IPTN
Welcome to Irish Poetry Therapy Network - IPTN, a non-profit organisation that provides an environment where participants explore at first hand, through the use of poetry therapy and bibliotherapy, the healing power of poetry as a means of identifying and dealing with various life issues.
Confidentiality Agreement:
IPTN Sessions are held in a confidential space. Participants, discussions and poems are only published with agreement. These sessions use poetry as therapy and are not psychotherapy sessions.
Find out more about us and how to join our network by checking out our site.
Friday 6 September 2024
Thursday 13 June 2024
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 TrĂ³caire 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.
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