News & Events

2024

MOTHERBABYHOME exhibited as part of Is This a Poem? curated by Christodoulos Makris for Museum of Literature Dublin [Feb - July]

reading for Xing the Line, London [July 14]

Leeds Literature Festival with Tolka magazine [June 18]

American Association of Italian Studies, Sorrento, ‘They Said Grave Words about My Future Life’: Translating Dante’s Commedia in ‘Crip Time’ [June 5-8]

essay in The Long Poem Magazine, ‘The Irish Long Poem | The Long Poem in Ireland: Ailbhe Darcy, Christodoulos Makris, and Dimitra Xidous (launching May in the Barbican Library) [May 11]

Inaugural Professorial Lecture ‘Words Change States’: The Public Poet, University of Leeds / National Poetry Centre [May 2]

articles on MOTHERBABYHOME and (S)worn State(s) in Études irlandaises and in Nordic Journal of Irish Studies

‘Creative Practice, Chronic Illness, and Disability’, Medical Humanities Research Group Seminar, University of Leeds

2023

‘Paradoxical Kinesia’ in Somesuch Stories

‘Spectral Child’ roundtable at Brotherton Special Collections, w/Liz Berry and Lucy Arnold

Intersectional Humanities Seminar Series, Maynooth University

‘Writing Chronic Illness, Just in Time’, Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities Seminar

‘Poetry, Illness, and the Poetry of the Medical Humanities’, British Medical Journal Medical Humanities Podcast

Holy Show / Tolka (Dublin) reading w/Rob Doyle and Megan Nolan at Pallas Projects

Ledbury Poetry Festival, w/So Mayer and Milena Williamson

Residency at RAMDOM (KORA Arts Centre, Castrignano dei Greci, Italia)

reading for Maynooth University ‘Poetry and Poetics’ series

reading for University of Leeds Poetry Centre / Leeds Litfest ‘Spring Rhythm’

2022

A Single Rose: festival celebrating the centenary of Leland Bardwell, Model Arts Centre, Sligo, w/Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Victoria Kennefick

One Island, performance-installation at Wasmer Art Gallery (USA) with Ghostbird Theatre Company

Launch of sorry that you were not moved with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media

Poetry and Distraction, a reading for The White Review w/Caleb Klaces

2021

University of Leeds Poetry Centre Showcase, Ilkley Literature Festival

Gala Reading from Poetic Declaration, Ripples of Hope Festival (Robert F Kennedy Foundation), HOME Manchester

Poetry Circle with Simon Armitage, Ripples of Hope Festival (Robert F Kennedy Foundation), HOME Manchester

IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) Summer School

Come Let the Blazing Truth Blind: Poetic Responses to the Legacy of Ireland’s Religious-run Institutions

Article by Fran Lock in Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry