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.
Vol 8. Issue 1: 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".
Vol 7. Issue 2: Autumn 2022
In 2022 Autumn issue (Vol 7) , Irish writer, Carol Boland, looks at how poetry can be used as a form of narrative therapy with narrative poems in "Stories We Tell: Poetry as Narrative Therapy". María Ortega García gives us an interesting perspective on how we can lose touch with our identity when we are not living day to day through our mother tonge in "At a loss for words: Exploration of Identity and language through poetry therapy". Ger Campbell pays tribute to a dear friend of IPTN, Nessa McCasey RIP. And Sinead Mac Devitt and Alison Broder share with us some of their poems.
Vol 7: Issue 1: Spring 2022
Vol 6. Issue 2: Autumn 2021
In the Issue 2, Vol 6 Issue 2, you find an extract from the Italian Journal of Poetry Therapy by Franca Mancinelli and John Taylor on "An Act of Inner Self-Surgery". Bernie Walsh shows us how we can work with ancestral material through poetry and how can we honour those who have gone before us in "Genealogy Through Poetry". David Madden discusses the importance of safety in recovering from trauma in the article "Poetry Therapy and Trauma: The power of safety". Finally, we have our regular book review, Invocation by Denise Blake, written by Theresa Kelly.
Vol 6. Issue 1: Spring 2021
Vol 5 Issue 1: Spring 2020
Vol 1. Issue 1: 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.
