Spoken Word 2026
2026 has been a busy year with performances at the Slamovision qualifier in Dublin in May, at the Darby Ryan festival in Bansha, Tipperary in August and with more to come.
Delighted to have made it into Poetry Ireland Review (Issue 149), with The Edge. This performance was at a Circle Sessions Event at the International Bar in Dublin's Wicklow Street.
A Question for Michael O' Leary took the Runner-up Prize at the Darby Ryan International Poetry Competition 2026 in Bansha, Co Tipperary in August.
Bhí an-áthas orm an babhta ceannais a bhaint amach sa Cháilitheoir Slamovision Bhaile Átha Cliath ag an ILFD le Dallamullóg.
Spoken Word 2025
In July and November 2025, Aidan performed at a number of open mic events in Dublin.
A Chaplet of Small Blessings was shortlisted for the 2026 Bournemouth Writing Prize and published in the Bournemouth Prize Anthology as Small Litany of Thanks and Praise. I performed it at the 1916 CPAC in Dublin in Nov 2025.
Neuron Count was shortlisted in the Plough Arts Centre Poetry Prize, highly commended in the Morecambe Poetry Festival Competition and won a top six prize in the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025. This performance was at a Circle Sessions event in the International Bar in Dublin's Wicklow Street in July.
The Plant featured in the Slipstream Poets Competition (highly commended) and Ware Poets Competition (commended) and won 3rd prize in the Waterford Poetry Prize Competition 2024 but didn't get its first live outing until November 2025 at a Words by the Sea event at Walters in Dun Laoghaire.
THE CHA☈GE
Updated and re-released in December 2025.
The updated release of THE CHA☈GE includes one complete major and three minor episodes on two levels.
THE CHA☈GE is a non-linear, poetic, riddle-driven mind-game of fifteen episodes in search of executive function. Free to play online or download.
THE CHA☈GE is free to play or download and comes with no ads, tracking or data collection.
Performances 2024
In 2024, Aidan was invited to perform at a number of prizegiving events in Ireland and the UK.
Mutatis Mutandis was highly commended in the Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition. The reading was at Pallas Co. Longford in June 2024.
Tearaway (Blues) was shortlisted at the Redline Book Festival Competition 2024 The prizegiving took place at Castletymon Library in Tallaght, Co. Dublin in Oct 2024.
Charade won 2nd prize at the Redline Book Festival Competition 2024. The prizegiving took place at Castletymon Library in Tallaght, Co. Dublin in Oct 2024.
2023 and earlier
Halfway House was shortlisted for the Liverpool Poetry Prize 2023 The prizegiving took place at the Brain Charity in Liverpool, UK in June 2023.
The Park, a lockdown poem was among the winners of the Poetry Archive Word View Competition 2021 Results were announced at the end of 2021.