Lingo Festival

Fresh from headlining The Workman's Club in typical raucous fashion as part of this year's LINGO Festival, the one and only Sage Francis dropped by NO ENCORE HQ for a lengthy chat with Dave and the oft-referenced, rarely heard (for good…

Words With Teeth is happening in the Workman's Club, Dublin on October 18th as part of the Lingo Festival. Author Sarah Maria Griffin and Humourist Damon Blake will be pitting six Irish writers against each other as they read brand new…

Tittererers! Hello! I can't stay long, it's late and I have the sniffles. I have an actual buttload of things for you this week though so maybe we should just get cracking? Let's do it. I honestly just drifted off in a sniffles related daze…

Lingo is fast approaching. Which means that we're busy, busy, busy at Headstuff HQ, because we have a big bad shiny family event to run. We've been pulling together a poetryhunt like no other. This is a scavenger hunt that will take you on…

Hollie McNish is an unstoppable poetic force. Her videos have gone viral and her words have touched people in every corner of the world. Hailing from the UK, she has performed on stages just about everywhere. Her poetry has been noticed by…

Colm Keegan isn’t the sort of person you’d suspect would be one of Ireland’s leading spoken word and contemporary poets. You would never guess that he’s been shortlisted for multiple Hennessey’s, is the Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown Writer in…

It seems like poetry just keeps happening and this month is no exception. So sit down and peruse the poetrybeat as I highlight a few of the MANY beautiful word things happening this May.  LINGO are looking for you… Yep, it’s a bit…