Autumn/Winter 2025/26

Amanda has been awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council to work on her new poetry collection, forthcoming from Doire Press in Spring 2027. On the Winter Solstice she read her poem 'Solstice' and a sequence of winter haiku at the Kingfisher Project. She has been invited by artist Caroline McCambridge to respond to a postcard prompt from fallingfaintlyfaintlyfalling for an exhibition in Finch Gallery, London Fields – her poem ' Dodder Walk, 31 October' will be read by artist Siobhan McAuley at the launch on 17th January.

New work appears in Presence and The Stony Thursday Book, and is forthcoming in Blithe Spirit 36.1 in February 2026. Seen here at the launch of the new Sunday Miscellany anthology, which includes her piece 'Visible Mending', commissioned by Holocaust Awareness Ireland. (Photographed with Enda Wyley, by John McElroy.)