Enjoy an evening of readings and conversation around three new poetry collections. 

In Hymn to All the Restless Girls, Annemarie Ní Churreáin celebrates the rebel spirit of the restless girl in poems that explore folklore, superstition, Irish language and history. 

Moyra Donaldson’s new collection The Thirteenth Moon takes in climate change, war, personal loss and ageing, with reflections on the power of art. 

In the new pamphlet Milk & Moon-water, Milena Williamson creatively translates Old English metrical charms into magical and medicinal spells for the modern reader. 

Meet the Poets 

Annemarie Ní Churreáin comes from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her third poetry collection, Hymn to All the Restless Girls (The Gallery Press, 2025), appears in The Irish Times Best Poetry of 2025 and among the RTÉ Culture Best Irish Books of the Year. Her books have been shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award for Best First Collection and for the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for Second Collections. Annemarie is a recipient of the Arts Council’s Next Generation Artist Award, the Markievicz Award and the Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship. She is a recent Writer in Residence at The Hawthornden Foundation, New York. She is the poetry editor at The Stinging Fly Magazine. For more on Annemarie visit StudioTwentyFive.com. 

Moyra Donaldson is an award-winning poet and creative writing facilitator living on the Ards Peninsula in Co Down. Her latest collection, The Thirteenth Moon, is published by Doire Press, Galway. (April 2026) She has published ten previous collections of poetry, has had work commissioned for a variety of projects and has been involved in artistic collaborations, most recently with Wexford artist Paddy Lennon resulting in the limited-edition publication of artwork and poems, Blood Horses. She has read at festivals nationally and internationally and her work has been anthologised and broadcast. In 2019, Moyra received a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Milena Williamson is the author of Into the Night that Flies So Fast (Dedalus Press, 2024) and Charm for Catching a Train (Green Bottle Press, 2022). A recipient of the Society of Authors’ Eric Gregory Award in 2021, she has a PhD in poetry from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. Her poems have appeared in The London Magazine, Oxford Poetry, The Stinging Fly, The Kenyon Review and more. Originally from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, she now lives in Belfast.