Spring/Summer 2025

Amanda's collection Undercurrents (Alba Publishing, 2016) is selected as Book of the Week at The Haiku Foundation.Thanks to poet and digital librarian Dan Cm[bell for his thoughtful essay: "Amanda Bell’s Undercurrents isn’t the kind of poetry collection that shouts for your attention—it quietly draws you in, like the soft murmur of water in the background. It’s the kind of book that asks you to slow down, sit still for a moment, and tune into the gentle rhythm of both nature and memory. In this collection of haiku and haibun, Bell creates a thoughtful link between Irish rivers and the deeper currents of memory and emotion, weaving them together with quiet grace."

Three of Amanda's poems feature in Live Encounters, which you can read here.

Amanda read haiku and poetry at the Kingfisher Hub for the Summer Solstice, with songs from Catherine Ann Cullen.

'Waking to More of the Same, 1 January 2024' was chosen by Dave Rudden for The Prompt, RTE Radio 1, created and produced by Zoe Comyns.

'Moving Statues', from First the Feathers (Doire Press, 2017) was broadcast on Poetry, People, RTE Radio 1, to commemorate thirty years since 1985.

At Harold's Cross Festival Amanda is curating a reading of local poets on Thursday 15 May 19.30-21.00. Featured readers are Alicia Byrne Keane, Gilles Fabre, Maggie O'Dwyer, Michael O'Loughlin, Peter Sirr, Gerry Smyth, and Enda Wyley. 

Amanda's poem 'Light Years' features in Washing Windows V, Arlen House. She was delighted to read it at the launch at Strokestown International Poetry Festival on 3 May.

'Flotsam', Amanda's reading from Undercurrents (Alba, 2016) is now live on the Dublin Discovery Trails app, with thanks to Rosie O'Reilly, DCC's Biodiversity Artist in Residence. Download the app to listen.

Amanda's poem 'Nun Cho Ga' is in Issue 3 of The Four Faced Liar.