Name: Book Launch: Coracle
Start: 2026-11-08T15:30:00Z
End: 2026-11-08T16:15:00Z
Location: Royal Irish Academy of Music

Book Launch: Coracle

Dublin Book Festival is one of Ireland’s most successful and dynamic book festivals, running since 2006 in the heart of Ireland’s capital with its rich literary history. ​This annual public festival is a celebration of Ireland’s writers and publishers. It showcases, supports and develops Irish writers and publishing by programming and promoting Irish books and their authors, editors and contributors, all in an entertaining, festive, friendly and accessible environment.Dublin Book Festival 2026 will take place across Dublin City from 4 - 8 November  2026For general queries please emailinfo@dublinbookfestival.com

Dublin Book Festival

Join us for the launch of Coracle, the fourth collection by acclaimed poet Jane Clarke

Royal Irish Academy of Music

Dublin Book Festival 2026

Dublin Book Festival 2026 brings over 120 events to venues all around Dublin City from November 4 - 8.

Join us for the launch of Coracle (Bloodaxe Books), the fourth collection by acclaimed poet Jane Clarke, which explores what it means to care for each other and the natural world in the midst of social and environmental jeopardy. Exploring lives, language and landscape, these finely observed, distilled and intimate poems reflect on our kinship with all living things, facing the reality of loss while celebrating acts of restoration that inspire hope. Author and academic Belinda McKeon will introduce the collection.While this event is free, by making one of your tickets a 'Supporter's Ticket' you will be making a valuable contribution towards keeping future events accessible and towards the sustainable growth of Dublin Book Festival.Please note we may be capturing candid imagery at this event for use on our social media and website.Jane Clarke is the author of four poetry collections with Bloodaxe Books, The River (2015), When the Tree Falls (2019), A Change in the Air (2023) and Coracle (2026). She edited the illustrated anthology Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023) and co-authored with Catherine Cleary The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature (New Island Books, 2025). In 2016 Jane won the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry and the inaugural Listowel Writer’s Week Poem of the Year Award. Jane’s third collection A Change in the Air was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. Jane grew up on a farm in Co. Roscommon and now lives in the Wicklow uplands. She is particularly interested in how poetry can support collective action to protect and restore nature at this time of environmental breakdown.Belinda McKeon is the author of the novels Solace (2011) and Tender (2015). She directs the MA in Creative Writing at Maynooth University.To hear first about future Dublin Book Festival events sign up to our newsletter<a href="https://dublinbookfestival.com/sign-up-to-our-newsletter/" title="https://dublinbookfestival.com/sign-up-to-our-newsletter/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> here</a>.

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