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The Expanded Field + SERIES 04

A couple of weeks ago I recorded a short excerpt from a new long poem of mine called 'Hallucinations' for the December 2025 edition of Jennifer Redmond & Matthew Geden's monthly hourlong radio show The Expanded Field, broadcasting on éist radio.

éist is a Cork-based volunteer-run internet radio collective dedicated to fostering creativity, collaboration, and community engagement through digital radio.

In The Expanded Field, "strategies of poetic creation are debated and extended by audio effects. Aesthetic and ethical boundaries are pushed out and beyond the page."

'The Expanded Field - Baa Boo Humbug' was broadcast at 4pm on Wednesday 17 December 2025 as a mix of experimental sounds, music, interview, poetry and live performance. My section runs for approximately 7 minutes and it's accompanied by sounds from Irene Murphy and Mick O'Shea.

Thanks to Jenny for soliciting my contribution. Broadcast information, including a breakdown of the lineup, is available here or here, where you can also listen back to the full show. You can also listen through the widget below (my contribution starts at the 10:30 mark).


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The following evening, 18 December, I read as part of an event curated by Yağmur Akyürek representing the fourth edition of an ongoing reading series called SERIES, previously supported by a Changemaker Collective grant from New York University. SERIES 04 took place at the Kirkos space on Little Green Street in north inner city Dublin.

A recent MFA in poetry graduate from New York University, Akyürek started SERIES in New York City with a couple of grad school friends and the idea of hosting writing events in various satellite spaces. The first three editions took place in New York. With Akyürek finding herself working at University College Dublin for a semester, she took the initiative to cold-reach out to some poets, writers and artists in Ireland working predominantly in hybrid and experimental modes and whose work she has admired from a distance to put together a reading for the fourth iteration.

It turned out to be a beautiful and intimate event with some high quality readings and performances. A pleasure to read with friends and collaborators Jessica Foley, Suzanne Walsh, Julie Morrissy and Jennifer Redmond, and to experience work from writers new to me. With thanks to Yağmur for the initiative.

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