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30th Oct 2025

Age Range
16-18 and/or 18+

Venue
Millcourt Mews

Address
Donegal Town
Donegal
F94Y5YV

Creative Comforts Festival: An Evening of Music & Poetry with Marian Bradfield & Rosamund Taylor

Join musician Marian Bradfield and poet Rosamund Taylor for a beautiful evening of music and verse. Marian will perform brand new original music accompanied by poetry readings from acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor, a blend of talents sure to soothe the soul. 

Marian Bradfield - singer/songwriter and performer - has been a stalwart of the Irish music scene for over 30 years. Based in Donegal, she has to date, penned four studio albums and 1 live album. She is – together with all the other wonder female performers, one of the original Celtic Women and has appeared on several compilations to date including Celtic Woman 1 & 2 to name but a few. 

Rosamund Taylor’s first collection In Her Jaws, was published by Banshee Press in May 2022, and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.

In 2025, she is publishing Reflections Glimmer: Poems Exploring Ekphrasis (Tapsalteerie Press) and Filly, a novel-in-verse (Banshee Press).

A selection of her poetry won the Mairtín Crawford Award at the Belfast Book Festival in 2017. Her poem The Proof won the London Magazine Poetry Competition in 2020; in 2023, her poem Why Whistlejacket? won the Telegraph Poetry Competition, and in 2025 her poem Beryl won the Rialto Nature and Place poetry competition. Her work has been broadcast on RTE radio’s The Poetry Programme and on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please.

She has published over fifty poems in Ireland, Canada, the US and the UK. Recently,

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