PLEASE NOTE
Bookings for this event open to the general public on Friday 18 September 2026.
However, you can secure your ticket in advance of this by using the Promo Code GREEN2026.
IN-PERSON POETRY and MUSIC WALKING TOUR
in partnership with Dublin Book Festival and TU Dublin
As part of the Dublin Book Festival, we invite you to join us with acclaimed poet Jane Clarke for a walk through TU Dublin’s Grangegorman campus based on her latest collection Coracle (Bloodaxe Books, 2026). We will pause along the way for poetry with Jane and music with the TU Dublin Conservatoire, while also paying attention to the biodiversity being nurtured on the campus.
POETRY and MUSIC WALKING TOUR
WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2026 – 11:00 to 12:00 (Irish time)
(registration starts at 10:45)
Venue:
Lower House, TU Dublin, Grangegorman, Dublin, D07 N6R2.
As always at our events,
an important part will be the
Q&A session
which will allow full
participation by those attending.
About Our Guest Speaker
JANE CLARKE
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 County 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.
GETTING THERE
The Lower House is situated in TU Dublin Grangegorman and here is a map to help you locate it.
Please note that parking is limited. There is some on-street parking available but please use the excellent public transport links if possible.
TICKET DETAILS
While admission is FREE to this event, registration is REQUIRED.
Please secure your place by booking here.
THEME
Acclaimed poet Jane Clarke will walk through TU Dublin’s Grangegorman campus based on her latest collection Coracle (Bloodaxe Books, 2026), which explores what it means to care for each other and the natural world in the midst of social and environmental jeopardy. 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. We will pause along the way for poetry with Jane and music with the TU Dublin Conservatoire, while also paying attention to the biodiversity being nurtured on the campus.
This event is part of Dublin Book Festival 2026.