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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My guest today is the fantastic Palestinian-American poet, journalist, teacher and activist Noor Hindi. What comes after awareness. And then what? And then what? There’s a bird. No. It’s a drone. My...
Helen Hutchinson is a poet with a lifetime of activism and community building – and a founding member of Pavee Point, a groundbreaking group set up in 1985 which used a collective community...