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DIAL (Chapter 9: September) at Sardam 2026, Limassol + press

On Thursday 24 September I will perform Chapter 9 from my ongoing durational project DIAL as part of the programme for the 14th edition of Sardam International Interdisciplinary Literature Festival in Limassol, Cyprus.

Scheduled as the opening performance event of this year's festival, DIAL (Chapter 9: September) will also feature sonic interventions from two of my regular collaborators: Joanna Mattrey on viola, and Keith Lindsay on electronics.


Our start time is 8pm, and the performance duration will be 60 minutes exactly. The venue is Palio Xydadiko (Old Vinegar Factory) at Genethliou Mitella 34, Lemesos.

Admission is free, but booking is required. Please see the festival website for reservation details.

For more about DIAL see here.

Our participation in Sardam 2026 is made possible through generous funding support from Culture Ireland - Ireland’s national agency for the promotion of the arts and culture.

Sardam (meaning "verbal slip" in Greek) is an annual, out-of-the-box international interdisciplinary literature festival presenting the work of writers, writers-performers and other artists through hybrid and interdisciplinary acts and collaborations. Over its lifespan it has hosted emerging and established writers-performers from all over the world, including Katalin Ladik, Giovanni Fontana and Tomomi Adachi. Some of the other participants in the 2026 edition include Lydia Davis, Phoebe Giannisi, Jeff Hilson and Iris Colomb.

With thanks to Culture Ireland, and to Sardam artistic director, Maria A. Ioannou, for the invitation.

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Last week I was interviewed by Anthi Ermogenous, Chief Editor at Limassol Today - a digital magazine focusing on urban culture and commentary with an emphasis on lifestyle and the arts - about DIAL, its upcoming presentation at Sardam 2026, and my practice and poetics more broadly. The feature was published on 14 September in translation into Greek, as well as in its original form in English.

Asymptote Journal - an award-winning online journal specialising in world literature and translation - also featured the project and its trip to Limassol. Writing in the weekly newsletter 'Dispatches from the Frontlines of World Literature' published on 11 September, editor-at-large MARGENTO calls DIAL "among the more unusual developments in contemporary Irish literature: a work in which the poem is not so much composed as continually intercepted, redirected, and performed;" and "a work whose most compelling question may be the simplest one: what happens to poetry when we allow the world to speak first?"


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