10 April,
Poetry /
Poetry Reading: Kayo Chingonyi, Dane Holt, Gustav Parker Hibbett
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 7:00pm
The Mick Lally Theatre / €12.00 | €10.00
Book NowWe are delighted to welcome three remarkable poets to Cúirt. Their work explores identity and its possible deconstructions with a sense of playfulness and wit.
Author of two collections, Kumukanda and A Blood Condition, Kayo Chingonyi navigates the in-between spaces of the historical and contemporary, and of life and death. In doing so, he crafts a place for himself in the poetic landscape.
Dane Holt’s debut collection, Father’s Father’s Father, scrutinises contemporary masculinity, community, and the legacy of grief both personal and communal, while maintaining a sense of the humorous and absurd.
Gustav Parker Hibbett published their first collection in the summer of 2024. High Jump as Icarus Story draws from personal experience and myth alike, deconstructing notions of identity and crafting their own mythology while casting a new light on recognisable figures.
Kayo Chingonyi FRSL was born in Zambia in 1987, and moved to the UK at the age of six. He is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry and of The Civitella Ranieri Foundation. In 2012, he was awarded a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize by The Poetry Society and was Associate Poet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 2015. His first full-length collection, Kumukanda, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. Kayo was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester before joining Durham University as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. He was writer and presenter for the music and culture podcast Decode on Spotify, is poetry editor at Bloomsbury, and his most recent collection A Blood Condition was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and the Costa Poetry Award. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. His first long form prose work, a memoir entitled Prodigal, is forthcoming from 4th Estate.
Dane Holt’s debut collection Father’s Father’s Father (Carcanet) and was a Poetry Book Society Spring 2025 Recommendation. He was the 2023 Ciaran Carson Publishing Fellow at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast. He is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.
Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout. They grew up in New Mexico and are currently pursuing a PhD in Literary Practice at Trinity College Dublin, where they are an Early Career Research Fellow at the Long Room Hub. Their debut poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press), was shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize.
