RECENT READINGS

15 January 2023: Guest reader at Circle Littéraire Irlandais hybrid event.

28 September 2022: Holocaust Awareness Ireland. Reading and panel discussion in Dublin Castle.

30 September 2022: Bray Literary Festival. Reading with David Butler and Nandi Jola, introduced by Anne Tannam. Watch it here.

18 June 2022: Limerick Literary Festival.

23 June 2022: Reading at Poetry Ireland, DCU, for the launch of Nithy Kasa’s debut.

13 June 2022: Cork Harbour Festival. Reading at O’Bhéal with Susan Rich.

20th April 2022: Cork World Book Festival, 8pm, Cork City Library. Reading with Nithy Kasa.

Amanda was one of the featured readers on Damien B. Donnelly’s podcast Eat the Storms Episode 10 Season 4 on 5 February 2022.

Cercle Littéraire Irlandais – Poetic New Year’s Wishes – Amanda was a featured reader at this event to celebrate the new year on 16 January.

2021

Amanda was honoured to launch Sean O’Connor’s collection Fragmentation on Sunday 14th November at 6pm, and open Strands – the exhibition of Donald Teskey’s paintings at Claremorris Gallery on Saturday 20th November.

In November, Amanda was featured on the delightful Books for Breakfast podcast with Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley.

On Sunday 31 October Amanda was part of a round table discussion on nature writing, poetry and haiku, organised by Gilles Fabre, editor of Seashores. Other participants include David J. Kelly, Jane Robinson, and Mark Roper. Details here.

13 October 2021 – Red Line Poetry Festival’s Poetry Night. I’ll be discussing Riptide at ‘New Collections’ with David Butler and Eleanor Hooker, introduced by Annnemarie Ní Churreáin

29 September 2021 at 7pm: online launch of Riptide – a joint launch with David Butler. Delighted that Maurice Devitt is launching for me. Watch it here.

16 August 2021 – ‘A Question of Freedom: Poetria Online Poetry Festival’, organised by Keralappenkavikal, The Women Poets’ Forum of Kerala.

Wexford Literary Festival, July 2021

9th May 2021 – online reading for Harold’s Cross Festival

Kerala Literature Festival, May 2021

Thursday 29th April 2021 – Poetry Day – online reading at a celebration of Issue 3.1 of The Haibun Journal

Monday 8th March 2021 – Five Lamps Arts Festival – online reading for International Women’s Day

25 February 2021 – Reading from Singing in the Dark Anthology: A Global Anthology of Poetry under Lockdown, edited by K. Satchidanandan and Nishi Chawla, for Politics and Prose Bookshop, Washington DC 

2020

May 2020 – Harold’s Cross Online Festival

2019

22 November 2019 – Ó Bhéal’s Winter Warmer Festival – bilingual reading with Gabriel Rosenstock

19 November 2019: Reading a poem by Dorothy Molloy at the launch of The Poems of Dorothy Molloy (Faber, November 2019) in Poetry Ireland

12 October: Literary Forum in Ranelagh Arts Festival, chaired by Michael O’Loughlin, with Erin Fornoff and Oisin Fagan

19th May, 3 pm: Dodder Literary Picnic. Reading with Patrick Deeley, Catherine Ann Cullen, Jean O’Brien, Peter Money and Siobhan Cuffe.

17th May, 8pm: Poetry and Music Salon, Harold’s Cross Festival, in the Education Theatre of Our  Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross. With Gabriel Rosenstock, Catherine Ann Cullen, Erin Fornoff and Ron Carey.

4th May, 8pm – Strokestown Poetry Festival. Reading with Gillian Clarke and Jane Robinson, introduced by Jane Clarke, and with music from Finbar Magee and Breige Quinn.

7 April – reading haiku with Haiku Ireland in the walled garden at the Experience Japan Festival in Farmleigh.

10 April – The Haibun Journal launched at The Teachers’ Club, and I read my piece ‘Hoppers and Daddies’.

12 April – Rathmines College. Reading poems from the Leaving Certificate English course, with poets Maeve O’Sullivan, Maurice Devitt, Adam Wyeth, Christine Broe, and Simon Coury.

16 March 2019 – I read ‘Riptide’, which was shortlisted for the Trim Poetry Competition, at the inaugural Trim Poetry Festival.

