POETRY: David McLoghlin, Kelly Michels & Mark Ward
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It is our pleasure to present the an afternoon of poetry celebrating new work from Irish poets David McLoghlin, Kelly Michels and Mark Ward. All are welcome to join us at 2pm in the first floor café of Books Upstairs on Sunday 8th September.
ABOUT THE POETS:
David McLoghlin is the author of three collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry, most recently Crash Centre (May 2024). His work has appeared widely in journals of note, been featured in film and broadcast on WNYC’s Radiolab. A Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship Recipient in 2023, he was selected as one of two poets to represent Ireland on the Versopolis European Network in 2023. He won the Open category in the 2018 Voices of War International Poetry Competition and received a major Literature Bursary from The Arts Council. His writing has been anthologised in Distant Summers: Remembering Philip Casey (Arlen House, 2024) and Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing (Penguin Random House, 2020). He was a Teaching Fellow at New York University’s Creative Writing Programme, and has taught literature and creative writing at NYU, UCD, the American College, Dublin and UCD’s innovative Poetry as Commemoration project, and has featured at West Cork Literature Festival, The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival (USA) and Cork International Poetry Festival.
Kelly Michels is the author of American Anthem, a new release from Gallery Press, selected for the Forward Prize shortlist for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. She relocated to Ireland from the United States in 2019 and completed her PhD at UCD. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Tampa Review, Best New Poets and New Ohio Review. She has published two pamphlets, Mother and Child with Flowers (2012) and Disquiet (2015), and has received the Rachel Wetzsteon Poetry Prize from the 92nd Street ‘Y’, the Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. She lives in Dublin.
Mark Ward is the author of Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023) and four chapbooks including the interactive branching sonnet, Faultlines (voidspace, 2024). Forthcoming books include the queer ekphrastic chapbook Masters (Emma Press, 2025) and a second collection Real Estate (Salmon Poetry, 2026). He edits Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry.
