Poetry Reading: Dean Browne, Matthew Rice, Kandace Siobhan Walker

Nuns Island Theatre

Nuns Island Theatre, Ireland

We are delighted to welcome three remarkable poets to Cúirt. Their work explores the boundaries, absurdities and humour of modern life. In Dean Browne’s debut, After Party , we encounter a mesmeric teller of surreal poems that test the boundaries of contemporary poetry. A leg sets off on a long train journey; a Parisian alley cat is launched into space; earthbound lovers attempt to connect while their inner lives prove unbridgeable. Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, Matthew Rice’s Plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. This collection moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings. Kandace Siobhan Walker’s debut Cowboy is knowing, millennial and funny, with currents of spirituality, familial mythology, grief and longing. Asking the question, where does a person grow up? and moving restlessly between rural Wales, London, the American South, and esoteric spaces of the internet. In association with the Welsh Government