Ardgillan Poetry Walk 2024
Siúlóid Filíochta Tríd an Choill
Let’s close the festival in chilled, Sunday morning style with another firm favourite! Led by poet Damien B. Donnelly, we’ll meet at the Coffee Dock in the upper car park for a stroll through the high woods where, as well as that spectacular view, we’ll be treated to fine poetry from Damien and music by our wandering troubadour Mick Morris.
Críoch iontach é seo d’fhéile iontach. Siúl linn, éist le filíocht & ceol na n-éan i dteannta le filíocht & ceol ár n-aíonna.
Finishing up with poems in the Library of Ardgillan Castle by our final featured reader, poet Brian Kirk, with more music from Mick Morris, and an optional visit to the castle Gallery before leaving.
As always on our Poetry Walks, all participants are invited to bring a poem by themselves, or anyone they fancy, for sharing.
- Venue: Ardgillan Grounds and Castle
- Meeting Place: Coffee Dock, upper car park
- Date and time: Sunday / Dé Domhnaigh 15/09/2024, 11 am to 12.30 pm (approximately)
- Bilingual, live music.
- Free, but ticketed. Reserve your space on Eventbrite.
There will be some spaces available on the day, come early!
The final event of the 2024 Fingal Poetry Festival!
Damien B. Donnelly
Damien B. Donnelly is the award-winning author of the poetry pamphlet Eat the Storms, a Stickleback micro-collection & the conversational pamphlet In the Jitterfritz of Neon, co-written by Eilín de Paor, all published by Hedgehog Poetry Press who also published his first full collection Enough! in August 2022. He’s the host & producer of Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast and EIC of The Storms, a printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art. His work appears in various journals, online & in print. His second collection, Back from Away, was published by Turas Press, May 2024.
Mick Morris
Dublin born Mick Morris has been writing and performing music for over 20 years. He has written and recorded as a member of The West Seventies with whom he has recorded an E.P. and 2 full studio albums performing at SXSW in Austin, Texas. He has also recently performed, recorded and produced a folk album and toured extensively in Europe with The Band of Moonlight Love. He is currently recording a solo album of original work. In between working on these projects and regular residencies, he is collaborating on a new project composing and writing a musical based in historic Dublin.
You can hear Mick’s music on his YouTube channel.
Brian Kirk
Brian Kirk has published two collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry, After The Fall (2017) and Hare’s Breath (2023). His poem “Birthday” won the Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2018. His short fiction chapbook It’s Not Me, It’s You won the Southword Fiction Chapbook Competition and was published by Southword Editions in 2019.
He is a recipient of Professional Development and Agility Awards from the Arts
Council of Ireland. His novel Riverrun was chosen as a winner of the Irish Writers Centre
Novel Fair 2022 and was shortlisted for the Spotlight First Novel Award 2023. His poetry has been published in the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Abridged, Skylight 47, Crannóg and many others, and has been featured on The Poetry Programme, RTÉ Radio One and the Words Lightly Spoken. Brian has been a guest author and hosted events at literary festivals around the country including Dublin Book Festival, Listowel Writers’ Week, Red Line Book Festival, Cork Short Story Festival, Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Poetry Festival, Belfast Book Festival and Bray Literary Festival.
Close the festival on Sunday morning with a stroll through the High Woods , led by Damien B. Donnelly. Music by Mick Morris. Poetry: Brian Kirk
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