Spring/Summer 2020
July
Amanda is now on the panel of Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme
Review of John McAuliffe's The Kabul Olympics in The Dublin Review of Books
My review of Ecopiety: Green Media and the dilemma of environmental virtue by Sarah McFarland Taylor in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.
Three new poems in The Blue Nib
June
Amanda's review of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet in the Dublin Review of Books
Amanda is delighted to be involved with the Fighting Words Young Storykeeper project. She has poems forthcoming in The Blue Nib and The Irish Times
May
Amanda's piece 'Contactless' is part of this episode of New Normal Culture's Keywords: Windows on RTE 1 Extra
I was delighted to curate the Harold's Cross Festival Online Poetry Reading, featuring Catherine Ann Cullen, Judith Mok, John O'Donnell, Michael O'Loughlin, Peter Sirr, Enda Wyley, and Adam Wyeth
Review of Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist in The Irish Times
Amanda's poem 'Crow' is featured here on the Mary Evans Picture Library 'Poetry and Pictures' blog
'Seawards', a haibun from Undercurrents, is featured in Stravaig #8, from the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics
April
Poems/haibun forthcoming in The Stony Thursday Book, ed. Martin Dyar, and Blithe Spirit, ed. Caroline Skanne. Review of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet forthcoming in DRB
March
Counterpointe 8, a contemporary ballet in Brooklyn NY, based on The Loneliness of the Sasquatch, has been staged by sculptor Mary Schwab and choreographer Julia Gleich in the Mark O’Donnell Theatre
