(I Can’t Get No) Patefaction, Lucie Thorne 2023
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Featured Artist: Lucie Thorne
Brigid the Bard Festival 2026 Supplement
- Brigid the Bard Festival 2026 Program
- Celtic Christian Brigid the Bard – The Prankqueans celebrate Brigid
- Áine de Paor agus an ‘Midnight Court’ le Brian Merriman
- ‘Season of Brigid’ by Anne Casey, Performed by Davog Rynne
- ‘Creidim, 1579 AD’ & ‘Imbolc Incantation’. Poems by Jennifer Liston
- ‘No Matter. It is the Truth’. A poem by Robyn Rowland
- ‘I Wear the Polka Dot Dress Inside Me’. A prose poem by Margaret O’Brien
- ‘Bríd na mín fhocal / Bríd of the soft words’. A prose poem by Julie Breathnach- Banwait
- ‘Bríd/Brigid’. A poem by Colin Ryan
- ‘Among the Reeds’. A poem by Karen J McDonnell
- ‘Brigid, goddess of light’ a poem by Anne Casey
- ‘Blue’. A poem by Lizz Murphy
- ‘Brigid of the Bargain Bins’ & ‘The Song of Brigid’s Cloak’. Two poems by Catherine Ann Cullen
- ‘St. Brigid’s Cross’. A poem by Rachael Stanley
- ‘Saint Brigid’s Eve’ a poem by Eileen Sheehan
- ‘St Brigid Guides the Cartographer’s Hand’ a poem by Jean O’Brien
Reviews
- Revelations In The Quiet Carriage: Devika Brendon reviews The Office Of Literary Endeavours by Mark Roberts
- The immediacy of the message: Mark Roberts reviews Each Night I Count My Children: Poems From Gaza
- A heartfelt attempt to capture the fragility of life: Barbara Dunne reviews Mimesis By Michael Quinn and Joe Boske
- Guth a thabhairt (Giving voice): Michael Witts reviews Seang (Hungering) by Anne Casey
Launches
- A memoir of things that need to be said: Cassie Hamer launches Letters to Dead People and Others En Route by Jennifer Dickerson
- Music, Mechanics & Emotions: Tru S. Dowling launches Chords in the Soundscapes by Michael J. Leach
- The crunch, the rhyme, the echo: Kate Ennals launches Tidal by Karen J McDonnell
- Compulsive readability: Bron Bateman Launches Gold Digger by Lisa Collyer
- A layered sense of place: Anne Caldwell speed launches Otopos by Dominique Hecq
- The heights of timelessness: Morgan Yasbincek launches The Grand Reopening by Toby Davidson
- Insight, tenderness, humour, and fire: Esther Ottaway launches Incandescence by Susan Austin
- Surprising views and tender portals: Debbie Lim launches The Ease of Eggs by Benjamin Dodds
- Vast, unquenchable curiosity: Les Wicks launches Sejours en France et autre pays by Ron Wilkins
- A celebration of informed and fruitful difference: Gig Ryan launches The Wallace Line by Jennifer Mackenzie
Poetry/Prose
- Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad: 5 Poems with Tea Bag Art
- Lisa Collyer: 4 poems from Gold Digger
- Karen J McDonnell. 4 Poem from Tidal
- Looking Out From Chris Wallace-Crabbe. A poem by T.A.R. Wallace
- Susan Hawthorne: Three Poems in Epic Style
- Susan Austin: 6 Poems from Incandescence
- Amanda Anastasi: COP30 Video Poem ‘The Last Call’
- ‘One-Time Code’: A poem by S.C. Flynn
- ‘Chucking Out’. Short fiction by Fionnbharr Rodgers
- Jack Galmitz: 2 Poems
- Sarah Meehan: 3 Poems
Sydney launch of Te Purere/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets
- New perspectives and insights: Vaughan Rapatahana and John Gallas introduce Te Purere/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets
- E Wen Wong: 2 Poems
- Jen Crawford: 2 Poems
- Miro Bilbrough: 2 Poems
- Angela Stretch: 2 Poems
- Susan Adams: 2 Poems
- Doc Drumheller: 2 Poem
Visual Arts
Obituary
- Vale Lionel Fogarty
- Vale Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Vale Joan Cahill – David Gilbey pays tribute
- Vale Susan Adams
- Vale Robert Gray: Mark Mahemoff remembers Robert Gray (1945-2025)
- Vale Moya Costello
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