THE CONVERSATION is coming to Cúirt Festival this Tuesday at 9pm at the Hardiman Hotel in Galway, featuring Jo Burns & Emily Cooper, MC'd by Jessica Traynor

BIG thanks to all the lovelies that came out on Thursday to help us celebrate the beauty that is THE CONVERSATION by the wonderful Jo Burns & Emily Cooper.

And huge thanks also to Isadora Epstein, a true Mistress of Ceremony!!

Wonderful launch of
the CONVERSATION this evening with Emily Cooper & Jo Burns and Doire Press in the very lovely surroundings of the Teachers Club.

‘The Conversation’ by ⁦Emily Cooper⁩ & Jo Burns ⁦Doire Press⁩ in the Teacher’s Club this evening.

This is such beautiful, ambitious work✨

Such a great launch for THE CONVERSATION by Jo Burns and Emily Cooper.

The book is an immersive exploration of relationships and power, the stories women tell themselves to survive, beauty and art. Make it your weekend read.

Bravo Doire Press.

Things are hopping here at the Teachers’s Club for the launch of THE CONVERSATION by Jo Burns and ⁦Emily Cooper⁩!!

Today in Dublin ⬇️⬇️⬇️

THE CONVERSATION by Jo Burns & Emily Cooper is coming to Cúirt Festival!!

Sunday the 28th in Cork!!

Cork World Book Fest Madeleine D'Arcy

Join me, Maurice Devitt and Christine Broe for our poetry reading in Dolphin's Barn Library next Wednesday 24th April at 6.30pm #PoetryDayIreland

Great start to the day Emily Cooper is in the house with Jo Burns
the CONVERSATION
🙏 Doire Press
#Wednesdayvibe #NewWriting #Irish

Celebrate all that is Cork & the great diversity of people who live there. Writers include Kevin Barry, Martina Evans, Danny Denton, Grainne Murphy & more. Including readings from contributors. Edited by Madeleine D’Arcy and Laura McKenna. @DoirePress St. Peter's Cork

Poets Jo Burns & Emily Cooper discuss their new collection 'The Conversation' which imagines a three-way dialogue amongst Picasso’s lovers and subjects Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot.

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So thrilled to be going to Stuttgart to do this! Thanks so much to Jessica for all her hard work. Looking forward to visiting Stuttgart with the mightily talented Paul Maddern and Scott McKendry . Thanks also to Zeitgeist Irland 24 @poetryjukebox #Quotidian🙌 Maria McManus 🇪🇺 Culture_Ireland
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*roughly shoves Monday to-do list to one side*

In just four days now!!!

This is shaping up to be a great morning! Hot off the press is Jo Burns and ⁦Emily Cooper⁩ ‘s collaboration ‘The Conversation’ (Doire Press) 🔥🔥🔥

This looks v exciting!

We’ve opened submissions! 12th April - 3rd May. To summarise: we’re looking for your best work, for writing that resists definition for stories & poems that strain against classification. gorse.ie/submission/

Today is World Parkinson’s Day. I have Parkinson’s (dx 2021 at 41). It is degenerative & incurable. I am linking to a couple things I have written & said about illness & care. The text in the photo is from my prose work-in-progress, A RAG, A MAP, A POCKET, A GRAVE.