Cork World Book Festival
Apr
23

Cork World Book Festival

Diversity in the Arts Today: with contemporary artist Jesse Jones, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe (Skein Press) and Alanna Offield (Macha Press). In conversation with Sarah Harte

Diversity in the arts today in Ireland has so much to teach us. Some of the most active proponents at the vanguard of diversity join us today for what promises to be a challenging and inclusive debate about where we are today and where we can grow.

Artist in Residence for the King’s Inn Society of Ireland, Jesse Jones proposes a re-imagining of the relationship between the Law and the body through speculative feminism. Working across film, performance, installation, and community-arts activism, Jesse has represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, and has shown at ICA Singapore and Guggenheim Bilbao.

Skein Press are a writer-centred publishing house supporting traditionally underrepresented voices in Irish literature and have curated and championed some of the most thought-provoking stories to be held in reader’s hands today. With programmes such as their Play it Forward Fellowships, they are persistently broadening conversations around diversity, inclusion, access and opportunity across the literary landscape.

Recently founded by seven poets, Macha Press work as a collective endeavour and actively challenge dichotomous and binary modes of thinking. All the founders are currently based on the island of Ireland, though each has a visionary reach that is integral to the international and trans-generational character of Macha. They promote the appreciation, performance and recognition of the endeavour of both emerging and recovered poets to the local community and beyond.

Wednesday 23 April 2025

City Library | 6.30pm | Free

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The Cúirt Poetry Sessions, in association with Poetry Ireland
Apr
9

The Cúirt Poetry Sessions, in association with Poetry Ireland

Join us for an evening of poetry featuring the first two authors published by Macha Press, a new publisher dedicated to marginal, experimental, and interdisciplinary works.

Eilish Martin’s third collection, titled ! All’arme / ? And what… if not, is composed of two experimental poetic works and designed as a ‘head-to-tail’ book which can be read from either end.

Sam Furlong is a writer from Dublin. Their first book Crowd Work (forthcoming in May 2025) showcases a new voice on the Irish poetry scene.

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