Stephen James Smith | My Ireland Tour

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Renowned Dublin performance poet & playwright STEPHEN JAMES SMITH brings his brilliant “My Ireland” poetry tour to the Droichead stage this Autumn, promoting his new book of poetry Fear Not. The performance will feature Irish musician Enda Reilly.

As at home on large stages, as small ones, alongside musicians and spoken word artists, Stephen is truly versatile and impressive. He has performed at high profile events & venues such as Electric Picnic, other voices, The National Concert Hall in Dublin, The Barbican in London, Vicar Street & the London Palladium, The Oscar Wilde Awards in Los Angeles, Glastonbury Festival and many more. To date, his poetry videos have amassed over 1 million views online.

In 2017 he was commissioned by St. Patrick’s Festival to write a new poem as a “Celebratory Narrative” of Ireland. The resultant piece ‘My Ireland’ is accompanied by a short film which has been viewed over 300,000 times and was screened at the London Film Festival.

Stephen is a co-founder of LINGO Festival (inaugural festival in 2014), Ireland’s only spoken word festival, and poetry curator of the annual First Fortnight Festival. He co-produced Dublin: A Year in Words poetry video series for Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.

“Passionate, witty, just plain great” – Roddy Doyle

“Here are poems fuelled by the raw urgency of language leaping to meet the world.” – Paula Meehan

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