Victoria Kennefick
{{short description|Irish poet}}
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Victoria Kennefick is an Irish poet. She has been an artist/poet/writer in residence for Cork County Council, University College Dublin and the Yeats Society.{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=UCD Writer in Residence 2023 |url=https://www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/newsandevents/writerinresidence2023/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227135135/https://www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/newsandevents/writerinresidence2023/ |archive-date=27 February 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=University College Dublin - School of English Drama Film}}{{Cite web |date=12 May 2022 |title=Victoria Kennefick - New Poet in Residence |url=https://www.yeatssociety.com/victoria-kennefick-new-poet-in-residence/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526033238/https://www.yeatssociety.com/victoria-kennefick-new-poet-in-residence/ |archive-date=26 May 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=Yeats Society Sligo}} She has been a recipient of bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and Kerry County Council.{{Cite web |date=17 January 2017 |title=Next Generation bursary 2016 - Kennefick, Victoria-171171103 |url=https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funding-decisions/Next-Generation-bursary-2016---Kennefick,-Victoria-171171103/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117154656/https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funding-decisions/Next-Generation-bursary-2016---Kennefick,-Victoria-171171103/ |archive-date=17 January 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=Arts Council (Ireland)}}{{Cite web |title=Poet Victoria Kennefick shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize |url=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 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241029-212920/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 |archive-date=29 October 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=University College Cork - Alumni and Development}} Her collection Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize,{{Cite web |date=23 June 2022 |title=Queen’s announces Victoria Kennefick as winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize |url=https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2022/queens-victoria-kennefick-winner-seamus-heaney-poetry.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241029-222414/https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2022/queens-victoria-kennefick-winner-seamus-heaney-poetry.html |archive-date=29 October 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=Queen's University Belfast |language=en}} and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award for Poetry.{{Cite web |last=O’Donoghue |first=Denise |date=24 November 2021 |title='It's really lovely for poetry': Cork poet shortlisted for £30k Costa Book Awards |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40751547.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117154655/https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40751547.html |archive-date=17 January 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=Irish Examiner}}
Background
Kennefick comes from Shanagarry, County Cork.{{Cite web |last=Dennehy |first=Fergus |date=12 June 2023 |title=Poem by Tralee based poet, Victoria Kennefick, appears on Leaving Cert |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerry/tralee-news/poem-by-tralee-based-poet-victoria-kennefick-appears-on-leaving-cert/a962439339.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241029-213956/https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerry/tralee-news/poem-by-tralee-based-poet-victoria-kennefick-appears-on-leaving-cert/a962439339.html |archive-date=29 October 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=Irish Independent}} She studied in University College Cork (UCC) and obtained a Fulbright scholarship, with terms attended in Emory University and Georgia College & State University. She holds a doctorate in American literature from UCC.{{Cite news |last=Kennefick |first=Victoria |date=16 June 2015 |title=Victoria Kennefick on White Whale: navigating the poetry of grief |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/victoria-kennefick-on-white-whale-navigating-the-poetry-of-grief-1.2251514 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241029-214701/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/victoria-kennefick-on-white-whale-navigating-the-poetry-of-grief-1.2251514 |archive-date=29 October 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |newspaper=The Irish Times}}
She was named Cork County Council writer-in-residence in December 2023.{{Cite web |date=1 December 2023 |title=Victoria Kennefick announced as Cork County Council Writer in Residence |url=https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/victoria-kennefick-announced-as-cork-county-council-writer-in-residence |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227233234/https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/victoria-kennefick-announced-as-cork-county-council-writer-in-residence |archive-date=27 February 2024 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=Cork County Council}}
Personal life
Kennefick's father died while she was undertaking her doctoral work. Kennefick lives in Tralee, County Kerry, She has one child.{{Cite web |date=4 May 2022 |title=Something For The Weekend: Victoria Kennefick's Cultural Picks |url=https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0504/1295804-something-for-the-weekend-victoria-kenneficks-cultural-picks/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228113927/https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0504/1295804-something-for-the-weekend-victoria-kenneficks-cultural-picks/ |archive-date=28 February 2023 |access-date=29 October 2024 |website=RTE.ie}}
Recognition and awards
Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize,{{Cite web |date=10 April 2019 |title=Announcing the winner for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2022. |url=https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seamus-heaney-centre/news/SeamusHeaneyFirstCollectionPoetryPrizeWinner2022.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703002940/https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seamus-heaney-centre/news/SeamusHeaneyFirstCollectionPoetryPrizeWinner2022.html |archive-date=3 July 2022 |access-date=24 June 2022 |website=Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry}} and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2021.{{Cite web |date=15 October 2021 |title=T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/10/15/195278/t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist-announced/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240108050441/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/10/15/195278/t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist-announced/ |archive-date=8 January 2024 |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}
Her work was quoted on a Leaving Certificate exam paper in 2023.
Works
- {{Cite book |last=Kennefick |first=Victoria |title=White Whale |publisher=Southward Editions |year=2015 |isbn=9781905002405 |language=en |oclc=908450834 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kennefick |first=Victoria |title=Eat or We Both Starve |publisher=Carcanet Press |year=2021 |isbn=9781800170711 |language=en |oclc=1226763665 |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kennefick |first=Victoria |title=Egg/Shell |publisher=Carcanet Press |year=2024 |isbn=9781800173842 |language=en |oclc=1410592356 |ref=none}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/victoria-kennefick Victoria Kennefick's Poetry] at the Poetry Foundation
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Category:Emory University alumni