My article 'Why Uncomplicated Recovery isn't Enough: Rhoda Coghill, her Letters, and the Fired! Movement' in The Honest Ulsterman journal (see below posts) is now also available at the RASCAL archive of Fired! - along with an absolute treasure trove of material on forgotten women in Irish poetry. This is an archive of inestimable importance for everyone seeking to address inequalities and imbalances in the canon of Irish literature.
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In this interview from June 2020 I explore many of my ideas around 'Cell', #wakeupirishpoetry, and the ongoing work of challenging inadequate standards and protections for workers in the arts in Ireland.
The open letter calling for acceptable standards of ethics and governance in the Irish arts sector is still available at wakeupirishpoetry.ie - please visit the site and add your name. We have so much work still to do. Watch 'Cell' at the Half Moon Festival here - and see below for details about this online, collaborative multimedia project.
I have a new piece in the Honest Ulsterman journal from today, discussing the ongoing issue of inequalities and power imbalances in Irish poetry publishing - as well as looking at some of the letters of the beautiful, forgotten Irish poet and composer Rhoda Coghill, who seemed to know during her lifetime that she would be erased from the history of Irish literature. Writing this was painful but necessary. Read it online here.
At the end of last year I received my doctorate in Creative Writing in UCC - thanks to the generous support of the Irish Research Council :)
My thesis takes the form of a long experimental sequence reimagining Irish mythohistory with the silenced and erased voices of women to the fore at last. 'Cell,' a kind of climax within the piece, will be presented as a new multimedia piece in collaboration with visual artist Emer Kiely and musician and sound producer Gadget and the Cloud. Please take a look and a listen from June 27th at the link below, and check out the rest of this great new festival! Festival website: https://www.halfmoonfest.com/ Cell event: https://www.halfmoonfest.com/events/cell Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/653893295163783/ |
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