Autumn/Winter 2017
I wrote an essay for the Irish Times examining the human/animal strand in First the Feathers.
Culture Ireland has generously agreed to fund my trip to Kerala Literary Festival in February.
Lovely evening of poetry and music in Rathmines Library with Maurice Devitt, Maeve O'Sullivan and Bernadette NicGabhann.
November 2017
28 November: Great night at the BGEIBAs, many thanks to Listowel Writers' Week Committee – it was a privilege to have 'Points' shortlisted as Irish Poem of the Year, along with John McAuliffe, Tara Bergin, and author of the winning poem Clodagh Beresford-Dunne.
Gabriel Rosenstock has translated 'Immortality', from First the Feathers, into Irish. Here it is on the Poetry India Facebook page.
Delighted to have my poem 'Hume Street' accepted for publication in The Interpreter's House.
Talking about 'Points' at the launch of the BGEIBAs shortlist
2 Nov – My poem 'Points', first published in The Irish Times, is shortlisted for the Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year in the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
First the Feathers was launched by Enda Wyley in Pearse Street Library, 144 Pearse Street, on 16 November at 6.30pm - thanks to everyone who came along
The BGEIBAs ceremony is on 28 November
Delighted to have two pieces in Gorse 9, to be launched on 29 November
October 2017
I participated in a reading and discussion about debut collections in Smock Alley at 1pm on Friday 3 November 2017, as part of Dublin Book Festival, with Brian Kirk and fellow Doire Press poet Emma McKervey
Primary school students have been designing some beautiful book plates at my 'Lost Library Book' workshops
Delighted with this review of Undercurrents in Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics
Had a fabulous weekend at Dromineer Literary Festival!
The cover of First the Feathers!
Looking forward to reading from it next weekend at the Dromineer Literary Festival Launching Party
September 2017
Lovely review of The Lost Library Book in CBI's Inis Reading Guide:
22-24 September 2017, CBI's fabulous annual conference - honoured to be presenting The Lost Library Book on the New Voices panel
First the Feathers has gone to the printers, in good time for the Dromineer Literary Festival Launching Party on 7th October
Presenting The Lost Library Book on the New Voices panel, CBI conference, next weekend.
Reading at Staccato on 13th September with fellow Hibernian Brian Kirk and others
'Striking Out', a haibun from my collection, is in the new issue of Haibun Today
Poems forthcoming this autumn: 'Moon' and 'The New Road' in Banshee 5, 'Seedlings' and Urban Foraging' in Gorse 9, 'Immortality' in Skylight 47, 'Mount Jerome' in Crannóg 46
Two haiku from Undercurrents are to be included in an anthology of women's haiku, edited by Roberta Beary, Ellen Compton, and Kala Ramesh.
