Name: Dyke Juvenilia, Olive Franklin's Pamphlet Launch
Start: 2026-03-31T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-31T19:00:00+01:00
Location: The Seamus Heaney Centre

Dyke Juvenilia, Olive Franklin's Pamphlet Launch

Come celebrate poet and graduate of The Seamus Heaney Centre Olive Franklin's pamphlet launch.
About this Event

Doors at 5:30pm

Start time 6pm

We are excited to celebrate the launch of Olive Franklin's first poet pamphlet, 'Dyke Juvenilia' published by Poetry London Editions.

Taking inspiration from singers, artists and writers – ranging from Nina Simone to Elizabeth Bishop – Dyke Juvenilia is a pamphlet about sexuality, friendship and community.

"The first poem of this pamphlet bolts straight out, a confident, dynamic voice emerging onto the field of the page. Contemporary culture, the self, other artists and writers stalk the perimeters of the stanzas and yet this is a poet who has a tight hold of the reins, who is in complete control and allows poems to gallop with imaginative and linguistic flair." Andrew McMillian

Olive Franklin's work appears in Poetry, The Poetry Review, Granta, and other publications across Ireland and the UK. Her debut pamphlet – Dyke Juvenilia – won the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize 2025.