The Poetry Kiln Collective

Poet and comedian David Hynes has been performing up and down the country for almost a decade now. A veteran of electric picnic, body and soul, and many other festivals whose carcasses now lie in the ground. Soul-searching poems written in pain and humour born out of necessity, he has made fans everywhere, he has issued breath. He embarks now on what he is sure will be his biggest voyage yet. David Hynes doesn't like people who talk about themselves in the third person.

Annie Peter is a Dublin-based writer and spoken word artist. She connects her poetry performances with music, rhythm, and free movements. In 2022 she performed at Electric Picnic Festival and in February 2023 she hosted her debut headline show "Poetry & Beats" under her own banner. Her work has been published online in The Void Magazine, Dodging the Rain, The Outpost Éire, The Headlight Review, and has appeared in print in Dreich Magazine and The Amphibian.

Emmet O'Brien is not your generic poet, bursting into the scene in March 2017, Emmet has three poetry collections under his belt, the latest of which “The Illusion Of Perception” was made into a play adaptation. The launch event sold out in less than 12 hours. O'Brien has had many festival shows, playing Electric Picinc, Knockanstockan, Body & Soul, and All Together Now. In 2022, O'Brien had his poem "Story bud?" muralised onto the walls of temple bar in Dublin City Centre. Since then, O'Brien has played 2 shows in the Gate Theatre, supporting BAC's beat boxing adaptation of Frankenstein and published his latest video “Inner City Vocab”. With this, he brings Sppken Words to those, who didn’t know they were missing it yet.

Anna Doran is a poet and singer/songwriter from Dublin who has recently begun performing her writing as spoken word. She has an interest in the interplay between emotions and patterns of behaviour, family and collective trauma and the impact of oppressive systems on how we relate to each other and the world today. She is a mother, a teacher and a dramatherapist with a passion for inclusion and educational reform. Her poems are raw, honest and relatable portrayals of her experience of the human condition in all it's grime and glory.