In-Person Launch at Chapters Bookstore

We’re delighted to say that the in-person launch of Channel Issue 11 will take place in Chapters Bookstore, Parnell Street, on Friday 22 November from 6.30pm–8.30pm.

Attendance is free, with no registration required, and all are very welcome to join us.

The evening will feature readings from Diarmuid Cawley, Brendan MacEvilly, Keev Ó Baoill and David Ralph, along with some tunes from our musical guests, We’re Not Together.

Diarmuid Cawley is from Sligo, Ireland. His poems have featured in The Martello, The Belfast Review, Trasna, Smashing Times, Unapologetic Mag, Moonstone Press, Guzzle Magazine, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry as Commemoration, Channel and Howl. He is working on his first collection.

Brendan Mac Evilly is the author of At Swim: A Book About the Sea (2016, Collins Press). He runs Holy Show arts magazine and production house, and runs the National Mentoring Programme on behalf of the Irish Writers Centre. His debut novel Deep Burn is forthcoming with Marrowbone Books in 2025.

Is file agus scríbhneoir aiteach agus tras é Keev Ó Baoill (siad/é) atá bunaithe i mBaile Átha Cliath. Beidh a phaimfléad dar teideal the end of the fucking world / shitty airport poems foilsithe le Back Room Poetry i mí na Samhna, 2024. Tá a chuid scríbhneoireacht foilsithe in Channel, Back Room Poetry, Vernacular Journal, Gnashing Teeth Mag, Powders Press, Ache Magazine agus in áiteachaí eile. Is féidir teacht ar Keev @keevobaoill ar Twitter agus Instagram.

Keev (Boyle-Darby) Ó Baoill (they/he) is a trans, Irish poet and writer. His upcoming chapbook the end of the fucking world / shitty airport poems is due to be published by Back Room Poetry in November 2024. Keev is Co-founder of tinycrowdcollective (@tinycrowdzine), a queer, trans-led zine looking to capture moments of intensity, banality, and everything in between. Their work has been published by Channel, Gnashing Teeth, Vernacular Journal, Back Room Poetry, Powders Press, SEXTANT, GCN, The Places Zine and Ache Magazine among others. You can find them and their work on socials (@keevobaoill) or at linktr.ee/kvrbyrl.

David Ralph’s work has been published in The Dublin Review, Banshee, Southword, Litro, Fish, and New Irish Writing. He won a New Irish Writing Award in 2020. In 2021 he was a recipient of a place on the Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme. In 2022 he placed third in the Fish Memoir Prize.