Autumn/Winter 2019/2020
February 2020
Amanda is spending a week in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, this month, redrafting her YA novel and working on some poems for her new collection.
January 2020
Review of Robert Macfarlane's Underland in the Dublin Review of Books
December 2019
Amanda's poem 'Xmas' is in Poetry Ireland Review 129, launching on 12th December, and being podcast by Poetry Ireland later this month
'Winter Citrus' from First the Feathers is featured on RTE's The Poetry Programme, being broadcast on Christmas Day at 7pm
Amanda's novel Wolf Mountain is a runner-up for The Irish Writers Centre 2020 Novel Fair
Review of Mary Noonan's Stone Girl, in the Dublin Review of Books
A short review of Robert Macfarlane's Ness in The Irish Times
November 2019
The loneliness of the sasquatch
translated into Romanian
by Dr Olimpia Jacob
Review of Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing in the Dublin Review of Books
Amanda will be reading a poem by Dorothy Molloy at the launch of The Poems of Dorothy Molloy (Faber) on 19th November in Poetry Ireland
22 November - reading with Gabriel Rosenstock and Danielle McLoughlin at Ó Bhéal's Winter Warmer in the Krino, Cork
October 2019
Review of Kathleen Jamie's Surfacing (Sort of Books, September 2019) is in The Irish Times on Saturday 12th.
Ranelagh Arts Festival – literary discussion panel chaired by Michael O'Loughlin, with Erin Fornoff, Ailbhe Smith, and Oisin Fagan.
Amanda is recording eight poems for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive in UCD.
September 2019
Review of Don't Touch My Hair on the DRB website. Poems forthcoming in Boyne Berries, Angle 2, Channel, Poetry Ireland Review and Ofi Press.
