The programme for the 31st Yeats Winter School is now available to view!
Located at the beautiful Sligo Park Hotel, the event will take place from January 23rd – 26th 2026. More information can be found on the programme below.
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The provisional programme for the International Yeats Society 2025 conference is now available to view on our website, as well as information on registering for the conference:
Please register before 16 October to avail of the lower rate and also to book for the conference dinner. Also note that those presenting at the conference need to be members of the International Yeats Society.
The WB Yeats Society of NY’s annual Yeats Poetry Prize is open for submissions through February 1 of the new year. Poems in English on any topic (up to 60 lines each) may be entered by using the following link:
https://Yeats.Submittable.com/submit
The contest is open to anyone, any age, anywhere in the world.
Entry fees: $15 for first poem, $12 for each additional.
First prize $1,000, second $500, and honorable mentions. Winners are recognized at a public event in New York City in April, National Poetry Month.
The WB Yeats Society of NY offers the yearly competition to honor its namesake and to recognize the valuable contributions poets and poetry make to human consciousness and enlightenment. Poet January O’Neil will judge the competition, now in its 29th year. Ms. O’Neil also chose the 2024 poems.
29th Annual Yeats Winter School – January 26th to 28th in Sligo. “A weekend of relaxation, lectures, music and a tour of Yeats Country.” Directed by James Pethica, with guests Paul Muldoon, Steve Wickham, and Anne Margaret Daniel.
Program pdf below, with a downloadable link below it.
POETS’ ALERT: 2024 international W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize now open for submissions. 1st prize $1,000, 2nd prize $500, plus honorable mentions. Ends Feb. 1, 2024. Winners announced in early March.
Submit your poetry here: https://yeats.submittable.com
December 11th-12th, 2020
Full information about the conference can be found here: Yeats and Popular Culture – 11-12 December 2020 – International Yeats Society and University of Łódź, Poland (lodz.pl
In view of the unasked for popularity that Yeats has won over the years, the conference aims to focus on a two-fold understanding of Yeats’s relationship with pop culture. On the one hand, we wish to explore the issue synchronically, concentrating on Yeats’s contemporary inroads into the realm of the popular, whether via endorsing public schemes, giving public readings, writing letters for the press or indeed spearheading an Irish theatre. On the other, we would like to encourage a diachronic approach to Yeats’s lasting influence on popular culture manifested in all manner of its outlets all over the known universe, from a member of the crew of the starship Enterprise (Star Trek again) quoting ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ all the way to Sean Bean’s dying recitation of ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ in a sci-fi classic Equilibrium (2002).
If you have not received a zoom link to the conference, please contact Wit Pietrzak ( WitPietrzak@wp.pl )
Agenda for the General Meeting:
1. Relocation of IYS from Buffalo to Ireland
2. Renewal of the executive board
3. Treasurer’s report
4. JIYS
5. IYS website, mailing list and social media
6. Future conferences
7. Any other business
Friday, September 18 2020
5:00-8:00pm
Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland
‘Enchanting evening filled with stories interpreted from ‘The Secret Rose’ collection by WB Yeats performed by Imelda Ryan Jones, followed by delightful watercolour painting – inspired by Elizabeth Yeats – with Rebecca Massey.’
Free event for children ages 7-12
Sessions at 5, 6, 7pm, space for 10 children at each session.
Booking by Eventbrite Essential.
Social distancing will be in place.
