Readings & Events
Talking about Lorca
to local school children
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Shirley-Anne McMillan,
Grapefruit Moon
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​Emma Must,
The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday
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​hosted by Stephen Connolly​
Seamus Heaney Centre,
Queen's University Belfast
Tuesday 15 October 2024
5.00 - 6.45pm
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Poetry Ireland Review Issue 143
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Launch
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with readings by contributors including: Paul Maddern,
Emma Must, and Stephen Sexton
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No Alibis Bookstore, Belfast
​​Tuesday 27 August 2024
6 - 7pm​
Reach '24
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New Festival of Arts & Sustainability at Queen's University Belfast
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An Artist / Practitioner Perspective
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Queen's University Belfast
Friday 19 April 2024
1.45 - 3.00pm
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​​'The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday:
a Poetry Reading', Emma Must
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VERVE 2024 Poetry Festival
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Out of Time: Poetry from the
Climate Emergency
Birmingham Hippodrome
in person and livestream
Saturday 24 February 2024
2.00 - 3.30pm
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with Seán Hewitt, Ella Duffy, Romalyn Ante, Rishi Dastidar,
and Emma Must. Chaired by Kate Simpson.
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Poetry Reading (via Zoom):
Emma Must and Fred D’Aguiar
Cork / Livestream
Saturday 25 November 2023
2.30 to 4.00pm
Seamus Heaney HomePlace
Bellaghy
Thursday 23 November 2023
7.30pm
Poetry Jukebox: FORAGE
Launch
Institute for Global Food Security
Wednesday 27 September 2023
10.30am
19 Chlorine Gardens,
Belfast BT9 5DL
BBC Contains Strong Language
The Laurel Prize for Nature & Ecopoetry
Ceremony & Readings
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Friday 22 September 2023
3.30pm - 5.00pm
Crescent Arts Centre
Thursday 14 September 2023
11.15am
2 - 4 University Road
Belfast
Ciaran Carson Conference
Queen's University Belfast
Wednesday 13 September 2023
4.15pm - 5.30pm
Canada Room & Council Chambers
Seamus Heaney HomePlace
'A Note That Pays You Back': Ten Poets Read and Reflect
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney HomePlace
Bellaghy
Saturday 26 August 2023
2.00pm - 5.30pm
with Alice Lyons, Niall Campbell, Emma Must, Martin Dyar & Zaffar Kunial (event continues on Sunday)
Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre
Armagh
Tuesday 25 July 2023,11.15am
Belfast Book Festival
Greens, Tolls, Weeds: Zaffar Kunial,
Jess McKinney & Emma Must
The Crescent, Belfast
Thursday 15 June 2023
4.30pm
Cúirt International Festival of Literature
A Changing Climate: Writing, Activism
Manchán Magan, Eoghan Daltun &
Emma Must in conversation with Ceara Carney
Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Saturday 22 April 2023
1.00pm
Cúirt International Festival of Literature
with Daisy Lafarge, Emma Must
and Selina Nwulu
Nuns Island Theatre, Galway
Thursday 20 April 2023
4.30pm
For the Love of the World: Eco Writing
with Emma Must, Eoghan Daltun and Grace Wells, presented by Keith Payne
The City Library, Grand Parade, Cork
Wednesday 19 April 2023, 8.00pm
earth
a collaboration of science and art
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Quotidian - Word on the Street
& the Institute for Global Food Security
at Queen's University Belfast
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Project launch
The Institute for Global Food Security
Tuesday13th December 2022
Queen's University Belfast
19 Chlorine Gardens
Belfast
Window on Wildlife
RSPB Belfast
Belfast Lough
Q and A
