… and this year I’ve got two gigs!
Come along to the DeValera Library to hear Sarah Clancy grill me, Erin Fornoff, and Molly Twomey about all things poetic. Seriously, this will be a good way to pass an hour on a Friday afternoon. The three of us offer a good variety of style and work, and Sarah will get the best out of us. That’s 6 March from 4pm to 5pm.
THEN – second gig is one of favourite things in the world!
RTÉ Radio is back in the Banner County to do a live recording of Sunday Miscellany.
I got one piece of work written at Annaghmakerrig before Christmas – and before I had to leave the place because I had a really bad dose of flu. It was a personal small essay that I thought would suit Sunday Miscellany, and I held off sending it to them until I knew if they were coming to Ennis this year.
They were, and producer Sarah Binchy liked the piece – so I’ll be reading it, along with a mighty line-up – on Sunday morning. The recording will air over the next couple of weeks, depending on how much material they get. This one means a lot to me. But I also can’t believe that I’ll share a stage with one of my writing heroes, Anne Enright – and will all the other writers and musicians on the programme.
If you can’t get a ticket, keep an ear out for the programme on Sunday mornings at 9am.
Here’s a post from the Sunday Miscellany Facebook page.
One last thing.
I’ll be reading from my new poetry collection, TIDAL, and from This Little World too if Sarah asks me to. Both books are available online via the publisher Doire Press, https://www.doirepress.com/books/poetry/feminist-poetry/tidal
The festival bookshop at Glór, run by Dervilla and her fab team from the Ennis Bookshop, will have copies for sale, and we hope to be able to sign some after our gig on Friday in the Glór foyer at 5pm.
See you there!
Karen J McDonnell 