Ó Bhéal go Béal presents Ellen Dillon

Monday 8th September
The Hayloft Bar
7.30pm
free event

19:30 Poetry Event Screenings
20:30 Five Word Challenge
21:30 Guest: Ellen Dillon
22:15 Open mic (all welcome)

Ellen Dillon is a poet and writer of exploratory prose from Limerick.

Her most recent books are Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel (HVTN, 2023) and tentatives (Pamenar Press, 2023). She has also published Butter Intervention (Veer 2, 2022), Morsel May Sleep (Sublunary Editions, 2021), and Sonnets to Malkmus (Sad Press, 2019). In 2024 she was awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland and her manuscript of lyric essay and prose poetry, A Whale Called Milieu, was shortlisted for the inaugural Prototype Prize for ‘writers and artists working at the intersections of different literary and artistic forms.’ Her hybrid lyric essay/ apocalyptic verse novella How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2026. She is 2025 Arts Council Writer in Residence in UCC.

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