Introducing the lineup for the launch of Issue 15

Jessica Foley is a poet from Offaly, living and working in North Dublin City. Her teaching, writing and research emerges with people and place through processes of deep listening, slow looking, embodied improvisation and play. She is a lecturer with the Department of Visual Arts and Humanities at IADT, Dún Laoghaire.

Meredith MacLeod Davidson is a Glasgow-based poet and writer, originally from Virginia. They are the author of Transpiration (ignitionpress, 2025), a pamphlet of poetry which considers the possibilities for intimacy with the natural world around us and with each other. Meredith’s most recent work appears in journals which include The Poetry Review, Perverse, Wet Grain and Dykehouse Press’s The Rush.

Liam Maguire is a writer from Louth. His work has appeared in The Four Faced Liar, The Honest Ulsterman, HOWL, Púca and Aimsir. He was the recipient of the Guthrie Bursary 2025 from the Irish Writers Centre. He is currently working on his first novel.

DS Maolalai has been described by one editor as ‘a cosmopolitan poet’ and another as ‘prolific, bordering on incontinent’. His work has been nominated fourteen times for BOTN, eleven for the Pushcart and once for the Forward Prize, and released in three collections, most recentlyNoble Rot (Turas Press, 2022).