Cúirt are delighted to welcome three remarkable poets to this year’s festival. Their work explores identity and its possible deconstructions with a sense of playfulness and wit.

Author of two collections, Kumukanda and A Blood Condition, Kayo Chingonyi navigates the in-between spaces of the historical and contemporary, and of life and death. In doing so, he crafts a place for himself in the poetic landscape.

Dane Holt’s debut collection, Father’s Father’s Father, scrutinises contemporary masculinity, community, and the legacy of grief both personal and communal, while maintaining a sense of the humorous and absurd.

Gustav Parker Hibbett published their first collection in the summer of 2024. High Jump as Icarus Story draws from personal experience and myth alike, deconstructing notions of identity and crafting their own mythology while casting a new light on recognisable figures.