Poetry Reading

Dane Holt and Mai Ishikawa

Wednesday 30 July | 11.15am | £12

Dane Holt’s debut Pamphlet, Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire, was published by Lifeboat Press in 2023 and was a Poetry Book Society Autumn Pamphlet Choice. His debut collection, Father’s Father’s Father, was published by Carcanet and was a 2025 Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation. He was the 2023 Ciaran Carson Publishing Fellow at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast, and is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.

Mai Ishikawa is a Japanese theatre translator, theatre maker and poet based in Dublin. She has translated several plays into Japanese for full productions. She won the Unohana prize in the 8th Kyoto Writing Competition and was shortlisted in the Westival International Poetry Competition 2024. Her poems have appeared in literary journals the Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, the Storms and Ink Sweat & Tears and in the anthology Beginnings Over and Over curated by Leanne Quinn (Dedalus Press).