Performances 2025

In July and November 2025, Aidan performed at a number of open mic events in Dublin.

This performance of A Question (for Michael O' Leary) was at a 1916 Commemoration Performing Arts Club event in the Teacher's Club, Parnell Square, Dublin in November. The piece is made available under a CC BY 4.0.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.

2 mins 54s

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.

3 min 08s

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.

2 mins 27s

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.

2 mins 13s

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.

2 mins 19s

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.

2 min 48s

2024 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.

2 mins 18s
 

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.

1 mins 17s