Love, Cats, Confetti: Poetry of the Moment
LITERARY
Love, Cats, Confetti: Poetry of the Moment
With poets Saoirse Anton, Salena Godden and Alice Kinsella
Tues 08 July | 6pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Tues 08 July | 6pm
Duration:
60 minutes
Event Categories:
Literary
Admission:
€12
Age Suitability:
16+
Venue:
Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge.
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Join poets Saoirse Anton, Salena Godden and Alice Kinsella for an evening of poetry and conversation. From political optimism to parenting (arguably the same thing), and cat ownership to circuses (definitely the same thing), these poets cover creative continents. Between them, they bring award-winning fiction, memoir and poetry shaped by lives lived on the road, on the margins and in the thick of it.
Salena Godden's debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death (2021) won the Indie Book Awards for Fiction and the People’s Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Her new full poetry collection With Love, Grief and Fury and literary childhood memoir Springfield Road - A Poets Childhood Revisited were published in May 2024.
Saoirse Anton is an Irish writer, performer and producer. She released her debut pamphlet Confetti Catching in February 2024, written while living with NoFit State Circus as Production Poet in Residence in Spring 2023.
Alice Kinsella’s books include Milk: On Motherhood and Madness (2023) and Wake of the Whale (2024) which was a Sunday Independent Book of the Year. The Ethics of Cats (2025) is her debut full-length poetry collection.