Sian performs her poem ‘Gay Spar’. It is about the street corners of Dublin, and who owns them. It’s about chicken fillet rolls, cheesy tunes, and cheese and onion crisps at 3am. It’s about stepping out of the closet, and stepping into a world which subtly, but insistently, does not belong to you.

Elaine’s poem ‘Girls in the Woods’ is inspired by time spent in Monivea Woods in Co. Galway. Elaine talks about how Patrick Kavanagh and Rita Ann Higgins’ poems inspired her. She describes how poems can come to her while walking in the woods and the differences between writing poetry and fiction.