We look forward to marking the release of Channel Issue 10 with both in-person and online launches. Whether you can join us in Dublin or prefer to tune in online, we can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Issue 10 is now available for pre-order. Those who can afford to further support our work may consider subscribing to Channel to receive each new issue upon its release, or becoming a patron to also receive access to our digital archive of back issues as well as acknowledgement in print and online.
In-Person Launch at Unit 44
We’re delighted to say that the in-person launch of Channel Issue 10 will take place in Unit 44 on Thursday 23 May from 7.00pm–9.00pm. We’re delighted to be partnering with this beautiful DIY space in Stoneybatter, managed by the Kirkos Ensemble, who have created Unit 44 as an open-minded, affordable hub for music and cultural production that might otherwise be unable to find a home in Dublin – check out their work here.
The event will feature readings by Issue 10 contributors, alongside a performance from musical guest Ellie O’Neill. Bespoke refreshments inspired by this issue’s contents will be provided by our 2024 Publishing Intern, artist and chef Emily Iseult Duggan.
Attendance is free, with no registration required – if you’re free on the night, come join us!
Accessibility: Unit 44 is wheelchair accessible, with ground floor access from the street. We regret, though, that there is no wheelchair accessible toilet in the building. For other accessibility queries, please contact the team at info@channelmag.org.
Our readers:
Daniel Galvin is from Co. Cork. His poems have appeared in The Moth, Skylight 47, Acumen, Honest Ulsterman, A New Ulster, ROPES, The West Texas Literary Review, Cork Words Anthology, Quarryman and Ofi Press Mexico.
Casey Jarrin is a poet, artist, educator, editor, and co-founder of the Late Night Diners poetry collective. Her work appears in Banshee, Abridged, Trumpet/Poetry Ireland, Belfield Literary Review, Stony Thursday Book, Eire/Ireland, and the Verve Anthology of Protest. Raised in New York, she received her English BA (Yale) and PhD (Duke), and now divides her time between Minnesota and Ireland. www.caseyjarrin.com
Recent poems by Fin Keegan appear in Howl, Propel, Drawn to the Light Press, Cold Mountain Review and the Amsterdam Quarterly and were shortlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize and Fish Poetry Prize in 2023. He lives in the West of Ireland.
Catherine Phil MacCarthy’s sixth collection, Catching Sight, is due for publication. She received the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2014, a residency at Varuna, the National Writers’ House, NSW, Australia, in October of 2022, and the Yeats Thoor Ballylee Poetry Prize in 2023 for her poem ‘Emblems.’ A native of Co. Limerick, she lives in Dublin. www.catherinepmaccarthy.com
Aodán McCardle is a poet and artist. He is a co-editor at Veer Books. His PhD is on Action as Articulation of the Contemporary Poem though physicality and doubt are the site of meaning and the stance respectively where the action operates. His current practice is improvised performance/writing/drawing as a finding out. He opened the Performance Month at Beton7,
Athens, in 2015, and the Performance Philosophy Centre, University of Surrey, in September 2016. He was a member of the anti-performance group LUC, London Under Construction, and the Collaborative/Improvisational Performance group Cuislí. He has three books, Shuddered and ISing (VEER Books) and Small Increments (BeirBua Press), and an online chapbook, LllOoVvee (Smithereens Press). Published in The Stinging Fly and Gorse. Recent work: Poetry as Commemoration PAC on the Poetry Jukebox at Galway City Museum, Stony Thursday Book for Limerick Arts Office and etchings exhibited with Derry Print Workshop October 23. Upcoming: a book of Concrete and Sound work from Veer Books in late 2024 and an exhibition of Painting at RCC Letterkenny in October–November 2025. He grew up in the mountains, moved to the city, lives by the sea.
Tomás Ó Ruairc lives in Lucan, Dublin, with his wife, Sara, four daughters and two dogs. He blogs at Sifting the Silence on Bazinga. He has previously published in Drawn to the Light and has published the poem ‘Conker’ in the Cathal Buí Poetry Publication 2021.
Devki Panchmatia is a poet working between Dublin and London. Her work can be found in Interpret Magazine and Gutter; she has read at Edinburgh’s Hidden Door Festival.
Jamie Samson is a writer from Dublin. His fiction has been published in The Irish Times, RTÉ Culture, and The Ogham Stone. He was shortlisted for the 2023 Francis MacManus Short Story Competition and was a finalist at the 2019 Hennessy Literary Awards in the First Fiction category.
Our musical guest:
Online Launch via YouTube Premiere
We continue to offer a digital launch for each issue in celebration of the broad community of Channel readers and contributors unable to join us for an in-person event in Dublin.
This issue’s online launch will take place via YouTube Premiere on Thursday 30 May, starting at 7.00pm. It will feature readings from local and international contributors, along with photography showcasing the environments that have inspired their work. Also included will be an introduction by cover artist Cecilia Bullo to her practice and the beautiful piece featured on this issue’s cover, A Chronic Exuberance – L’Exaltation de la Fleur, Episode I.
The launch video will be viewable below at the time of its release, or tune in directly via YouTube to join in the live chat.