Transatlantic Poetry Salon at Books Upstairs, Dublin
It's a great pleasure to announce this very special reading at Books Upstairs, Dublin's oldest independent bookshop, taking place on Sunday 13 July 2025.
The Transatlantic Poetry Salon features rob mclennan and Christine McNair visiting from Ottawa in Canada, as well as Dublin-based Éireann Lorsung (who will be returning to the US later this summer to take up a permanent position at University of South Dakota, teaching and editing the South Dakota Review) and myself.
The Transatlantic Poetry Salon is made possible through generous support from Poetry Ireland. Thanks also to Maurice, Louisa, and everyone at Books Upstairs for hosting us.
Full details below:
Transatlantic Poetry Salon:
Éireann Lorsung | Christodoulos Makris | rob mclennan | Christine McNair
Books Upstairs
17 D'Olier Street, Dublin 2
2pm, Sunday 13 July 2025
Free Entry
Presented in association with Poetry Ireland
Curated by Christodoulos Makris
A special event with readings from four poets operating in a range of media and disciplines in Dublin and across the Atlantic.
This is a rare opportunity to experience vibrant, exceptional contemporary poetry from a gathering of poets with an international reach, outlook and reputation.
Éireann Lorsung works and teaches in a field of images, objects, movement, and texts. Born in the US, she has lived in France, the UK, and Belgium; since 2022 she has lived in Ireland and taught at University College Dublin. Her publications include Music for Landing Planes By, Her book, and The Century (Milkweed Editions) and Pattern-book (Carcanet Press, May 2025); Pink Theory! is forthcoming from Milkweed in 2026. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (US) and held the 2025 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College (US).
rob mclennan is author of some fifty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. His most recent titles include On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press, 2024), the poetry collections Snow day (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025) and the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025), and the anthology groundworks: the best of the third decade of above/ground press 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023). The current Artistic Director of VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, he spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta.
Christine McNair is the author of Charm (winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award) and Conflict (finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry). Conflict was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her chapbook pleasantries and other misdemeanours was shortlisted for the 2014 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Toxemia (Book*hug 2024) is her first published work of hybrid non-fiction -- a poetic memoir of her experience with preeclampsia, illness, and various aspects of toxicity. She currently works as a book doctor in Ottawa.
Christodoulos Makris is the author of five books of poetry – most recently Contemporaneous Brand Strategy Document (Veer Books, 2023) and It Reeks of Radio (BLR Editions, UCD, 2023) – as well as several limited edition pamphlets, artists’ books, digital projects and other poetry objects. His awards include Writer in Residence at Maynooth University; a Project Commission from IMMA; a Poetry Residency at StAnza Festival, Scotland; a Creativity Bursary from UCD; an Artist Residency at Irish Arts Center, New York; and a Poetry Commission from Cúirt Festival among others. His many editorial and curatorial credits include the groundbreaking mixed media exhibition and programme of events ‘Is this a poem?’ which ran from February to September 2024 at Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI).
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