Lime Square Poets Featuring: Anne McDonald

Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Anne McDonald followed by Open Mic!

7:45pm - Sign up for Open Mic on Zoom chat

8:00pm - Anne McDonald reading

8:15pm - Open Mic begins

9:10pm - Announcements and Farewells

Anne McDonald is a spoken word poet,  artist, creative writing teacher and festival curator. Her work is centered on the challenges we face in a society that is changing rapidly and how we respond or react to those changes. Through her writing she explores themes of parenthood, aging, death, loss, inclusion and response to the human condition. Through her art she explores our connection and sometimes disconnect with nature, and the effect mankind has on nature. She in interested in the power of enabling people who would otherwise not be considered “writers or artists” to find ways to give voice and space to their own creative experience. She was awarded  The Irish Writers Residency in Cill Rialag, Kerry.

She has had work published in Women’s News, Hot Press, Electric Acorn, Woman’s Work Anthologies 1 & 2, The Blue Nib, The Strokestown Anthology, The Waxed Lemon, The Storms Inaugural Issue, Fragments Of Time, Blue Mondays' Anthology 2021, 192 Magazine, & several issues of Live Encounters Online. Her work has also been featured on collaborations with musicians and animators and reviewed and broadcast on RTE Radio. Anne has an M.Phil in Creative Writing. Her first collection of poetry Crow’s Books was published in 2020 and her second collection “Clothespeg in my pocket” will be published in Autumn 2023.

Participation is limited to the first 100 guests to join.