Spring/Summer 2019

July

A review of the loneliness of the sasquatchin Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, by Mary Cresswell.

A feature on The Lost Library Book and Marsh's Library here in Books Ireland.

This month Amanda attended a course on how to lead a workshop for writers, facilitated by Lynn Buckle in The Irish Writers Centre.

Poems forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review, Prole, The Ofi Press, and Skylight 47, and a new haibun and a haiku sequence accepted for Blithe Spirit by editor Caroline Skanne. My haibun 'Outlaws' is in the current issue of Presence.

A little review in July/August 2019 issue of Books Ireland

June

Here is Amanda reading 'The Sleepless' on Lyric FM's Poetry File on Saturday 1 June.

More excerpts from The loneliness of the sasquatch, translated into Romanian by Dr Olimpia Jacob, and published in Convorbiri Literare.

Two poems from First the Feathers have made their way into fine Australian journals, Backstory and Other Terrain, edited by powerhouse Anne Casey.

Amanda is delighted to have two pieces of work at UCD Festival on 8th June – a haiku from Undercurrents is featured as a rain poem, and 'Canicule', from First the Feathers, is on the Poetry Wall in the James Joyce Library.

Review of Rosita Boland's Elsewhere in the Dublin Review of Books.

May

Review of Rita Ann Higgins's Our Killer City in the Dublin Review of Books.

Excerpts from the loneliness of the sasquatchavailable as a podcast from Poetry File on RTE Lyric FM. 

Amanda is reading in Strokestown International Poetry Festival on Saturday 4th May at 8pm, with Jane Robinson and Gillian Clarke. Music from Finbar Mcgee and Breige Quinn.

Friday 17th May is the Music and Poetry Salon in Harold's Cross Festival. Amanda will be doing a bilingual reading with Gabriel Rosenstock. Other readers are Ron Carey,Catherine Ann Cullen and Erin Fornoff. Music from Pearse McGloughlin's Nocturnes.

Sunday 19th May Amanda is reading some riverine poems at the Dodder Action Group's Picnic, Dropping Well Park, Dartry at 3 pm, with Catherine Ann Cullen and Jean O'Brien.

Amanda's review of Markievicz: Prison Letters and Rebel Writings is in the May/June issue of Books Ireland.

April

Amanda will be reading haiku at Experience Japan in Farmleigh on Sunday 7th. The Haibun Journal, of which she is assistant editor, is being launched on 10 April in The Teachers' Club, and she is reading poems from the Leaving Certificate English course in Rathmines College on Friday 12th, along with poets Maeve O'Sullivan, Maurice Devitt, Christine Broe, Simon Coury and Adam Wyeth. After Easter she is delivering a paper about haibun in UCD's inaugural AWP conference on Thursday 25th April

March

The loneliness of the sasquatch has been translated into Romanian by Dr Olimpia Jacob, and published in Convorbiri Literare.

This month Amanda is looking forward to Trim Poetry Festival, and delighted to have a poem shortlisted in their poetry competition. She will also be giving workshops in Cabinteely and Blackrock Libraries (DLR) and in the Burrow School in Baldoyle.

Workshops this month in DLR libraries.