Autumn/Winter 2024

Amanda's essay on Vermeer ('A Reflection on Vermeer, Ekphrasis, and Deceptively Random Inclusions', Blithe Spirit34.1) has been selected for inclusion in the Red Moon Anthology of English-language Haiku, 2024.

'Visible Mending', Amanda's response to The Objects of Love exhibition, commissioned by Holocaust Awareness Ireland, was broadcast on Sunday Miscellany on 26th January – you can listen to it here.

Amanda's haibun 'Holiday Home' is published in the new issue of Contemporary Haibun Online, edited by Terri French. It has been nominated by the CHO team for a Touchstone Award and for the Red Moon Anthology. Her poem 'Spindles' is in the December issue of Ink, Sweat & Tears.

She also has work in the autumn/winter issues of The Haibun Journal, The Storms, The Four Faced Liar, and Blithe Spirit. She recorded a haibun called 'The Oldcastle Bell' for Sunday Miscellany, which was broadcast on 3 November.

In late November she was honoured to launch Bumblebees, Sages and Friends by Liz Norris, her mentee from the Irish Writers Centre, and to MC the launch of Where All Ladders Start by her fellow Hibernian Maeve O'Sullivan.

Amanda was delighted to be involved with working on the text of Early Morning Firefly: An adaptation of the Japanese Saijiki, by Gilles Fabre (Fishing Cat Press). Launch details to follow in the new year.

Her river haibun and haiku are featured in the Abhainn Project by Dublin City Council's Biodiversity Artist in Residence, Rosie O'Reilly. A reading from Undercurrents will be part of a sound walk app of the River Poddle, and Undercurrents will be part of Dublin City Council's permanent river archive. The book has just been reprinted and can be ordered through the contact form.