In this episode, Trevor Joyce, poet and founder of the SoundEye Festival of the Arts of the Word, talks with fellow poets and festival organisers, Ellen Dillon and Fergal Gaynor, about twenty-one years of poetry and the avant-garde in Cork and beyond. The conversation takes place in the same building, UCC Library, where the SoundEye Collection, of books, memorabilia, recordings and archival material, will be housed.
Trevor Joyce, born in Dublin in 1947, is the author of numerous poetry collections, the first being Sole Glum Trek (1967), and the most recent Possession (2026). He is a member of Aosdána.
Ellen Dillon is the author of, among other poetry collections, Sonnets to Malkmus (2019) and Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel (2023). She was UCC writer-in-residence in 2025 and her most recent work, of essay, prose poetry and fiction − A Whale Called Milieu − was shortlisted for the Prototype Prize.
Fergal Gaynor is a poet and critic based in Cork. 2025 saw the publication of his Clio’s Ground: New and Selected Poems and Geoffrey Squires in Conversation with Fergal Gaynor. He is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art.
Additional music and performance: Margaret Barry – She Moves Through the Fair; Niña de los Peines – Alegrias; Los Langeros – Killing Frogs; Jaap Blonk – from 8 Mechanical Statements; Maurice Scully – Bread.
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