LAUNCH: (S)worn State(s) - December 16, 2024 - Museum of Literature Ireland

Drawing upon social history, myth, and visionary poetics, (S)worn State(s) remembers, challenges, and reimagines ‘worn’ narratives of women’s experiences in the context of shifting historical and cultural landscapes in the Irish Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 and beyond. In an extended poetic conversation, Kimberly Campanello, Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Dimitra Xidous created a suite of individual poems before co-authoring the long poem Her-Text that reinscribes and ‘swears’ an oath to new and unfolding ‘states’ of being and making.

The poems were created in Dublin, York, Achill Island and at the Boyne Valley. The texture of the language emerges from the Donegal Gaeltacht, Greece, Italy and North America. In 2019, the project received the inaugural Markievicz Award for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, allowing the poets generous space to come together and create this work. Through the book’s design and production, Jamie Murphy has nurtured the delicate relationship among texts, creating a powerful narrative guided by space, rhythm and typographic sensibility.

The book will be launched by Dr Lucy Collins (UCD).

Books will be on display and made available during the launch, for further details and pre-publication orders please refer to www.thesalvagepress.com.

Details: 6:30pm Monday, December 16th, 2024 Museum of Literature Ireland 86 St Stephen’s Green Dublin 2, D02XY4

Host or Publisher Dimitra Xidous