Literature Ireland is pleased to announce its involvement in this year’s Marché de la Poésie in Paris. The festival, which will take place from 3 to 7 June at the Place Saint-Sulpice on the Left Bank, is one of France’s most prestigious poetry festivals, and marks the largest annual gathering of poets and poetry publishers in the French literary calendar.
This year, Ireland has been chosen as the festival’s ‘country of honour’ and will be represented at the festival by a selection of prominent Irish poets: Cúán de Búrca, Vona Groarke, Mícheál McCann, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Mary Noonan, Leanne Quinn and Stephen Sexton. The festival will see the launch of three new anthologies of Irish poetry in French, all of which received essential financial support from Literature Ireland: 100 Poèmes by Seamus Heaney (Éditions de La Table Ronde), Collectif - Chants répétés de la mémoire: 11 poètes irlandais, ed. Virginie Trachsler (Le Castor Astral), and Ma Verte Erin: visages de la poésie irlandaise d'Oscar Wilde à nos jours, ed. Jeanne Marie (Manifeste).
Partners of the 2026 edition of the Marché de la Poésie include the Embassy of Ireland and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, who co-produced the Irish programme with support from Poetry Ireland and Literature Ireland.
See more on https://www.marche-poesie.com/
Posted to News on 3 Jun 2026.