Poetry Town laureate for Wexford, Sasha Terfous, will read in the library courtyard.

Her professional career as a poet began in 2016 with Word Up Collective, a newly formed group bringing together Irish artists working in rap, hip-hop, and spoken word. Since then, she has performed for Red Bull, RTÉ Ireland, Dance 2 Connect, and other venues and events. In 2019, she participated in the Female Tribes project, the largest global study on contemporary women to date, becoming a voice for its arrival in Ireland. The poem she wrote for the occasion, Warrior Women, is a vehement, urgent response to the study’s findings that it has never been better to be a woman in Ireland.

Sasha will be joined by young Wexford poet Sinead O’Reilly, one of the youngest poets ever to be published by The Irish Times (Ode to the Milkman). A four time award winner in the Trocaire Poetry Ireland Competition, Sinéad has also been commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, the Patrick Kavanagh Student Poetry Awards and the RVEEH poetry competition. She was selected for the inaugural Edna O’Brien Young Writers Bursary. In 2019 she read alongside Paula Meehan at the Write ByThe Sea Festival in Kilmore Quay.

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