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Walt Whitman said to have great poets, you must have great audiences. And with the temporary closure of the Chat Noir’s basement ours has been dropping. And no wonder! Not everyone wants to battle to be heard in a noisy … Continue reading →

Siobhán “Shiv” Hickey is a Dublin-based actor, poet and Artistic Director of After Midnight Theatre.With over 20 years experience in performance, Shiv has been involved in all aspects of the stage from writing to directing to producing to marketing. In 2018,  Shiv developed … Continue reading →

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Ann Condron, ”The Vagabond Queen”, is a mysterious, hat-wearing Spoken Word Artist and Writer from Dublin, Ireland. Showcasing her work since October 2021, she has since established a name for herself within a creative community in Dublin. Performing at various shows, … Continue reading →

Trudie Gorman is a working-class writer whose work explores the personal and political interplaybetween class, gender, and the body. She has performed her poetry across Ireland and theUK and has published pieces in The Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry NI, Two Metre … Continue reading →

Emmet O’Brien is not your generic poet, bursting into the scene in March 2017, Emmet has done more than your average 24 year old. Within the first 3 years alone he released a book, entitled “A Perspective From The Corrupt … Continue reading →

Kevin P. Gilday is an award-winning poet, writer and performer from Glasgow. He is the founder of poetry performance collective The Scribbler’s Union and was co-founder of much loved spoken word cabaret night Sonnet Youth. He is a National Theatre … Continue reading →

Clifton Joseph is an awardwinning Antiguan born Canadian poet. He was a co-founder of De Dub Poets with Lillian Allen and Devon Haughton, the group that started Canada’s dub poetry movement. An esteemed broadcaster, journalist, writer and musical intervener, Joseph … Continue reading →

Jeff Cottrill is a novelist, performance poet and journalist based in Toronto, Canada. He has headlined in numerous literary series throughout Canada, the U.K., the U.S., France and Ireland over the past twenty years. His performance style is influenced by slam conventions, … Continue reading →

Carrie Chappell is the author of Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022) and Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap Press 2021). Her poems have been published in Iron Horse Literary Review, Nashville Review, Redivider, SWIMM, and Yemassee, and her essays have previously appeared … Continue reading →