Shanks

Sestina for The Daring Young Man on The Flying Trapeze

Michael Naghten Shanks lives and works in Dublin. His writing has appeared widely in publications such as Banshee, gorse, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, Poetry Ireland Review, and the Tangerine. He was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize in 2015 and the Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year in 2016. The Architecture of Red Caviar Sandwiches (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2019) is his latest pamphlet.

Other authors shortlisted in this category...

Siobhan Campbell

Noel King

Karen J McDonnell

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