Poetry at the Mills: A night of poetry and music at Skerries Mills
- Fri 11 September, 8 pm, Skerries Mills.
- Tickets €15 on Eventbrite (plus Eventbrite fee), at Greg Reddin’s School and Office Supplies (66 Strand Street, Skerries), and a limited amount will be available at the door.
Keith Payne
Keith Payne is the author of eleven collections of poetry in translation and original poetry, most recently Savage Acres (Dedalus Press, 2025) and Building the Boat (Badly Made Books, 2023), which was featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Essay. Whales and Whales, from the Galician of Luisa Castro, was published by Skein Press in April 2024.
Awarded the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in 2025, he curates the Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill Poetry Exchange Ireland/Galicia in association with Literature Ireland, Poetry Ireland and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig.
Áine Uí Fhoghlú
Nóta Beathaisnéise Áine Uí Fhoghlú
Is as Gaeltacht na nDéise i gCo. Phort Láirge í Áine Uí Fhoghlú. Tá cúig chnuasach filíochta
foilsithe aici mar aon le seacht saothar ficsin agus cnuasach béaloidis óna ceantar dúchais.
Tá go leor gradam buaite aici as a cuid scríbhneoireachta, ina measc duaiseanna liteartha an Oireachtais, Duais Ghaeilge Bhéal na mBuillí, Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail, Gradam Mhíchil Uí Airtnéide, Gradam Markievicz agus Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh, mar aon le coimisiúin agus sparánachtaí éagsúla. Is é an cnuasach trítheangach filíochta Scéal ó Carolina / News from Carolina / Noticias de Carolina (foilsithe ag Éabhlóid) an saothar is déanaí óna peann.
About Áine Uí Fhoghlú
The poet and writer Áine Uí Fhoghlú hails from the Gaeltacht area of Waterford, the Déise. She has published five volumes of poetry to date, as well as having seven works of fiction to her name and a book of folkore as collected by her in her own native area. Her writing has earned her many accolades, including awards from Oireachtas na Gaeilge, Strokestown Poetry Festival, Listowel Writers Week, the Michael Hartnett Award, the Markievicz Award and a Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship. A trilingual volume of poetry Scéal ó Carolina / News from Carolina / Noticias de Carolina, Éabhlóid, 2026, carries the latest compositions by this poet, along with Spanish translations by Jorge Fondebrider and English translations by some of Ireland’s most reknowned poets.
Jane Clarke
Jane Clarke is the author of three poetry collections, The River (2015), When the Tree Falls (2019) and A Change in the Air (2023) published by Bloodaxe Books. She edited the
illustrated anthology Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023) and co-authored with Catherine Cleary The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature (New Island Books, 2025). Jane’s third collection, A Change in the Air, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. She has worked in community development, organisational development and psychotherapy and is now a fulltime writer. Jane lives with her wife in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow. Her fourth collection, Coracle, will be published by Bloodaxe Books in October 2026.
Keith Burke
Dublin Songwriter and Skerries native Keith Burke has released four original albums: The Dancer who Stole your Shoes in 2004, No One Wants to Move in 2008, These Boys in 2016, and in 2025 he returned with A Day to Celebrate.
Recent singles “I’ll Begin This Letter,” “Before You Go” and “That’s Where the Bees Loved to Go” have been well received and played on national and regional radio stations in Ireland and the UK, with the latter featuring on Derek Mooney’s nature show Mooney Goes Wild. See his YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and other links.
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