Push Forward Festival - Poetry
The New Theatre
Poetry at Push Forward Festival at The New Theatre
Dates: Saturday December 3rd from 8pm. Tickets €8
Join us for an evening of poetry from some of Ireland’s leading poets as part of the Push Forward Festival. Featuring Geoff the Poet, Hazel Hogan, Emmett Kirwan, HK Ní Shioradáin, and Samuel Yakura.
Geoff Finan was the Writer in Residence for Dublin City Council for the Dublin North West area in the summer of 2018 and again in 2019 and is currently lecturing in poetry in the National College of Art and Design on and also in Maynooth University.
In 2019 he had the honour of writing the 100 year commemorative poem celebrating the first Dáil in Ireland, titled ‘January 1919’. He recently debuted his first play with The Can Collective called Wakespace during the Scene & Heard Theatre Festival in 2022.
Geoff was commissioned as part of the First Fortnight Festival to write the poem ‘Gloke’ after working with The Travelling Community for 4 months. Geoff has also been commissioned by the DCC’s Culture Connects project to write for the Local Heroes initiative and his poem A Letter To Leo was chosen as the flagship piece for the My Name Is campaign, fighting against child homelessness in Ireland.
Doors: 19:45
