Behind the Scene

The Story House is an Irish residential writing centre, inspired by the legendary week-long residential writing courses offered by The Arvon Foundation in the UK, where students of the written word can immerse themselves in the creative…

The Cork International Poetry Festival (10-13 February) kicks off the Irish literary calendar for the year and the poetry aficionados of Ireland and beyond will descend on the city to witness some of the most exciting voices in the world of…

Susan Millar DuMars has published three collections with Salmon Poetry, the most recent of which, The God Thing, appeared in March, 2013.  Bone Fire will be published by Salmon in Spring, 2016.  Our Galway correspondent Meabh Ann had the…

Hollie McNish is an unstoppable poetic force. Her videos have gone viral and her words have touched people in every corner of the world. Hailing from the UK, she has performed on stages just about everywhere. Her poetry has been noticed by…

The first time I saw Paul Timoney he was standing on a chair in the middle of at least a hundred teenagers pretending to be a talking shoe. I watched as he leant down and a young woman giggled helplessly as he spoke the rhyming words at…

I’m all about the poetry readings, but sometimes there’s a poetry reading that you know is going to beat all the other ones deep down into the ground. Not because the poets will be armed, or at least not violently speaking, but because they…

Just a Second is a collection of five of mini plays on global issues that has been published by Afri. It will be launched in Dublin Liberty Hall on Thursday August 5th at 6.30pm. Run by Pete Mullineaux, one of the warmest poets rocking…

I went to The Monday Echo’s second comeback show on the 9th June at MVP and I nearly cried because there was a familiar cosiness that radiated from the packed room. I had missed it. There were these beautiful, lullaby-like tunes played by…

The arts need support; that’s fundamental. We need to pay artists what they deserve and we need to give more of these kind of platforms. Everybody should come and see Lingo – it’s gonna be brilliant!” Last year saw Lingo take pride of…

Dublin’s spoken word scene is going from strength to strength, with established nights such as the previously featured Slam Sunday inspiring more writers to take to the mic. One such initiative is Flying South, a mental health-themed event…