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Introducing an evening of poetry and music for Harold's Cross Festival, 21 May 2026. Music by the wonderful Pearse McGloughlin and Nocturnes, and readings by Gerard Smyth, Roisin Sheerin, Michael O'Loughlin, Catherine Ann Cullen, Gilles Fabre, Alvy Carragher and myself.
With Enda Wyley at the launch of the Sunday Miscellany anthology, November 2025, at the DLR Lexicon
Summer Solstice reading at the inspiring Kingfisher Project in Kimmage, 2025
With Gilles Fabre and Liam Carson, speaking at the launch of Early Morning Firefly, MoLI, March 2025
Poetry Day 2024, reading in Dolphin's Barn Library with Christine Broe and Maurice Devitt
Launching the debut collection of my mentee Liz Norris, in the Fumbally Stables, November 2024
At the launch of Maeve O'Sullivan's Where All Ladders Start, Alba Publishing, 2024. Photographed here with Brian Kirk and Maeve O'Sullivan.
Culture Night in Chime, 2023. What a pleasure to read with signing, subtitles, and a hearing loop system! Thanks to Lynn Buckle (on left) for organising.
London launch of Winter Heliotrope
At the launch of Winter Heliotrope, with Donald Teskey, the late Andrew Moorhouse, and Oliver Sears. RHA December 2023
Manuscript completed, with the support of a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. Due for publication with Salt Publishing in January 2027.
Haiku inspired by Vermeer. A commission by the Prix de Norvège Society. Exhibited in the Oude Kerk, Delft. 2022.
Honoured to read 'Visible Mending' at this event moderated by Roddy Doyle, with Sinéad Gleeson, Rosaleen McDonagh, and Melatu-Ochu Ochorie
Launching Donald Teskey's exhibition 'Strands' at the beautiful Claremorris Gallery, November 2021.
My poem 'Donald Teskey, Ballinglen', which was the colophon for a set of carborundum prints donated by the artist to Ballinglen Museum.
In the Grand Hotel, Oslo, at the invitation of Egbert Pijfers of the Prix de Norvège society, to work on a project called 'The New Scream'. Some of the poems written during this project are in Riptide. Seen here with Aukje van Roessel, Niklaus Peter Jung, Elizabeth Munch-Elliingsen, and Egbert Pijfers.
Launch of Riptide and David Butler's Liffey Sequence, online because of pandemic restrictions.
Poster for the Satchidanandan 75th International Poetry Festival, hosted by the Kerala Literature Festival, featuring poets from various countries in 2021
A collage of headshots of various authors and scholars with their names and book titles, promoting an event related to literature and culture in India.
Kerala Literature Festival, here with K. Satchidandan, Alan Titley, Paddy Bushe, Liam Carson, the late Gabriel Rosenstock, and Conor Kostick. 2018
Kerala Literature Festival, bilingual reading of Sasquatch with the late Gabriel Rosenstock
A congratulatory announcement for Amanda Bell and Annemarie Ní Churreáin, illustrating their shortlisting for the 2018 Shine/Strong Award, featuring photos of two women, book covers of "First the Feathers" and "Bloodroot," and the Doire Press logo and contact information.
Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards with Clodagh Beresford Dunne. 'First the Feathers', the title poem of my debut collection, shortlisted for Listowel Writers Week Irish Poem of the Year 2017.
Page from a publication featuring Irish Poem of the Year winners with photos and descriptions of Seamus Heaney, Amanda Bell, John McAuliffe, Tara Bergin, and Clodagh Beresford Dunne.
In the NLI with John O'Donnell and Niall MacMonagal, 2018
At the launch of The Lost Library Book in Marsh's Library, May 2017
The background to The Lost Library Book, The Onslaught Press, 2017. Pictured here in The Irish Times with Jason McElligott, Keeper of Marsh's Library.