Book tour dates for À la belle étoile –The odyssey of Jeanne Baré

Jeanne kept me company during Lockdown. While I was pacing up and down on our small beach, gazing out at the wide ocean, I was being transported by Glynis Ridley's biography of Jeanne Baré's odyssey. In the mid-1700s, Jeanne, a young peasant, orphan and self-taught herbalist, through a chance encounter with a botanist, became the first woman to circumnavigate the world, a feat she accomplished by disguising her sex. My collection is written in her voice. I am grateful to the Arts Council for an Agility Award to write this collection. I'm also delighted to say it's been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

The book is available to buy from the Salmon Poetry website and bookshop: https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=631&a=221

And also from Books Upstairs: https://booksupstairs.ie/product/a-la-belle-etoile-the-odyssey-of-jeanne/

And from Waterstone's and other good independent bookshops.

Please come along, if you can, to one of my readings. My book tour (which will shortly be updated to include extra locations and dates) is currently as follows:

20th May, 6.30pm: Waterstone's, 69 Patrick Street, Cork. Launched by Tom Moore.

1st June, 2pm: Books Upstairs, 17 D’Olier Street, D02 RX06, Dublin 2. A shared launch with Luke Morgan, author of Blood Atlas.

18th June, 6.30pm, Irish Writers Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1. An Out of Towners showcase.

9th July, 8.30pm, De Barra's Spoken Word, Clonakilty, Co Cork.

27th July, 7.30pm, Castleisland Arts Night, Browne's Bar, Castleisland, Co Kerry.

20th September: International Dublin Writers Festival, Academy Plaza Hotel, O'Connell Street Upper, D01 X2X0, Dublin 1.

5th October, 12 noon, Words by Water, Kinsale Literary Festival, Prim's Bookshop, Kinsale, Co Cork.