Tuesday 11th February 2025, The Back Page, Phibsborough

This coming Tuesday 11th February in The Back Page, Phibsborough, I’ll be joining a brilliant line up of poets including Sean Walsh and Lewis Kenny and of course hosted by the brilliant Kev Kennedy.

Saturday 12th April 2025 University of Limerick Creative Writing Festival

Really honoured and excited to be performing at the UK creative writing festival this year. Word on the Street is presented by the Irish Writers Centre will be on Saturday 12th April and I’ll be performing alongside Kev Kennedy, Lauren McNamara and Cormac Mac Gearailt. Thanks so much to Damien Donnelly and everyone at the Irish Writers Centre for the opportunity.

Rising Tide Events 2025

Rising Tide’s collaboration with UNESCO Dublin City of Literature is up and at it in 2025.

We’re presenting two poetry events for the One Dublin One Book programme in April, one in Tallaght library and one in Pearse Street library.

In May, we’ll be hosting the poetry slam to choose Dublin’s entry for this years Slamovision at the International Literature Festival Dublin in Merrion Square.

The Leinster Poetry Slam will be back next September in Sin É and in October and December we’ll have two more great line-ups of the best of the Irish spoken word scene.

Follow @rising.tide.events on instagram for updates.

here’s a couple of last years amazing line-ups!

2023 Performance Dates

SCEAL Balbriggan Open Mic (Venue TBC) 2nd February 2023 8.30 pm

Swords Spoken Word Night by @thedublinwriter (Venue TBC) 2nd March 2023 7.45 pm

Fingal Poetry Festival 2021

We had a brilliant night at the Fingal Poetry Festival’s first ever poetry slam! It was the first live event in a long time for most people there, performing and in the audience and we created a buzz (or collective effervescence) to be proud of. Carla Beattie was the winner, Partridge Boswell was second and Joseph Mackey was third. All twelve poets participating were amazing. The music by Eimear O Sullivan was gorgeous and John Cummins was as ever, just brilliant. The way he moves through his words and poetry interacting with audience as he goes is so natural and inspiring for me who is still learning how to manoeuvre the magic between performance and poetry.

Thanks to all the festival committee and volunteers for organising everything and giving us all the opportunity of performing. Hopefully it will be the first of many Fingal Poetry Slams!