NEWS
Use the Words You Have, my debut novel, is the inaugural publication from Somesuch Editions, the imprint of BAFTA and Oscar-winning production company Somesuch – publishing June 23 2025.
An Interesting Detail joins Bloomsbury Poetry’s list edited by Kayo Chingonyi – publishing April 24 2025
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
European Association of Irish Studies podcast in conversation about MOTHERBAYHOME with Adam Hanna
articles on MOTHERBABYHOME and (S)worn State(s) in Études irlandaises and in Nordic Journal of Irish Studies
‘Essential Material’ from Tolka magazine issue 5 now online
EVENTS
2025
‘Disarticulating the Digital: Extraordinary Power tra i Confini’, a lecture-performance, Society for Italian Studies themed conference: Italian Studies at the Digital Turn. Practice, Methods, Interdisciplinarity, University of Leeds [June 24]
lunchtime reading for York Centre for Writing, with Hasib Hourani [June 5]
‘Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need’, EUTERPE SUMMIT Susan Stanford Friedman Memorial Keynote performance-lecture, University of York [May 20]
launch of An Interesting Detail (Bloomsbury Poetry), Rise @ Bluebird Bakery, Acomb, York [May 9]
Reading with Sascha Aurora Akhtar, University of Sheffield Centre for Poetry and Poetics [May 7]
Northern Lights IN/FORM with Caroline Bergvall, Nasser Hussain, JR Carpenter, and more, HEART Centre, Headingley, Leeds [March 28]
Lecture-performance, ‘A floating thing, a seed with wings: A performance from This Knot a new version of Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K’, Florida Gulf Coast University, [Feb 26 & 27]
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 21]
2024
(S)worn State(s) (The Salvage Press), launch Dec 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]