Spring 2021

Amanda has new work in Abridged, cattails, Presence, and Seashores. She ran an online course called ‘A Sense of Place: Discover Harold’s Cross through Creative Writing’ from February to March.

Planning has started for Harolds Cross Festival, and Amanda is curating a poetry reading on Saturday 8th May. '8 x 5: The Poetry Line', will be available on the haroldscross.org website, and features Catherine Ann Cullen, Maggie O'Dwyer, Gerard Smyth, Enda Wyley, Peter Sirr, Michael O'Loughlin, and Gilles Fabre. https://youtu.be/hX2SsQIlrws

On Poetry Day Ireland, 29 April 2021, Amanda was delighted to participate in the Haibun High Tea – watch it here: https://youtu.be/w0r0XxIUnPE

She is also curating a showcase by participants from her writing course, 'A Sense of Place', for the festival. https://youtu.be/dInQp8JZgW4

Amanda was delighted to read in Washington DC (via Zoom) at Politics and Prose Bookstore, at the invitation of Nishi Chawla and  K. Satchidanandan, to promote the anthologySinging in the Dark: A Global Anthology of Poetry Under Lockdown. Great to read alongside Nishi and Satchi, and also Sudeep Sen,  Max Garland, Barbara Oppenheimar, Amir Or, Diane Wilbon Parks, Yiorgos Chouliaras, and Stanley Barkan.