re:verb
a festival of contemporary poetry & the verbal arts
Dublin, Ireland
Director: Christodoulos Makris
Partner Venue: Kirkos
Partner Bookshop: Cailleach Books
a platform showcasing poetry and verbal art that predominantly strays from the mainstream, and aims to expand the potential of live literature.
re:verb 2026
FULL PROGRAMME AND TICKETS:
Friday 5 June 2026
5pm: Kit Fryatt & Máighréad Medbh - TICKETS
7.30pm: Mai Ishikawa & Suzanne Walsh - TICKETS
Saturday 6 June 2026
2.30pm: Jazmine Linklater & Joanna Walsh - TICKETS
5pm: Alice Lyons & Maija Makela - TICKETS
7.30pm: Ellen Dillon & Éireann Lorsung - TICKETS
About the artists:
Ellen Dillon is a poet from Limerick. Her latest book How complete + final the feeling… came out with Broken Sleep this year. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Prototype Prize for writers working at the intersections of different forms, and was Arts Council Writer in Residence (UCC) in 2025.
Kit Fryatt lectures in English at Dublin City University. His recent books of poetry are Book of Inversions (with Harry Gilonis, Veer2, 2025) and all things that are passing (with Ellen Dillon, Spite Press 2026).
Mai Ishikawa is a Japanese poet, theatre translator, theatre-maker, performer based in Dublin. Her poems appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, Channel, The Future of Kyoto (Writers in Kyoto), Beginnings Over and Over (Dedalus Press) and elsewhere. Her poetic, audio-physical piece Constriction premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2025.
Jazmine Linklater is a poet and writer based in Manchester where she is a regional editor for the online art writing platform Corridor8. Her new poetry pamphlet is Snagged on red thread with Monitor Books. She is currently undertaking practice-based research in art writing and ekphrastic encounters at Sheffield University.
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, Belgium, and Ireland. She now teaches at University of South Dakota and edits the South Dakota Review. Her publications include The Century (Milkweed Editions) and Pattern-book (Carcanet). Pink Theory! is forthcoming from Milkweed in 2027.
Alice Lyons's recent books are Oona (Lilliput) and The Breadbasket of Europe (Veer). She was the inaugural Heaney-Miłosz resident in Czesław Miłosz's former apartment in Kraków and recipient of a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship in Poetry & New Media. She lives in Sligo.
Maija Makela is from Galway. She writes across and between various forms, and her work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Tolka and numerous other places. A recipient of the Next Generation Award, she has released two acclaimed albums, and is currently writing a PhD on Fanny Howe.
Máighréad Medbh is a poet with ten published books and a reputation for compelling performance. Among her several long-form sequences and conceptual explorations are a verse narrative of the Irish famine and an ecological fantasy-allegory. Dwelling (Macha, 2026) is a mixed-mode poetic essay conversing with ancestry and its limits.
Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and performance. Her publishers include Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury and Verso. She is a 2020 Markievicz awardee, a 2017 UK Arts Foundation fellow, an Anthony Burgess Centenary Writer Fellow at the University of Manchester, and a 2024 DAAD Artists in Berlin awardee (refused in solidarity with Palestine).
Suzanne Walsh/Zan Breathnach is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer working with performance, audio, and text. They publish essays, art-writing, poetry, and fiction in publications including Paper Visual Art Journal, Fallowmedia, and Winter Papers, as well as commissioned texts for art publications.
Comments