Doire Press on Tour!

Tonight, I headed to Kilkenny for the first of the Doire Press Reading Events with David Butler and Annemarie NíCurrain. It took place in the lovely Stone House Bookshop. After buying and reading Annemarie’s poems, it was great to get a further insight to the poems and she told us the background to some that […]

Debut Collections

I went to Dublin to see Brian Kirk, Emma McKervey and Amanda Bell read from their respective first collections. Lisa Frank from Doire Press interviewed the three poets and each read a couple of poems from their collections. I also took a visit to Books Upstairs and bought three more books.

Viva Los Gatos!

I had a great time in California over the last week with a trip supported by Culture Ireland to the Los Gatos Irish Literary Festival. I spend 4 and a half days in sunny California hanging out with some of Ireland’s best writers. I was involved in two events: the representation of Jews in Irish […]

California-bound

I have been asked to be one of the 16 Irish writers to travel to Los Gatos in California for the 2017 Irish Writers’ Festival. I will be taking part in two readings/discussions. The first is centred around the touring of the Representation of Jews in Irish Literature, which will be exhibited. The second is a reading for New […]

Bryan Cheyette Lecture

I attended an interesting lecture about Jews in Irish Literature, including “metaphorical” Jews, by Bryan Cheyette in Trinity College. I had heard about the talk as he mentioned that he was going to mention Jewtown. Bryan had a theory that my poem “Patched Up” which featured a boy called Sweeney and T.S. Elliot’s Jew-hating character, […]