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Macha Press Presents: Sam Furlong and Eilish Martin
September 23, 2025 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
€10
Eilish Martin is a poet and artist with two published collections: ‘Slitting the Tongues of Jackdaws (1999)’ and ‘Ups Bounce Dash (2008)’. Her work features widely in national and international journals and anthologies. She has contributed translations to Seán Ó Ríordáin’s Selected Poems (Yale University Press, 2014) and When the Neva Rushes Backwards, a bilingual anthology of Russian poetry (Lagan Press, 2014).
Sam Furlong is a Dublin-based writer working in poetry and prose. They completed an MA in Poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre and received the Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award in 2023. Their work has appeared in numerous respected publications and they have been part of Poetry Ireland’s National Mentorship Programme and Introductions Series. Sam is currently developing a short story collection supported by the Agility Award and a scholarship to The Stinging Fly’s workshop. They are also Poetry Editor of the Frustrated Writers’ Group, with their debut poetry collection, Crowd Work, having been published by Macha Press in May of this year.
Sponsored by: Kingstown House