Events
2019
Reading at the Carlow Writers’ Co-Operative
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Culture Night September
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Frankfield Cork September
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2019 Blackwater International Poetry Festival August
With visiting poets at the English Market in Cork
At the Poet’s Breakfast
With Welsh poet Patrick Lodge and US poet Mark O’Brien
With Northern Irish poet Lynda Tavakoli
With Dublin poet Eithne Lannon
With Slovenian poet Dr Glorjana Veber
With Norwegian poet Monica Aasprong at the
Officially opening the 2019 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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Interview at WLR FM July
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Reading for the residents at The Westgate Foundation, Cork July
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Lecturing to students at St Andrew’s College South Africa June
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With poetry students at Rhodes University Grahamstown South Africa 2019
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Following my lecture to students at Gadra Grahamstown South Africa
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National Poetry Day Mallow May
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Kalamazooo, Michigan May
American poet Andrea England
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Percy French Remembered festival Cork April
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The launch of Flaking the Rope Ireland March
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Kanturk Arts Festival 2019 March
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The launch of Flaking the Rope Boston
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The launch of the student anthology Inclusion at the 2014 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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Live broadcast to the US at the 2014 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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With Lydia Browne the winner of the children’s competition at the 2017 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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The launch of Fathers and what must be said
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With Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud at the 2015 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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At the launch of the anthology The Sea Dublin 2017
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Launch of Unfinished Business 2013
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Newspaper headline 2014 re the Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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The Poetry Trail at the 2015 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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Following my poetry workshops with asylum seekers in 2011 Rebel Poetry published a collection of their poems called Silent Voices
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Dublin 2018
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Remembering the Present
Following my workshops with numerous active retirement groups in north Cork in 2011, a collection of members poems called Remembering the Present was published.
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Following my poetry workshops with students an anthology called Inclusion was published by Rebel Poetry at the 2012 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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At the launch of Startled By You by Maria Ní Mhurchú 2017
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With the winners of the children’s 2017 poetry competition and Sean Donnellan
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The official opening of the 2012 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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Blackwater International Poetry Festival 2015
With poets Tsead Bruinja, Holland, Alexander Hutchison, Scotland and Martin Reints Holland.
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Workshop at Mitchelstown Library
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Austin Texas 2015
With poet Bradley R. Strahan
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With Dutch poet Tsead Bruinja at the Blackwater International Poetry Festival 2015
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Student anthology launch at the 2015 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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Poetry International Rotterdam 2015
Habib Tengour, Algeria
Monica Aasprong – Norway
Adam Dickinson – Canada
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Rahovec Kosovo 2015
Professor Mohammad Ikbal Harb, Lebanon
Professor Nizar Sartawi – Jordan
Mustafa Spahiu – Macedonia
Etleva Tafa – Albania
Denisa Duran – Romania Amir Or – Israel
Adrian Grima – Malta
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The official opening of the 2013 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
Professor Pat Crotty
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The launch of sonoffred Texas 2015
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St Lucia 2014
With poet Derek Walcott
Reading in St Lucia.
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With the 2014 Blackwater International Poetry Festival competition winner Professor Daniel Roy Connolly – Italy
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Reading at The Poetry Trail at the 2016 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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With poet Professor Pat Crotty at the Blackwater International Poetry Festival 2013
Knute Skinner – USA
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With Dublin poet Anne Tannam at her book launch at the 5,000 year old wedge tomb Leaba Chaillí (Hag’s Bed) during the 2017 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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Blackwater International Poetry Festival
Fred Johnston – Ireland
Patrick Lodge – Wales
Miceál Kearney – Ireland
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Presenting the prizes to the winners of the poetry competition
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With the winning students at the 2015 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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Dublin 2018
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With poet Ronnie McGinn who officially opened the 2017 Blackwater International Poetry Festival
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Gene Barry Poet 