Irish Writer’s Weekend at The British Library
The Stinging Fly: New writers, new writing

This Samhain step into the eerie beauty of London's oldest botanical garden for a ‘Botanical Horror Creative Writing Workshop’ at Chelsea Physic Garden.

From the Well Anthology, West Cork Literary Festival

Poet Jess McKinney and florist Hannah Walker (Bride and Bloom) share an interest in flowers native to the British Isles: for Jess, it’s their folkloric associations, which form the basis for her PhD and poetic practice. For Hannah, it stems from a love of wild, exuberant, naturalistic arrangements and a desire to minimise environmental impact. Join them both for a morning workshop of flower arranging and poetry, in the beautiful surroundings of Hellens Manor.

Greens, Tolls, Weeds: Zaffar Kunial, Jess McKinney & Emma Must

The idea is simple: bring together two emerging poets who have been making a name for themselves over the last few years and get a near-contemporary to say a few words about them.

Tim Tim Cheng, Roshni Gallagher, Nasim Rebecca Asl, and Jess McKinney untangle the knots between the words we use and the world we inhabit in this discussion chaired by Éadaoín Lynch.

Poetry Encounters

WORD VOMIT presents: Leyla Josephine + support from Jess McKinney

Hazel Press is a truly independent publisher that only sells through independent bookshops and publishes texts with a focus on the environment, the realities of climate change, feminism and the arts.

We’re very proud to welcome three of their poets — Alys Fowler, Jess McKinney and Helen Mort — to Camp Good Life 2022.

"I heard the sound of little fishes" An Evening of Song & Verse

Museum of Literature Ireland: First Fridays

Join us for a evening of poetry from the wonderful Jess McKinney and Jessica Traynor.

In this episode we’re celebrating some of the exceptional writing produced during our annual Poetry Summer School.

John Clegg and Jess McKinney launch their new Hazel Press poetry collections with reading and conversation.

Book Launch: The New Frontier A landmark anthology from some of Ireland’s greatest contemporary writers, marking the centenary of partition.

Conversations: Emily S Cooper with James Conor Patterson and Jess McKinney

The series kicked off with a webinar (available as a replay) featuring four guest poets with varied vantage points: a practicing expert on art-influenced writing, an MIT-trained biologist whose poems read between the lines of genetics papers, an Irish poet who responds to anime and mantis shrimp, and a conceptual artist whose asemic poems are themselves visual artworks. In short presentations, each guest offered “a glimpse through their glasses,” shared their poetic perspective, and introduced writing prompts for the audience to try at home.