Neptune and Friends: Rishi Dastidar, Michelle Dennehy and Fióna Bolger
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It is our pleasure to present the an afternoon of poetry with Rishi Dastidar, Michelle Dennehy and Fióna Bolger. All are welcome to join us at 2pm in the first floor café of Books Upstairs on Sunday 20th October.
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:
MICHELLE DENNEHY read English at Oxford University, and holds a Masters degree in Novel Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has featured in several Irish and U.K. journals including The Honest Ulsterman, Abridged, The Cormorant, Skylight 47 and The Stony Thursday Book. Her poems have also been published in anthologies from Dedalus Press and CAP Arts. She lives in the Sperrin mountains with her husband, Ray, and their three children. She is the 2024 winner of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing.
RISHI DASTIDAR’s poetry has been published by the Financial Times, New Scientist and the BBC, amongst many others. His third collection, Neptune’s Projects (Nine Arches Press), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize, and a poem from it was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2024. He is also editor of The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century (Nine Arches Press), and co-editor of Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (Corsair). He reviews poetry for The Guardian and is chair of Wasafiri, the leading magazine of international contemporary writing.
FIÓNA BOGLER is a poet, creative facilitator, editor and mentor who has lived mainly in Ireland and India. She is interested in plurilingual writing across languages and borders. Publications include poetry in The Brown Critique, Muse India, Chattahoochee Review, Southword and Poetry Ireland Review and collections Compound of Words (Yoda Press, Delhi 2019) and Love in the Original Language (Salmon Poetry, 2022). She has co-edited All the Words Between (Yoda Press, 2017), Dubylon (DCC, 2023) and Kin, Anthology of Roma, Traveller and Nomadic Women Writers (Salmon Poetry 2024). She has received two Agility Awards from the Irish Arts Council.
