BANGOR poet and teacher Erin Halliday has been named as the new 'poet of promise' in a bursary award presented by the trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry.
Erin, who teaches English and classical civilisation, studied at Queen's University, Belfast, before taking an MA in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.
After a brief career in horticulture, she returned to Queen's for a PhD in creative writing and her poetry has since appeared in several publications, while a pamphlet, Chrysalis, won the Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Awards in 2012.
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust was set up in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is jointly held between Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
