Samantha Dickey

Dec 9, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Martina Evans |Fran Lock |Patrick McGuinness |Samantha Dickey

Thanks for speaking to us about the inaugural Heaney Prize shortlist. Can you talk us through what the prize seeks to recognise? The inaugural PEN Heaney Prize, which is generously supported by the Hawthornden Foundation and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, recognises a single volume of poetry by one author, published in the UK or Ireland, a book of outstanding literary merit that engages with the impact of cultural or political events on human conditions or relationships.