gorse at ILF Dublin
We’re pleased to be taking part in this year’s International Literature Festival Dublin.
Phonica: Two
Phonica is a Dublin-based poetry and music venture with an emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Conceived, curated and hosted by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, it aims to provide an outlet for the exploration and presentation of new ideas, a space where practitioners from different artforms can converse, and an environment conducive to collaborative enterprise and improvisation.
Knowledge comes with death’s release
Please join us in celebrating the launch of gorse no. 5, in the The Liquor Rooms, on Wednesday 20th April with readings from the issue by D. Joyce-Ahearne, Darragh McCausland, Alan Jude Moore, Nathan Hugh O’Donnell, and Eimear Ryan.
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Poems Upstairs: gorse showcase
Presented by Poetry Ireland in partnership with gorse: Poems Upstairs: a gorse showcase, featuring Colin Herd, Robert Herbert McClean and Doireann Ní Ghríofa, three writers whose work has appeared in or is forthcoming in gorse, introduced by gorse‘s poetry editor Christodoulos Makris.
Compass Lines: A North/South Writers’ Exchange
Compass Lines: A Writers’ Exchange Project
Compass Lines is a writers’ exchange project aiming to establish links between writers and communities in the North and South of Ireland, while additionally examining relationships between the East and West of these islands, through workshops, public discussions, and the commissioning of new collaborative writing.
Compass Lines aims to encourage artistic fusion and integrate a sometimes fragmented audience, geographically and otherwise, through the strategy of combining writers with various concerns and backgrounds. Eschewing their comfort zones and usual patterns of working presents a diversion and a challenge to the writers, and a way of instigating discussions about ideas of process and place that reside in contemporary writing and which are often ignored through traditional views of literature.
Developed by poet, editor and curator Christodoulos Makris in collaboration with the Irish Writers Centre as producing organisation, and with the participation of the Crescent Arts Centre as partner venue, Compass Lines will comprise a series of enterprises, alternately in Dublin and in Belfast, each with the participation of two writers – one with connections to the north of Ireland and one to the south.