Spring/Summer 2017
August
Books@One's inaugural Literary Festival in Louisburgh 17-20 August. I'll be reading from The Lost Library Book in the library at 2pm on Friday 18th.
July
Some poem films on Vimeo: 'Points', 'Cockle Picking' and 'The Ballad of Mary Anne Cadden'
'Points', from forthcoming collection First the Feathers (Doire Press, November 2017) was The Saturday Poem in The Irish Times, 22 July 2017
A new haibun, 'Striking Out', forthcoming in Haibun Today
Two poems accepted for Issue 5 of Banshee
Becky Long's lovely review of The Lost Library Book in Inis
My film of 'The Ballad of Mary Anne Cadden' is now on vimeo
June
Here I am in CBI's line-up for the conference this September
23 June – In today's Irish Times, Frank McNally's Irishman's Diary is about Marsh's Library, the exhibition 'Hunting Stolen Books', and The Lost Library Book
Delighted to have a couple of haibun accepted by Christodoulos Makris for Gorse 9
Primary school workshops with The Lost Library Book
The Lost Library Book featured in Sarah Webb's Children's Books Summer Special in The Irish Independent on 10 June
May
The Lost Library Book was launched by His Grace, Archbishop Michael Jackson on Saturday 20th May in Marsh's Library, and sold out all the stock on the day. There are plenty more on the way, and I will be talking about the book at the following venues this month:
31 May: Wexford and Enniscorthy Public Libraries
10 May: Rathfarnham Educate Together National School
13th May at 2pm on Saturday 13th in Our Lady's Hospice Rose Garden, as part of Harold's Cross Festival.
14th May at 3pm on Sunday 14th in the army tent in Harold's Cross Park, as part of Harold's Cross Festival.
8 May 2017 – My poem 'Why Ajo Blanco? has been accepted by The Curlew.
3 May 2017 – 'A Ghazal of Exodus' is in the new issue of The Stinging Fly
April
18 April – Undercurrents has been awarded joint second prize by the Haiku Society of America for the 2016 Merit Book Award, a.k.a. Kanterman Award.
Sara Keating's feature in The Irish Times, Saturday 15th April, all about The Lost Library Book:
"[The Lost Library Book is] ... romantic in its celebration of knowledge and the artefact of the physical book; an idea that is greatly enhanced by Alice Durand-Wietzel’s romantic illustrations. It is a great story that children, and their parents, will delight in reading, and its happy ending is, indeed, the stuff of fairytales."
My poem A Small Attendance in issue 12 of The Incubator, 15th April 2017
I will be reading in the walled garden in Farmleigh on Japan Day (23rd April) with Haiku Ireland and the Irish Haiku Society, along with fellow Touchstone shortlistee Sean O'Connor, and it is an honour to be launching Sean's book, Even the Mountains, on Poetry Day (27th April) in The Teachers' Club, 37 Parnell Square. We are both featured in The Nenagh Guardian this week.
Brian Hutton's feature about The Lost Library Book in the local quarterly.
My poem 'Cochlea' in the new issue of Skylight 47
Honoured that Undercurrents has been shortlisted for the Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. We have just gone into a third print-run.
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March
I was interviewed by Anna Mooney about being published in your forties, for Aisling Grimley's excellent website My Second Spring.
11 March - a great day at The Irish Writers' Centre for the International Women's Day Readathon with Women Aloud NI
My article about The Lost Library Book is featured in the March/April issue of Books Ireland
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The brilliant Numéro Cinq features my childhood memoir in the March edition - read it here:- Bad Weather Days
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February
Reading at Ó Bhéal for the first time on Monday 27th February was a wonderful experience - lovely crowd, great hospitality, and delighted also with this piece by Deasúin MacBraoin in the Evening Echo
