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Join us on Thursday 04 July, 8pm for a night of poetry from Banshee Press.Doors at 7.30.
This event is supported by the Embassy of Ireland, Berlin and Culture Ireland as part of Zeitgeist Irland 24.
Banshee Press presents a reading with three of their poets, Dylan Brennan, Gustav Parker Hibbett and Rosamund Taylor. Rosamund, Dylan and Gustav have roots in Ireland, Mexico and the US. Their work explores, among other subjects, Irish history and queer and Black identities, demonstrating a multi-faceted modern Ireland, alive to both its history and contemporary discourse.
Gustav Parker Hibbet is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout. Originally from New Mexico, they are currently pursuing a PhD at Trinity College Dublin. They are a 2022 Djanikian Scholars Semifinalist and a 32 Poems Featured Emerging Poet, and their most recent work appears or is forthcoming in Guernica, Adroit, The Missouri Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, and Icarus. You can also find them on Twitter @gustav_parker and Instagram
@gustavparker.
Praise for High Jump as Icarus Story:
“These are poems of real grace, poems in which the intellect and form are harmonised and made to move together. Gods and mythic figures provide the relief-work and architecture for a moving exploration of Blackness, the body, philosophy and so much more. Stylish, tender, playful and rigorous all at once, in this collection Parker Hibbett proves themselves to be one of our most compelling new voices.”
— Seán Hewitt
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Dylan Brennan’s debut poetry collection, Blood Oranges (The Dreadful Press, 2014), was awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Award runner-up prize. In 2016 he co-edited Rethinking Juan Rulfo’s Creative World: Prose, Photography, Film with Prof. Nuala Finnegan, and in 2017 he collaborated on Guadalupe & Other Hallucinations, an illustrated e-book, with visual artist Jonathan
Brennan. He is a recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry bursary award. He lives in Mexico City.
Praise for Let the Dead:
“Dylan Brennan writes of ‘the need to perceive all the things of this earth’, and this collection succeeds not just in perceiving, but exhibiting the glow and sometimes the horror, the galactic
variety, the soft places and flaming intensities that fill our human world. He writes on the borders of life and of death, on the frontiers of cultures, in poems shot full of colour and obliquely illuminated, so that the simple truth of complex live reality is memorably displayed.”
— Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
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Rosamund Taylor won the London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 and the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry 2017. Widely published, her work has recently appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Mslexia, The Rialto and Poetry Ireland Review. A selection of her poems is included in Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (The Lifeboat Press).
Praise for In Her Jaws:
“Taylor’s poems possess a talismanic quality. With lyric sorcery, she conjures encounters with a chorus of wild creatures: spectres and lovers, selves and others. Beneath the seductive gleam of
her poetry lies an invitation to glimpse the fabulous. In Her Jaws will hold you in thrall.”
— Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lausitzer Platz 17, 10997 Berlin, Germany, Lausitzer Platz 17, 10997 Berlin, Deutschland,Berlin, Germany