Niall McDevitt

"Jesus at the Wetherspoons"

a night of
socio-political songs and poetry

Tuesday, December, 6th, 2005, 6 pm
Centre for the Study of Democracy
The Westminster Forum
32-38 Wells Street, 5th Floor
London, W1T 3UW.
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Niall McDevitt has worked as an actor/musician in Neil Oram’s play The Warp (The Drome), Ken Campbell’s Pidgin Macbeth (National Theatre) and John Constable’s The Southwark Mysteries (Shakespeare’s Globe).

He has travelled Europe as a folk musician, ending up in Corsica, “the Island of Beauty”.

His poems have been published in The London Magazine, The Wolf, and Poetry Ireland Review.

For radio he has featured on Bespoken Word (BBC Radio 4), was winner of The Verb’s Urban Poetry Contest 2005 (BBC Radio 3) and was John Peel’s pidgin translator on Home Truths.

He is poet-in-residence at the Hammersmith Irish Centre where his guests have included Tom Raworth, Jeremy Reed, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O’ Sullivan, Christopher Twigg, Sean Bonney, Aidan Andrew Dun, Trevor Joyce, Michael Donaghy and James Byrne.

He was one of the organisers of The Palace of Wisdom - a 24-Hour Symposium in Honour of William Blake – and now does The William Blake Walk.

 

Click on the links below to read some of Niall McDevitt's poems

 

To A Lion-Skin Rug

White Ship

The King Is A Cunt For Making Such A Large Percentage Of Her Subjects Feel Inadequate

Two Poems Read or Listen