RECENT PUBLICATIONS / media

Canto I Inferno with accompanying essay ‘Three Beginnings: Versioning Dante’s Commedia, Poetry Ireland Review, winter 2024

(S)worn State(s) released by The Salvage Press (Dublin), December 2024

Circling Dante’ in Firmament, the online magazine published by Sublunary Editions

Proximities’ in The Pig’s Back

Tachyphylaxis’ in Tolka magazine

European Association of Irish Studies podcast in conversation about MOTHERBAYHOME with Adam Hanna [June 2024]

essay in The Long Poem Magazine, ‘The Irish Long Poem | The Long Poem in Ireland: Ailbhe Darcy, Christodoulos Makris, and Dimitra Xidous [launching May 11 in the Barbican Library, London]

articles on MOTHERBABYHOME and (S)worn State(s) in Études irlandaises and in Nordic Journal of Irish Studies

‘Paradoxical Kinesia’ in Somesuch Stories

Essential Material’ from Tolka magazine issue 5 now online

RECENT/UPCOMING Events

EURTERP SUMMIT keynote performance-lecture, University of York [May 20]

Lecture-performance,‘What I Say and Do About Then Changes Now’: Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K’, Florida Gulf Coast University [Feb 26]

Lecture-performance, ‘Descending into Detail: Meanwhile in Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K’, University College Cork Centre for Dante Studies Public Lecture Series [Feb 17]

Performance, Poetry Ireland Review Launch, University of Notre Dame Dublin Global Gateway, Jan 2025

(S)worn State(s) (The Salvage Press) launch December 16, Museum of Literature Ireland (Dublin)]

Reading for Stanza della Poesia, Palazzo Ducale, Genova [Dec 7]

‘Circling Translation’, a poetry reading & conversation with Nicoletta Asciuto for Writers at York, University of York [Nov 20, 5 pm]

‘Seeing through Reading: The Poet K Versions Dante’s Commedia for the Poetics Research Group’, chaired by Beatrice Carnelutti, CUNY Graduate Centre, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 [Oct 10, 4:00-5:30m room 4406]

MOTHERBABYHOME exhibited at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol at the invitation of artist Keira Greene for the screening of her film Máthair with Pass the Frame, a creative practice workshop [Oct 25, 26]

lecture-performance for Dante’s Global Female Public: Readers, Writers and Collectors, University of Warwick [Sept 12, 13]

MOTHERBABYHOME exhibited as part of Is This a Poem? curated by Christodoulos Makris for Museum of Literature Ireland (Dublin) as reviewed in Books Ireland [Feb - Sept]

reading from in-progress versioning of Dante's Commedia for Xing the Line, London [July 14]Leeds Literature Festival with Tolka magazine [June 18]

American Association of Italian Studies, Sorrento, ‘They Said Grave Words about My Future Life’: Translating Dante’s Commedia in ‘Crip Time’ [June 5-8]

‘Creative Practice, Chronic Illness, and Disability’, Medical Humanities Research Group Seminar, University of Leeds

‘Spectral Child’ roundtable at Brotherton Special Collections, w/Liz Berry and Lucy Arnold

Intersectional Humanities Seminar Series, Maynooth University

‘Writing Chronic Illness, Just in Time’, Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities Seminar

‘Poetry, Illness, and the Poetry of the Medical Humanities’, British Medical Journal Medical Humanities Podcast

Holy Show / Tolka (Dublin) reading of ‘Essential Material’ w/Rob Doyle and Megan Nolan at Pallas Projects

Ledbury Poetry Festival, w/So Mayer and Milena Williamson

Residency at RAMDOM (KORA Arts Centre, Castrignano dei Greci, Italia)

reading for Maynooth University ‘Poetry and Poetics’ series

reading for University of Leeds Poetry Centre / Leeds Litfest ‘Spring Rhythm’