Autumn/Winter 2023

Amanda was awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council to continue working on historical fiction. She has poems forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review and Banshee.

Winter Heliotrope, a fine art book of Donald Teskey's paintings and Amanda's poems about the Dodder, published by Fine Press Poetry, was launched in the RHA on 6 December.

Amanda introduced Gabriel Rosenstock's chapbook Honey Served on Thorns: A Commemorative Chapbook for Lola Ridge in the Eblana Club, Dún Laoighre, on 14 December at 19.30.

Amanda launched Jeremy Haworth's fine haibun collection Four Season Farm in The Teachers' Club on 29 November.

'Objects in an Abandoned Handbag', from Winter Heliotrope, was published in The Irish Times on 18 November.

Amanda's essay 'A Reflection on Vermeer, Ekphrasis, and Seemingly Random Inclusions' is forthcoming in Blithe Spirit in February 2024.