Residency at Literary Machine’s Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia

I’m delighted to be spending a week here in beautiful Novi Sad, on a residency as part of Literary Machine’s annual festival. The festival, which this year is on the theme of ‘I, is another’, is most ably organised by Stevan Bradic and his collaborators, and features poetry, music, discussion and debate. My thanks, too, are due to all Versopolis under whose auspices the residency was arranged. It has been an honour to spend a week in this beautiful environment, writing and thinking, listening and participating. It’s an even greater honour, of course, to have my poetry translated by Stevan into Serbian.

The Hapsburg architecture of Novi Sad.

A reading at the wonderful Zenit Bookshop.

‘Chaos Poetry’ at the equally wonderful Boulevar Books

Fellow guest poets Mariagiorgia Ulbar, Elias Herschel and Katharina Wenty.

‘Dusk and Tomatoes’ in Banshee 14

I’m delighted to have my poem ‘Dusk and Tomatoes’ published in Issue 14 of Banshee a Literary Journal. It’s an honour to be represented beside such poets as Ailbhe Darcy, Grace Wilentz, Adam Wyets, Tim Mac Gabhann and Sreee Sen. The issue, like all editions of this fine publication. is rich in essays, short stories and flash fiction, featuring a full novella, no less, from the enigmatic and inimitable Lucy Sweeney Byrne.

My thanks go to Eimear, Laura and all the Banshee team, with especial gratitude to poetry editor Jessica Traynor.

Reading and Workshop at the Féile Bheag Filíochta

I’m delighted to be heading west this weekend in order to read and a give a workshop at the famous Féile Bheag Filíochta in beautiful Ballyferriter. This is surely the biggest and best ‘little festival’ in the country, its programme being a treasure trove each year of friendship, words and music. Chuaigh mé ann don chéad uair i 2008, rud atá dochreidte dom, agus táim ag tnúth go mór leis arís i mbliana!