Upcoming Readings & Events
Belfast Book Festival
Greens, Tolls, Weeds: Zaffar Kunial,
Jess McKinney & Emma Must
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
Saturday 26 August 2023,
2.00pm - 5.30pm,
Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy
with Alice Lyons, Niall Campbell, Emma Must, Martin Dyar & Zaffar Kunial (event continues on Sunday)
Book tickets here
Past Readings & Events
Cúirt International Festival of Literature
A Changing Climate: Writing, Activism and the Environment
Manchán Magan, Eoghan Daltun &
Emma Must in conversation with Ceara Carney
Saturday 22 April 2023, 1.00pm
Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Cúirt International Festival of Literature
with Daisy Lafarge, Emma Must
and Selina Nwulu
Thursday 20 April 2023, 4.30pm
Nuns Island Theatre, Galway
For the Love of the World: Eco Writing
with Emma Must, Eoghan Daltun and Grace Wells, presented by Keith Payne
Wednesday 19 April 2023, 8.00pm
The City Library, Grand Parade, Cork
a collaboration of science and art
Quotidian - Word on the Street
& the Institute for Global Food Security
at Queen's University Belfast
Project launch
Tuesday13th December 2022
The Institute for Global Food Security
at Queen's University Belfast,
19 Chlorine Gardens,
Belfast
Window on Wildlife
RSPB Belfast
Belfast Lough
Q and A
Friday 9th December 2022
with Professor Moyra Haslett and her students, on The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday, ecopoetry, and the Romantics
Debut poetry collection launch
6.00 - 7.00pm
Thursday 8th December 2022
No Alibis Bookstore
83 Botanic Avenue
Belfast BT7 1JL
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
Traverse
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/FEST 18 Belfast
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
20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement
'Belfast Pastoral' performed at Ulster Hall
Freedom of the City of Belfast Event
for Sir Kenneth Branagh
January 2018
'Belfast Pastoral' read by Julia Dearden
at Ulster Hall
Belfast Book Festival
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 Festival
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 Festival
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 ní 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
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