Anne Donnellan and Emer Lyons

Anne Donnellan has published two collections of poetry with Revival Press Limerick. Her second collection If Only We Could Bottle It was brought out in December 2025. Anne’s work has been widely published in various poetry journals and anthologies. She was the 2023 winner of the Allingham Poetry Competition. She is the curator and host of the Galway Poetry Lobby events.

Emer Lyons is a writer, performer and researcher from West Cork living in Galway. Her work-in-progress ROOM(S) was part of Galway Theatre Festival in May and her choreopoem PART(S)(W)HOLE was part of the Westend Theatre & Arts Festival in July and Scene + Heard festival in Dublin last year. She was the Áras Éanna Artist in Residence on Inis Oírr and the recipient of a Creative Practitioner Bursary, both in association with the Galway City Council. She was an awardee of the 2025 Irish Writers Centre Annaghmakerrig Residency. She is one of four poets in the anthology Beginnings Over and Over. Sponsored by Bobby and Truly Gilmore