Chris Agee &
Kapka Kassabova
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Two transnational writers – with work rooted in the Balkans, Ireland and Scotland – appear together for the first time. Chris Agee reads from his fourth collection, <em>Blue Sandbar Moon</em>, “a micro-epic” that explores with delicate
Gabriel Rosenstock &
Garry MacKenzie
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Gabriel Rosenstock’s reading demonstrates his anarchic imagination and inimitable style, including his Irish versions of canonical early twentieth-century poems. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Proffering a
Aifric Mac Aodha &
Eòghan Stiùbhart
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Aifric Mac Aodha examines indecision and celebrates romantic love. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Fresh, sonorous poetry from Eòghan Stiùbhart, of varied metrical forms inspired by Sorley
Pádraig MacFhearghusa & GilleBrìghde Mac ’ille Mhaoil
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Moving between the philosophical and the ironic, Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa's poetry considers the sweet and sour aspects of youth and middle-age. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">An
Ceaití
Ní Bheildiúin
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin reads deeply personal meditations on identity, environment and landscape.</p> <b>1.00pm</b>
Cathal Ó Searcaigh &
Anna Frater
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s reading moves between the two human extremes of love and the horrors of violent conflict. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Anna Frater’s reading moves
Simon Ó Faoláin &
Meg Bateman
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Simon Ó Faoláin considers love, death and exile in his choice of poems. </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-11846" src="https://crosswaysfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/grape30x15.png" alt="" width="30" height="15" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Meg Bateman surveys her work from her earliest love
Paula Meehan &
Kathleen Jamie
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Unmatched for her performative music, Paula Meehan takes us on a journey into the sources and resources of a life in poetry, touching along the way on song, folklore, <em>aisling</em>, memorialization, and the ancient obligations of
Opening
Welcome
<p style="text-align: center;line-height: 28px">Opening introductions from Lisa Marie Joyce, Maolcholaim Scott and Chris Agee. Followed by music from Gillebrìde MacMillan. </p> <b>6.00pm</b>