India and a poetry reading at Sahitya Akademi

While planning my trip to India (see blog page) I approached the Indian Embassy in Dublin with a view to meeting up with some Indian writers while I am in Delhi.  The end result was an invitation from Sahitya Akademi to read my work on 30th Oct and to meet with Delhi based writers afterwards.  This is such an honour and it makes my visit to India even more special.

The invitation is below but if you are unable to attend there will be a live webcast.

Spring, Summer, Autumn

Since January I have participated in six readings - details on this link.

In August I travelled to Festival dos Eidos in Galicia with a group of poets from Ó Bhéal.  A report on this is now available -   http://www.obheal.ie/blog/erasmus-ecic-partners/ecic-2018-galicia/

In March I was one of a number of invited readers at the Kanturk Arts Festival - From the Witness Box - as a warmer up for the wonderful Bernard O'Donoghue.

Also in March, I read at the WomenXBorders at the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin

As part of the Fired / Poetry Day Ireland event at the Irish Writers Museum I introduced the poetry of Dorothea Herbert along with one of my own poems. As a follow on from this event Poetry Ireland put out a call for papers to be presented at an all day seminar with a selection to be published.  My paper was accepted and I read this on 6th October as part of the Missing Voices seminar.

Thanks to Lucy Collins for this photo from the Missing Voices seminar.

On 30th October I was invited to read at Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India.  (Link to a report on this event. For further info on my journey in India refer to the India page on my blog).

Irish Poetry Reading Archive - UCD Library

My sincere thanks to Ursula Byrne and the team at UCD Special Collections UCD Library University College Dublin for including a selection of my poems as part of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive.




Eight of my readings have just been added to their YouTube channel.