Visible Bodies, Audible Voices – Contemporary Spoken Word Poetry in Ireland | Invisible Lives, Silent Voices: An International Seminar (invited talk) (27 March 2025)
Events
“Poetry Off the Page: Past, Present, Future” at University College Dublin (24 April 2025) Event with poetry performance by Emmet O’Brien and Stephen James Smith, a roundtable discussion with organizers and scholars of poetry performance, including Paul Casey (Ó Bhéal), Lucy Collins (UCD), Claire Palzer (University of Vienna) and Melissa Ridge (Boundless and Bare), and an open mic organised by Elise Brouwer and Ross Evan.
“Boxing Day” artist performance and talk with Irish poet William Keohane at the University of Vienna as part of an EFACIS Irish Itinerary event series (2 April 2025)
Artist talk and Q&A with poet Kalle Ryan as part of the “Contemporary Irish Verse on Page and Stage” course (June 2024)
Radio
Conversation with Paula Wiseman on Northside Today. Listen back here.
Conference Presentations
Listening to Poetry: Rethinking Sound in Literary Criticism with Julia Lajta-Novak, Rachel Bolle-Debessay, and Shefali Banerji| Fleeting Voices: Preserving Acoustic Heritage in the Archives and the Arts, University of Applied Arts Vienna (1-3 October 2025)
Spoken Word Poetry: Placing Voice in Performance (poster presentation) | Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe: Advancesin Poetry Performance Research, University of Vienna (13-14 June 2025)
Attending to/Attending through Spoken Word Poetry in Ireland | 2025 EFACIS Conference Turku: Attending to Ireland, Åbo Akademi University and University of Turku (8-10 May 2025)
“I have become like the Lagan in your absence” – Enacting Landscapes in Contemporary Poetry Performance in Ireland | Re-Reading British and Irish Landscapes in the 21st Century: Nature, Networks, Identities, University of Mannheim (14-15 June 2024)
“All your disembodied heads floating on a screen” – Virtual Performance Practices in Mel Bradley’s Ms Noir’s Seven Deadly Sins | All Borders Blur: Mapping Intersections and Genre Crossings in UK Spoken-Word Poetries Since 1965, Queen Mary University of London (11-12 November 2023)
“How About Us?” – Hearing Unheard Voices in Spoken Word Poetry in Ireland | Reading Ireland in the Twenty-First Century: The 6th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Charles University Prague (22-23 September 2023)
“I’m Irish But…” – The North in All-Ireland Spoken Word Poetry Spaces | 2023 EFACIS Conference Belfast: Unions and Partitions in Ireland, Queens University, Belfast (24-27 August 2023)
“Spoken Word Poetry in Ireland: Placing Voice in Performance” | IASIL 2022, University of Limerick (25-29 July 2022)
