Do you want to know about the people on the frontlines in the war against migration? To hear from the people directly affected by fascist border policies in Europe? [Artwork painting by Esra Rahma, typography by Louise Truc.] From Sudan to Libya to Europe through their own words: and what happens when they arrive here seeking safety. Since last September I’ve gone to several of the trials in...
Radio documentary produced by Caroline Mudingo Dipanda and Bairbre Flood in collaboration with members of the migrant community in Cork. After audio training workshops during the summer 2025, we worked together to bring some of the stories they cared about to an Irish audience. LISTEN 27th June at 8pm on EIST Radio, Transcontinental + interviews by Raphael Olympio of Sauti (‘voice for the...
I’m working on a new project and if you have the means to help support me with this I’d be very grateful. Fajr /فجر (Arabic): day break, beginning [etymology: to create an outlet or passage (for water), to let pour forth, to cleave, to split, to explode, to burst forth.] FJR /فجر is about the people here on the frontlines in the war against migration. The people directly...
Congratulations to everyone selected for the Wander Open Call 2025 competition! Thank you to everyone who sent in poems and I really hope next year to have this again and to offer this space. Congratulations to all the poets selected: Alienated by Mustafa Noah // How To Be by Sanjar Qiam. // The Dilemma by Hiba Rasheed // Wind Blows Sudden by B3dmah // Caged Bird by...
Hend Jouda is a writer from Gaza who’s published several poetry collections in Arabic: ‘Someone Always Leaves’, ‘No Sugar in the City’ and ‘Finger Survived’ and also, earlier this year, a collection in Arabic and French called ‘A Poet In Times Of War’. Hend was born in Al-Bureij refugee camp in Gaza which has been attacked dozens of times by Israel, including a bombing on May 7th of a school...
Fionnuala O’Connell is a youth project worker, poet, and visual artist. She’s worked for many years to support young people through activities and capacity building. She reads her poems, ‘I’m Sorry’, ‘Mother Tongue’ and ‘Article 6’ – which is inspired by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. ‘You can’t eat your rights. You can’t hold your...
Poet and youth worker Dean Oke studied Community Development and Social Policy, and has a postgrad in youth work – and his poetry reflects this interest in community issues and social justice. He’s an emerging poet with a strong social conscience and an advocate for youth voices. We talk about whether there’s enough room for young people’s voices in literary spaces right now...
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is a writer, performer, and arts consultant from India living in Ireland. Her work’s been published by Dedalus Press, Lifeboat Press, Little Island, Poetry Ireland, Banshee, and The Stinging Fly amongst others. She’s been the recipient of multiple Arts Council Awards, one of which supported her being the 2023 Writer in Residence for the Institute of...
Amano is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in Ireland and Japan. Her practice includes sean-nós, vocal improvisation and folk storytelling. Amano working to de-colonise the Irish language through music, and writes beautiful, evocative and often politically charged poetry and spoken word. She reads her poem, ‘Underpass 6’ and we’ve a lovely talk about sean-nós singing, the...
In this special Poetry Day episode, Lavie Olupona reads her poems and we talk about being a young writer in Ireland today, setting up the new magazine Blaithi (‘Little Flower’ in Irish) and how her Nigerian and Traveller ethnicity influences her writing. Lavie has performed her work at Misleór, Many Tongues of Cork, and was recently part of the Good Day Cork radio...