Poetry in Conversation Cork City Library Oct 2025

 

Bernadette Gallagher & Fiona Smith invite readers to participate in 'Poetry in Conversation'

on Thursday 30th Oct from 3 to 4:30pm in Cork City Library on the Grand Parade as they read a selection of their work.

The two poets will each read a poem and afterwards facilitator Jackie Butler will invite the audience to respond. Each member of the audience will bring their own unique perspective to the conversation.

Bernadette, Fiona and Jackie are excited to bring into being this experimental event and are eager to hear the voice of the listener.

Booking via Eventbrite 

Bernadette Gallagher is author of The Risen Tree, (Revival Press, 2024) her debut poetry collection. Her work has been published in Crannóg, Agenda, The Tablet, The Stinging Fly, The North, Stony Thursday, Southword, The Frogmore Papers, Cork University Press and in anthologies & online journals. She has received awards from the Arts Council and Cork County Council. As part of the Ó Bhéal go Béal, Bernadette has been nominated to participate in the 2025 Cork/Coventry Twin Cities Poetry Exchange.

Fiona Smith is author of A Lemming Year, (Revival Press, 2025) and Travellers of the North (Arc Publications, 2023). Her work has been published in Crannog, Dreich, Hennessy New Irish Writing, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stony Thursday Book, Southword and the anthologies Skein (Templar Poetry, 2014) and Over the Edge – The First Ten Years (Salmon Poetry, 2013). She was highly commended in the Munster Literature Centre’s Fool for Poetry competition in 2022.

Jackie Butler works as a group analyst in private practice in Cork and has many years of experience working in the arts in Ireland.