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** Poet as Troublemaker
With Dr. Victoria Kennefick and Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Tues, April 8th at 11am
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Join us this Tuesday, April 8th at 11am for Poet as Troublemaker, a special poetry reading and conversation inspired by Biddy Jenkinson, who advised that “the poet is by profession a troublemaker. She must be independent to the point of eccentricity and is often, though not necessarily, as curst as a crow-trodden hen and as odd as one of the triple-faced monsters with which the Celts depicted Ogma the omniscient, gazing in all directions at once.”
This event will feature readings and Q&A by Dr. Victoria Kennefick, 2025 Arts Council/Trinity College Dublin Writer Fellow, and Annemarie Ní Churreáin, UCD/Arts Council Writer in Residence for 2025. This event brings together young poets and writers from both UCD and TCD. General members of the public are welcome to attend, listen and/or contribute to the conversation.
Doors open at 10.30am. The event is free but booking is essential.
Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. She is the UCD/Arts Council Writer in Residence for 2025. Her poetry books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021) and Ghostgirl (Donegal Archives, 2023). Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award for Best Debut Collection (IRE) and for the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for Best Second Collection (UK). Her recent awards include the The Markievicz Award, The Kavanagh Fellowship and a Hawthornden Residency Award (NYC). As a librettist she co-created the script for Elsewhere, the critically acclaimed debut opera of Straymaker (IRE) in co-production with the Abbey National Theatre of Ireland. Ní Churreáin is the 2025 UCD/Arts Council Writer in Residence and the current poetry editor at The Stinging Fly Magazine. Visit studiotwentyfive.com (https://studiotwentyfive.com/?mc_cid=057f16a151&mc_eid=UNIQID) .
Dr. Victoria Kennefick is a writer, poet, editor and teacher. Her debut poetry collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Butler Literary Prize. It was a Book of the Year in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sunday Independent and The White Review, and was also selected as one of The Telegraph‘s Best Poetry Books to Buy 2021. Her second collection, Egg/Shell (Carcanet Press, 2024) was a Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2024, BBC Poetry Extra Book of the Month for March as well as a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and The Poetry Society UK. In 2023 she was an Arts Council of Ireland/UCD Writer in Residence as well as Poet in Residence at the Yeats Society Sligo. In 2024, she was Cork County Council Arts Office Writer in
Residence. For 2025, she is delighted to be appointed as the Arts Council of Ireland/Trinity College Dublin Writer Fellow.
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