IPTN eZine

Current and Past Editions

Vol 9 Issue 1: Autumn 2024

In this issue, we welcome the announcement of our annual conference, which will take place on 12th October via Zoom. Keynote speaker Lani O'Hanlon, a writer and movement artist with Waterford Healing Arts Trust, will be the keynote speaker. We are sure you will enjoy her short story "We're with the Band."

Carol Boland, PTP, reveals how the MS group flourishes after 15 years, and Alison Broder shares her thoughts on the pairing of circular culture and poetry at the Eymet poetry circle in France.

This Ezine also includes our Member Poetry Corner, which contains six poems: the article "Exciting Times" by Ger Campbell, "How Poetry Therapy Helped Me" by Sadie Harpur and "Poetry Therapy in Practice: Recovery from Brain Injury" by Shelley Tracey, PTP.

IPTN eZine - Autumn 2023

In this edition, we feature Jackie Hayden, writer, author and music industry consultant with his article "Music Lyrics as Healing", David Madden, psycotherapist, supervisor and writer, tells us the story behind "Memory", an anthology of writings celebrating 25 years of the Sligo Rape Crisis Centre, organization he is CEO of. Alison Broder, retired pshycotherapist, brings her article "I dream a dream" and Shelley Tracey, writer and PTP, relates her experience in the Northern IReland Mental Health Festival where she delivered three workshops focused on the ways in which poetry can contribute towards wellbeing, creativity and self-expression in her article "Poetry Therapy in Practice". Anne O'Reilly, Ph.D, poet, contributes to this eZine's edition with "Poetry, Permeability and Spaceousness".

IPTN eZine - Autumn 2022

In 2022 Autumn issue, Irish writer, Carol Boland, "Stories We Tell: Poetry as Narrative Therapy", Brian Leyden, María Ortega...

IPTN eZine - Spring 2016

IPTN eZine - Spring 2016

The first issue of IPTN magazine includes a research study carried out by psychotherapist Alison Broder on "The Power of Words: how and whom does poetry therapy heal", and updates about the state of poetry therapy in Ireland. Carol Boland reviews Niall Hickey's The Backward Book.

 

Vol 7 issue 2: Autumn 2022

 

Vol 7 Issue 1: Spring 2022

 

Vol 6 Issue 2: Autumn 2021

 

Vol 6 Issue 1: Autumn 2021

Vol 5 Issue 1: Spring 2020