Readings
Forthcoming
I will be reading from First the Feathers in Smock Alley on Friday 3 November 2017 at 1pm, as part of Dublin Book Festival, with Brian Kirk and fellow Doire Press poet Emma McKervey
October/November 2017 – workshops with The Lost Library Book in schools and libraries
16 November – Dublin launch of First the Feathers (Doire Press)
Recent
7 October 2017 – reading from First the Feathers at The Launch Party, Dromineer Literary Festival
13 September 2017 – reading at Staccato in Toner’s of Baggot Street
23 September – presenting The Lost Library Book in ‘New Voices’ session at Children’s Books Ireland’s annual conference
August 2017 -– presenting The Lost Library Book at Louisburgh Festival
June 2017 – school workshops with The Lost Library Book
The Lost Library Book was launched by His Grace Archbishop Michael Jackson on Saturday 20th May in Marsh’s Library.
10 May: The Lost Library Book workshop at Rathfarnham Educate Together National School
13th and 14th May – Harold’s Cross Festival – presenting The Lost Library Book
31st May in Wexford and Enniscorthy Public Libraries for The Lost Library Book workshops
I launched Sean O’Connor’s collection Even the Mountains at The Teachers’ Club, 37 Parnell Square, on Poetry Day, 27th April
April 2017 – reading with Haiku Ireland and the Irish Haiku Society in the walled garden at Farmleigh for Japan Day, 23rd April
11 March 2017 – Participated in the Readathon for International Women’s Day in the Irish Writers’ Centre
27 February 2017 – guest reader at Ó Bhéal
Monday 14th November 2016, Soundings for Simon, in aid of the Simon Community.
Canalophonic Festival, reading with Christine Broe in Rathmines Library, September 2016
Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, Irish Writers’ Centre, 23 May 2016
Munster Literature Festival Prebooked Readings, 13 February 2016
Readings with Haiku Ireland and Irish Haiku Society, Japan Day, Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, April 2016
Redline Festival Poetry Competition, Tallaght, October 2015
Elegy Karaoke organised by Irish Centre for Poetry Studies, November 2015
Canalophonic, Rathmines, May 2015
Strokestown International Literature Festival, May 2014
Fizzfest, Phibsborough, 2012
Participant in full reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Trinity College Dublin
Awards
2017
April – Undercurrents was awarded second prize by the Haiku Society of America for the Kanterman Merit Book Award, and shortlisted for the Haiku Foundation‘s Touchstone Distinguished Book Award, which “is bestowed annually on published collections of poems, or works of scholarship, that represent noteworthy contributions to English-language haiku in the estimation of a distinguished panel of poets, editors and scholars.”
2016
Dromineer Poetry Competition, 3rd prize for ‘Through the Looking Glass’, October 2016
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2016, highly commended, October 2016
Boyle Poetry Competition 2016, ‘Dreaming’ commended (Boyle Arts 2016)
Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition 2016, ‘Sindhura, Andalusia’ highly commended
2015
Allingham Poetry Competition 2015 (first prize for ‘First the Feathers’, shortlisted for ‘Sourdough’, judge Jane Clarke)
‘Hero’ shortlisted for the Francis Ledwidge Award
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2015 (highly commended for collection Sourdough)
Redline Poetry Competition 2015 (‘The New Road’ shortlisted, judge Enda Wyley)
Fish Short Memoir Prize 2015 (shortlist)
The Rialto/RSPB Poetry Competition 2015 (longlist, ‘First the Feathers’)
2014
Strokestown International Poetry Prize 2014 (‘The Darkness’, shortlist, judges Neil Astley and Paddy Bushe) (see here)
The Free Wee Library Poetry Competition 2014 (‘Polytunnel’, 2nd prize)
Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014 (shortlist, judge Martin Dyar)
