Poetry File

Nick Laird reads his poem A Mixed Marriage. Nick Laird is the recipient of many prizes for his poetry and fiction, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. He is on faculty at New York University and Professor of Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast.

Julie O'Callaghan reads her poem Dictation. Born in Chicago in 1954, Julie has lived in Ireland since 1974. She has an extensive collection of published works and has received the Michael Hartnett Award for poetry. She is a member of the Irish academy of arts, Aosdána.

Philip Mc Donagh reads his poem Antigone and Pangur. Philip is Adjunct Professor at Dublin City University and Director of the Centre for Religion, Human Values, and International Relations. He has several published poetry collections and his works appear regularly in newspapers and periodicals.

Elaine Feeney reads Horse Dealers. Elaine Feeney is an Irish people poet, novelist, and playwright. Her writing focuses on "the central themes of history, national identity and state institutions and she examines how these forces structure the everyday lives of Irish women". Her work has been widely translated into Italian, Lithuanian and Slovene.

Simon Costello reads Aftermath of a Landslide. Costello’s poetry has been published in The Irish Times, The North, Poetry Ireland Review, and many more. In 2019 he was one of The Irish Time’s New Irish Writing Winners, featured in The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019-2021. He lives in Co. Offaly.

Judith Mok reads her poem In Siberia. Judith Mok was born in Bergen in the Netherlands. She has published three novels and four books of poetry as well as short stories. Her short stories have been short listed twice for the Francis Mc Manus award and her  first novel The innocents at the Circus for the Prix de l’Academie Francaise.

Declan Collinge reads his poem Harvest. Bilingual Dublin poet, Dr Declan Collinge is a former teacher and lecturer with 8 collections of poetry published. He is also a short story writer and essayist with material published in the Irish Times and Sunday Independent.

Jessamine O'Connor reads Meet Me For Coffee. Jessamine O’Connor lives on the Sligo Roscommon border and has published five chapbooks, her first collection “Silver Spoon” is with Salmon Poetry. She recently had a residency at The Dock arts centre and is completing a degree in Writing & Literature at IT Sligo.

Justin Quinn reads Re Green. Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968 and has lived in the Czech Republic since 1993. He has published several collections of poetry, most recently Shallow Seas (Gallery Press, 2020). A novel, Mount Merrion, was published by Penguin Ireland in 2013.

Nithy Kasa reads The Blouse. Nithy Kasa is a Dublin based poet from the DR Congo. She was a guest poet for Carlow University's MFA Residency 2019, shortlisted for Red Line Book Festival and published in Writing Home: The New Irish Poets. She’s read for Poetry Ireland, Ó Bhéal, RTE Poetry Programme, NUI Galway and the Royal Irish Academy