on The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday, ecopoetry, and the Romantics
Friday 9th December 2022
with Professor Moyra Haslett, School of English, QUB, and her students
Debut poetry collection launch
6.00 - 7.00pm
Thursday 8th December 2022
No Alibis Bookstore
83 Botanic Avenue
Belfast BT7 1JL
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Photo by Paul Maddern
Book launch
Wednesday 12th October 2022
Books Upstairs,
17 D’Olier Street,
Dublin 2,
D02 RX06,
Ireland
What Northern Ireland Means to Me
Shared Future News
Book launch
Friday 29th April 2022
Accidental Theatre,
12-13 Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, BT2 7DB
EastSide Arts Festival 2021
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times:
Paul Behrens in conversation with Emma Must and Andrea Montgomery
Thursday 12 August 2021
7.30-8.30pm
Online
John Hewitt International Summer School 2021
Inspiring A Sustainable Future: The Role Of The Arts In Facing The Climate Crisis
With Prof. John Barry and Emma Must in Armagh and Emmi Itäranta live from Finland
Wednesday 28 July 2021
Marketplace Theatre, Armagh, & Online
TraverseÂ
April 2021
St Stephen's College, New Delhi
(Remote message)
'Languages of Poetry: Understanding Resistance & Isolation'
John Hewitt Society
November 2020
Online
Community Arts Partnership Belfast
October 2020
Online
Arts and Business Awards
Lyric Theatre, Belfast
January 2020
'Belfast Pastoral' performed by HIVE Choir
C S Lewis Festival
November 2018
East Belfast
Festival Launch Breakfast Reading
RES/FESTÂ 18 BelfastÂ
Courtauld Institute
October 2018
Reading of commissioned poems at the Ulster Museum, with Stephen Sexton, Padraig Regan & Caitlin Newby
Duncairn Arts Centre
August 2018
North Belfast
'50' Event Reading
Freedom of the City of Belfast Event
for President Bill Clinton
& Senator George Mitchell
April 2018
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20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement
'Belfast Pastoral'Â performed at Ulster Hall
Freedom of the City of Belfast Event
for Sir Kenneth BranaghÂ
January 2018
'Belfast Pastoral'Â read by Julia Dearden
at Ulster Hall
Belfast Book FestivalÂ
June 2017
The Best New British & Irish Poets 2017
Launch Reading
Waterstones, Belfast
December 2016
All Through the Night, by Marie Heaney
Launch Reading
Belfast International Festival
October 2016
Hewitt Birthday Poetry Reading
with Alan Gillis, Iggy McGovern
& Frank Ormsby
Seamus Heaney Homeplace
September 2016
Opening Day Reading with Rachael Hegarty, Julie Morrissy & others; performance directed by David Grant
Derwent FestivalÂ
November 2015
Portfolio Award Pamphlet Reading
St Stephen's College, New Delhi
August 2015
Poetry Reading
Central University of Tamil Nadu, India
August 2015
Poetry Reading
Templar Poetry Live
Keats House, London
June 2015
Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe
Launch Reading, with Erin Halliday
Belfast Book FestivalÂ
June 2015
Lifeboat Reading, with David Wheatley and Francine Elena
No Alibis Bookshop, Belfast
April 2015
Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe
Launch
Linen Hall Writers' Forum
January 2015
Belfast
Reading with Jan Carson
Belfast Festival
Skainos Centre, East Belfast
October 2014
Nuala nà Dhomhnaill reading
100,000 Poets for Change
September 2014
Bookfinders, Belfast
Reading with Moyra Donaldson, Nandi Jola and Shelley Tracey
One City, One Book
May 2014
Belfast
Poetry Reading
Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival
December 2013
Belfast
'From the Republic of Conscience'
Poetry Reading, with Sinéad Morrissey,
Stephen Sexton & others
Poetry & Audience 60th Anniversary
October 2013
University of Leeds
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Poetry Reading: Poetry & Audience Poets
Past and Present
National Museums Northern Ireland
and The John Hewitt Society
February 2013
Ulster Museum
Poetry Reading with Michael Longley
Ulster Hall 150th Anniversary
May 2012
'If the Walls Could Talk' Poetry Reading
International Women's Day
March 2012
Ulster Hall
Lunchtime Music and Poetry
Irish Pages
December 2011
Belfast