St. Brigid’s Open-Mic Poetry Night

About The Event

We promise that this will be a magical and wonderful evening to celebrate the legacy of Ireland’s Pagan Goddess & Christian Saint, Brigid, who even today, (now that she has her own official feast day and holiday),  calls out to all Irish women and to all those of Irish heritage, to know that they possess magical Celtic powers beyond their imagination!

Everyone is welcome to come to listen, share, celebrate and enjoy. However, on this occasion, we specifically invite women to take the stage to recite and perform. Men are of course welcome to attend, to listen, to support and to enjoy the event. 

If you wish.. bring along some “food to share’ to celebrate the Feminine giving and open heart of Saint Brigid.

About the Host of this Evening, the Poet Siobhán Campbell. 

Dublin born poet Siobhán Campbell is the author of six poetry books and pamphlets: Heat Signature (Seren Books, 2017), winner of the Michael Marks Award; Cross-Talk (Seren, 2009); Darwin Among the Machines (Rack Press, 2009); That Water Speaks in Tongues (Templar Poetry, 2008), winner of the Templar Pamphlets and Collection Award; The Cold That Burns (Blackstaff Press, 2000); and The Permanent Wave (Blackstaff, 1996). She was co-editor of 2016’s essay collection Eavan Boland: Inside History. Her work has been collected in anthologies including Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe), Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets writing in English (Seren), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature (NYU Press), and Open-Eyed, Full Throated: An Anthology of American/Irish Poets (Syracuse University Press). Siobhán recently appeared in “Diaspora” a series of nine poetry short films, produced by The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in partnership with the ICC.  

Siobhán Campbell’s honors include the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, an Arts Council award, and awards in the National Poetry Competition and the Troubadour International Competition. Her poem “Longboat at Portaferry” was chosen as Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year at the 2021 An Post Irish Book Awards. Her poetry has been published widely in US, UK, and Irish literary journals such as Poetry, Poetry Ireland, Magma Poetry, Agenda, Crab Orchard Review, and The Hopkins Review, as well as periodicals including The Guardian and The Irish Times.

In Campbell’s academic, poetic, and social justice undertakings, her interests align around questions of violence and conflict and their societal impact. The founder of the Military Writing Network, Campbell has done creative writing work with veteran soldiers of the conflict in Northern Ireland through Combat Stress UK and SSAFA. She edited Courage & Strength: Stories and Poems by Combat Veterans (Kingston University Press) as part of an multi-faceted ongoing project to archive post-combat writing. 

Campbell has an MA (UCD ), PhD (Lancaster Uni) Post-Grad (NYC).  She previously taught at Kingston University, where she was an associate professor in English literature. She is currently a senior lecturer of creative writing at the Open University.

Siobhán Campbell will be selling copies of her poetry book after this event and she will sign copies as required.