Thursday 17 July 2025
11:30 am
Admission: Free
Confined by lockdown to her home in Bantry Bay and witnessing its changing face in a time of environmental degradation, Annette began to comb the landscape and archives of her locality in search of connection to the life of one of its most famous residents: nineteenth-century botanist Ellen Hutchins, who collected hundreds of seaweeds, lichens, mosses and liverworts and discovered several new species in the course of a short life spent tied to Bantry as a carer for her mother and brother. Her poetry chapbook Holdfast is the fruit of this creative inquiry – a poetic sequence taking its shape from the algae studied by Ellen, moving from tip to anchor-point; an act of friendship across centuries, and a paean both to the work of a great scientist and to the resilience of seaweed.
Annette Skade was born in Manchester and has lived for many years lived on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. Her award winning first collection, Thimblerig, was published by Bradshaw...
Read MoreJoanne McCarthy writes in Waterford in both English and Irish. Her poetry is widely published and anthologised. Her publication history includes Poetry Ireland Review, Aneas, Comhar, Rattle, Channel and The...
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