(photo: Boyne Berries)

2018

Wednesday 12 December, an evening of poetry and song in Rathmines Library with Catherine Ann Cullen, Maurice Devitt and Maeve O’Sullivan.

Thursday 22 November – the launch of The Loneliness of the Sasquatch in The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 at 6.30. Poetry and music: a reading interwoven with airs on the low whistle from Tristan Rosenstock.

Monday 19th November – I was one of the poets reading at the annual fund-raiser ‘Soundings for Simon’, The Yellow House, Rathfarnham, at 8pm.

Wednesday 10 October – I read ‘The New Road’ at the Redline Book Festival, at the launch of the Red Lines, an anthology of the first five years of the Redline Poetry Competition.

16 July at 4pm – reading with Poetry Divas Kate Dempsey and Maeve O’Sullivan, Organico Café, Bantry, West Cork.

21 July – a Friday evening reading with the Poetry Divas in the Meadery, Kinsale.

3 July – On the Nail, Limerick Writers’ Centre – lovely evening reading with Jaki McCarrick.

On 31 May I was delighted to be part of the Wild Voices Writers’ Salon curated by the wonderful Annemarie Ní Churreáin. Nine poets and a harpist responding to the words of John Moriarty. It was great treat to read with Karen J. McDonnell, Victoria Kennefick, Alice Kinsella, Faye Boland, James Martyn Joyce, Nicholas McLachlan, Stephen Murphy and Liz Quirke, and harpist Eithne Walsh.

18 May – Playing with Poetry. A delightful neighbourhood evening of poetry and music with me, Catherine Ann Cullen, Erin Fornoff, and musicians Sam Brown and Pearse McGloughlin as part of Harold’s Cross Festival in the Education Centre Theatre in Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross.

10 May – ‘Blank Page: Poets in Conversation’ with Niall MacMonagle and John O’Donnell in the National Library

Saturday 28 April at 2pm – Cork World Book Fest. It was very special to read on the theme of home and migration at ‘Here, There, and Elsewhere’ with Robyn Rowland and the brave people who currently live in Kinsale Road Accommodation Centre.

1 May – Johnston Library, Cavan – At the Edge. Lovely evening with Kate Ennals, reading with Stephanie Conn, Rosemary Jenkinson, and Ron Carey

Sunday 22 April – reading with Haiku Ireland members in Farmleigh for Japan Day – 2pm in the Walled Garden

13 April – Books Upstairs launch of Autonomy, edited by Kathy D’Arcy. I was honoured to be reading my poem ‘Moving Statues’ with a wonderful group of writers and singers including Eleanor Hooker, Anne Tannam, Annette Skade, Sinead Gleeson, Claire Hennessy, Catherine Ann Cullen,  and Deirdre Sullivan. Profits from the sale of this book will go to support those working to ensure that all women have access to the full range of reproductive healthcare, including safe, legal abortion. Here are some photos of the launch.

26 March – participating in a polyphonic reading of Joanna Walsh‘s novella Seed in Phonica 8

25 March – Shine Strong Poetry Award readings. 10.30 in DLR Lexicon

10 March – WomenXBorders Readathon in Irish Writers Centre

February – bilingual reading with Gabriel Rosenstock in Kerala Literary Festival

Sunday 28 January 2018 – reading in Books Upstairs with Maeve O’Sullivanand Brian Kirk

February 2018 – I was part of a delegation of Irish writers visiting the huge and fascinating Kerala Literary Festival

2017

Wednesday 13 December at 6.30 in Rathmines Library, an evening of readings and music with Maurice Devitt, Maeve O’Sullivan, and musician Bernadette Nic Gabhann

October/November 2017 – workshops with The Lost Library Book in schools and libraries

16 November – Dublin launch by Enda Wyley of First the Feathers (Doire Press)

I talked about debut collections and read from First the Feathers in Smock Alley on Friday 3 November 2017, as part of Dublin Book Festival, with Brian Kirk and fellow Doire Press poet Emma McKervey

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

2016

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

2015

Redline Festival Poetry Competition, Tallaght, October 2015

Elegy Karaoke organised by Irish Centre for Poetry Studies, November 2015

Canalophonic, Rathmines, May 2015

2014

Strokestown International Literature Festival, May 2014

2012

Fizzfest, Phibsborough, 2012

Participant in full reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Trinity College Dublin