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Victoria Kennefick is an Irish award winning poet. She has been an artict/poet/writer in residence for Cork County Council, University College Dublin and the Yeats Society.[1][2] She has been a recipient of bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and [[Kerry County Council.[3][4] Her collection Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award for Poetry.[5]

Background

Kennefick comes from Shanagarry, County Cork.[6] She studied in University College Cork (UCC) and obtained a Fulbright scholarship, with terms attended in Emory University and Georgia College & State University.[4] She holds a doctorate in American literature from UCC.[7][4]

She moved to Tralee, County Kerry,[6] but was named Cork County Council writer-in-residence in December 2023.[8]

Works

  • Kennefick, Victoria (2015). White Whale. Southward Editions. ISBN 9781905002405.
  • Kennefick, Victoria (2021). Eat or We Both Starve. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781800170711.
  • Kennefick, Victoria (2024). Egg/Shell. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781800173842.

Recognition and awards

Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize,[9] and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2021.[10][4]

References

  1. ^ https://www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/newsandevents/writerinresidence2023/
  2. ^ https://www.yeatssociety.com/victoria-kennefick-new-poet-in-residence/
  3. ^ https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funding-decisions/Next-Generation-bursary-2016---Kennefick,-Victoria-171171103/
  4. ^ a b c d https://alumni.ucc.ie/s/1901/bp19/interior.aspx?sid=1901&gid=2&pgid=1073&cid=2589&ecid=2589&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=1868
  5. ^ https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40751547.html
  6. ^ a b https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerry/tralee-news/poem-by-tralee-based-poet-victoria-kennefick-appears-on-leaving-cert/a962439339.html
  7. ^ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/victoria-kennefick-on-white-whale-navigating-the-poetry-of-grief-1.2251514
  8. ^ https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/victoria-kennefick-announced-as-cork-county-council-writer-in-residence
  9. ^ "Announcing the winner for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2022". Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. 10 April 2019. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  10. ^ "T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced". BooksAndPublishing.com.au. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
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