Words Ireland is a collection of seven literature organisations who work collaboratively to provide coordinated professional development and resource services to the literature sector. They include Poetry Ireland, The Stinging Fly, Ireland Literature Exchange, Munster Literature Centre, Children's Books Ireland, Publishing Ireland and the Irish Writers Centre.
The brief was to give this grouping a strong visual identity, one that was engaged, one that had an intent. So the logo becomes a declaration of the power and form of language, a statement—an exclamation.