Poetry: Jan Brierton and Maia Dunphy

“Part of Jan Brierton's Wild Words does Teenage Kicks. Dublin poet and performer Jan Brierton — whose collections What Day Is It? and Everybody Is a Poem both hit the Irish book charts in the same week — opens her Manifesto weekend alongside writer and broadcaster Maia Dunphy. Dunphy spent over a decade writing and producing behind the camera before stepping in front of it, has made twelve documentaries for RTÉ, presented three seasons of What Planet Are You On?, and ghostwrote the Mr Tayto autobiography that famously kept Bertie Ahern off the Christmas number one. Expect poems, stories and a nod to the music, telly and misadventures that shaped them.”