Poetry in Bloom at Powerscourt

Powerscourt Estate home to the third-best gardens in the World* has launched a novel initiative to encourage people to connect with and be inspired by nature. To create inspirational stories, in the forms of poems and lyrics, as part of the “Poetry in Bloom” initiative.

This poetry initiative is an invitation to everyone from 7-year olds up to create a poem or write lyrics, inspired by nature they have observed at Powerscourt Gardens and Waterfall, throughout August and September 2020. All submissions are online and will automatically be entered into an open prize draw to win a variety of amazing prizes.

“Poetry in Bloom”, was developed by Powerscourt, in partnership with creative writing organisation Fighting Words and is in homage to the late Viscountess of Powerscourt Shelia Wingfield who was a gifted poet, with many of her poems inspired by nature and her surrounds at Powerscourt Estate. The initiative is supported this year by renowned International/Irish/ Hollywood actor Patrick Bergin. Patrick Bergin is a lover of poetry and a great supporter of the arts, especially encouraging and supporting poetry and the arts in the young in London, Dublin, and LA. Patrick will be reading through the submissions to “Poetry in Bloom” and helping to select a number of poems to be used as a basis of a short poetry film to close the initiative.

www.powerscourt.com/poetryinbloom
www.fightingwords.ie/poetryinbloom