Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin reads deeply personal meditations on identity, environment and landscape.

Moving between the philosophical and the ironic, Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa's poetry considers the sweet and sour aspects of youth and middle-age.

An essential contribution from GilleBrìghde Mac ’ill Mhaoil from South Uist, in which song and poetry are one and the same, in his strongly assonantal work which is both traditional and modern.

Aifric Mac Aodha examines indecision and celebrates romantic love.

Fresh, sonorous poetry from Eòghan Stiùbhart, of varied metrical forms inspired by Sorley MacLean, Pink Floyd, Neruda and the Arabic qasida, among others.

Gabriel Rosenstock’s reading demonstrates his anarchic imagination and inimitable style, including his Irish versions of canonical early twentieth-century poems.

Proffering a “new inhabited music” across three centuries – in dialogue with Duncan Bàn Mac Intyre’s eighteenth-century Gaelic classic – Garry Mackenzie gives a powerfully ecological reading from his outstanding first book of poetry, Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain, published by The Irish Pages Press in January 2021.

With work of rich metaphorical and writerly reach, Peter Sirr offers rare and multifarious insights across a variety of contexts: a hymn to bookshops and reading; a whale’s afterlife; atmospherics of a Covid summer; the impossibility of fitting language’s endless promise to perception’s unfolding inclusivity; the importance of invisible things; beautiful details of departed family life – amongst many others.

Shetlander Robert Alan Jamieson reads from his latest book, Plague Clothes, written as he recovered from Covid-19, an unforgettable record of the physical illness itself – as well as a revelatory, profound, and subtly moving series of existential reflections prompted by the first Lockdown.

Jessica Traynor moves seamlessly through a series of poems registering both the local and global: Dublin rivers, histories of the Irish State, and family life; ecological calamity and the migrant crisis; national nostalgia and corrupt privilege; the demands of feminism and the experience of new motherhood.

In a dramatic reading full of Glaswegian humour, Andrew O’Hagan reads a passage from his latest novel, Mayflies, about an Eighties schoolboy striking out from a council estate and dysfunctional family for the hopeful promise of higher education; an extract from a short-story about a son, a mother and an unexpected Covid death; and the opening of an essay on “the unstable boundaries” between fiction and non-fiction in the digital age.