Connections with Nature - Conference 11/10/25

We are pleased to announce that the IPTN 2025 Conference -Connections with Nature - will be held on Saturday 11 October '25. Our guest speaker is the masterful poet and writer Nessa O'Mahony. More information to follow shortly!

IPTN Poetry Club and Workshops 2025

Wellness Through The Seasons 2025

 

Dates for our four Saturday sessions from 2pm – 4pm

       1 February 2025 – Theresa Kelly

     12 April 2025 – Shelley Tracey

     14 June 2025 – Carol Boland

     23 August 2025 – Maria Ortega

 €20 for members and €30 for non-members

Dates for one-hour Saturday sessions from 2pm:

       22 March 2025 – Alison Broder

      17 May 2025 – Bernie Walsh

       5  July 2025 – Ger Campbell

       20 Sept 2025 – Elizabeth Fitzsimons

 Sessions are open and free to IPTN members

 

  

New IPTN Website

 IPTN has a new website with lots of information about the work of IPTN in Ireland and elsewhere.

Check it out at IPTN.ie

Poetry Therapy Ezine Autumn '24

 

IPTN Annual Conference

 

We are delighted to confirm that our IPTN annual conference this year will take place on zoom on Saturday 12 October 2024.

Our keynote speaker is Lani O'Hanlon. She was winner in the Adult Published category of the Trócaire Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition 2022 with her poem ‘When I Visit Dalal’.

Lani O' Hanlon is a writer, poet, creative writing facilitator and somatic movement therapist. She has an MA in creative writing from Lancaster University and her writing is published in various journals and anthologies including Poetry (Chicago) Portland Review, Poetry Ireland, Poetry Wales, The Irish Times, Southward, The Stinging Fly, Orbis, Abridged, Mslexia, Vanguard’s 14, and A New Ulster; anthologies, Halleluiah for Forty-foot Women and Staying Human (Bloodaxe), Poems from Pandemia (Munster Literature Centre), Small Wonders (Dedalus Press), Washing Windows Too (Arlen House) and regularly broadcast on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany.

Prizes and commendations include: Hennessey New Irish Writing, The Bridport prize, Hungry Hill's Poets Meet Politics and Poetry on the Lake.

IPTN's AGM (annual general meeting) will be held on zoom on Saturday 18th May '24 at 4.15 pm.

If you wish to join us, please email IPTN at irishpoetrytherapynetwork@gmail.com, for the zoom link .

All Welcome.

Workshops and Poetry Club '24

Throughout the year, IPTN runs Wellness through the Seasons workshops on zoom on a Saturday from 2pm to 4pm. Details of the sessions are advertised nearer the time. IPTN members receive a reduced rate.

We also run a Poetry Club (free) for IPTN members on a Saturday from 2 pm to  3 pm, on zoom.

Here are the dates for your diary and we will email a gentle reminder beforehand.

10 February 2024  Siblings and our Relationship with them. - Theresa Kelly

20 April 2024  The Road Ahead - Carol Boland in Old School, Hollyfort, Gorey,                               and on zoom. A combining of face-to-face and zoom sessions.

18 May 2024 The Place of Poetry in your Life - Shelley Tracey

24 August 2024 - Realisations of the heart: Haibun - Maria Ortega

€20 for members and €25 for non-members

Poetry Club

Dates for IPTN’s one-hour Saturday sessions from 2pm:

23 March 2024  Poems That I Like with Bernie Walsh

8 June 2024 - Anaphora with Ali Broder

27 July 2024 - Parcels with Elizabeth Fitzsimons

21 September 2024 - Let's Play with Words Ger Campbell

 Sessions are open and free to IPTN members

We look forward to seeing you there.