Macha Press: Experimental Poetry - Sam Furlong & Susanna Galbraith

Recently founded by seven poets based on the island of Ireland, Macha Press is dedicated to work that is experimental, hybrid or interdisciplinary.

Crowd Work (2025) by Dublin writer Sam Furlong explores the body, intimacy and identity, while Morsels (2025) by Belfast poet Susanna Galbraith forays into love, anxiety, transformation and the craft of poetry.

Join Sam and Susanna for an evening of readings and discussion. 

Susanna Galbraith is a poet from Belfast. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin and Art History at the University of York, where she focused on modern and contemporary art. She has a particular interest in areas where literature and visual art overlap and interact. Her recent poems have appeared in New England Review, Berlin Lit, Propel Magazine and others. She is an editor of Abridged magazine.

Sam Furlong is a writer from Dublin who works across genres. They completed an MA in Poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre, where they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award in 2023. Their writing has appeared in publications including Banshee, Abridged, Propel, Catflap, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Pig’s Back. They have been selected for the National Mentorship Programme and Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series, and read alongside Stephen Rea and Paula Meehan at the Abbey Theatre’s Now We Must Sing: Celebrating WB Yeats. At present, they are developing a short story collection supported by both an Agility Award and The Stinging Fly workshop scholarship and are Poetry Editor of Frustrated Writers’ Group.