Name: Chapters Bookstore Presents The Write Stuff
Start: 2026-06-12T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-12T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Chapters Bookstore

Chapters Bookstore Presents The Write Stuff

Chapters Bookstore

Join us for a fun night of music, poetry and craic as Chapters Bookstore presents "The Write Stuff" with amazing guests.

Chapters Bookstore presents an evening of Poetry Songs and laughter hosted by Steve O'Toole featuring Belfast singer/songwriter &amp; poet Andy White. We will also be joined by Dublin lyricist, writer &amp; artist Louise McKenna (of Runway Lights), and Wicklow writer &amp; actress Joy Coleen. Tickets are €5 each, a €5 gift voucher for Chapters Bookstore is included in the price of your ticketAndy WhiteIt is 40 years since the Belfast poet with a Dylanesque torrent of words, an acoustic guitar and a punk attitude released his debut LP Rave on Andy White. This and a subsequent series of literary albums have taken Andy around the world with songs such as Religious Persuasion, Street Scenes from my Heart and James Joyce’s Grave. Andy has co-written with the likes of Peter Gabriel and Allison Russell, has played in ALT with Liam Ó Maonlaí and Tim Finn, and has won Ireland's top songwriting awards. His most recent album The night is approaching though some would say it was morning was recorded live in Abbey Road Studios by John Leckie and is available on LP and CD. Andy’s books include poetry collection The Music of What Happens and novel 21st Century Troubadour. His recently published Written to be Read Quickly, is a volume of new and selected poems. Andy’s poetry is fast moving. By turns witty, playful, profound, cerebral and soulful, it takes us around the world in nearly fifty poems and lands us squarely back where we started but with a better perspective on what it means to be alive in a strange world that’s getting stranger all the time. Edited by Robert McLiam Wilson, Written to be Read Quickly is one chapter of Andy’s Collected Poems, and this edition is published in paperback and limited edition hardback by Belfast studio Arthouse. Louise McKennaIs a musician, writer, and multifaceted artist. She is the lyricist, singer, and one of the composers with North Dublin band Runway Lights.As a performer, and a musician, Louise also has stage experience as an actor, a stand-up comedian, and a storyteller.As a writer and editor, Louise has edited on topics as varied as serious plays, academic research, stand up and poetry. As an artist, Louise does all commercial work and merchandise designing for Runway Lights which includes cover art to editing the lyrics on music videos.Louise will be reading poems adapted from songs she has written with Runway Lights. Joy ColeenIs a spoken word poet hailing from West Wicklow. She is a self-professed "notes app poet" and has been performing spoken word for the last 10 years across many different poetry nights in Dublin. She also dabbles in storytelling, making it to the finals of the Dublin Story Slam Summer Grand Slam 2025. After taking a couple month break from poetry to dip her toes into acting with Insight Theatre Celbridge, she is so excited to be getting back to performing her poetry. Her poetry often centres around a memory or event that took place in her life. She uses writing poetry as a tool to navigate all of her big feelings towards the world and she can't wait to share it with you. Steve O’TooleIs a street stalking creative, poet, storyteller, &amp; artist. The creative force behind ‘The Write Stuff’. Curating &amp; hosting bespoke gatherings in collaborative poetry, storytelling, &amp; music. Not one to sit on the fence, Steve firmly wears both his heart &amp; mind on his sleeve, delivering forceful versed commentary by the page full. He is currently editing &amp; preparing for the release of his first creative anthology, due Autumn 2026. Originally performing in the mid 90’s as support to Irish writer ‘Pat Ingoldsby’. It was early 2023, when Steve returned after a far too long hiatus. Since then, he has gone on to read &amp; perform at ‘The International Literary Festival’, ‘The Dublin Arts &amp; Human Rights Festival’, ‘The Bram Stoker Festival’, ‘Culture Night’, plus numerous ‘Seanchoiche’, ‘Shorter Stories’ &amp; ‘Craicly’ events nationwide.

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