Christian Wethered & Kenan Flannery

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Christian Wethered [pron. wether-red’] is a poet and songwriter based in Dublin. His debut album, ‘Mon Petit Jardin’, featured in Hotpress’ top folk albums of 2021. His songs have been broadcast on RTE1, RTE Culture and TodayFM. He most recently played at Hot Press’ Y&E, The Ruby Sessions, Electric Picnic, Ireland Music Week and First Fortnight. Recent exposure saw him play the MainStage at Beyond the Pale Festival, as well as a series of gigs through Selective Memory, where he supported Hayden Thorpe of Wild Beasts, amongst others. This year the music video for his single ‘La Madeleine’ won ‘Best Music Video’ at the Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival, and is also an ‘Official Selection’ for the Prague Short-film Festival 2023. His poetry and spoken word has featured in RTE Culture, Southword, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales, The Moth and The London Magazine. A selectee for Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, he has earned funding from Arts and Disability Connect and Poetry Ireland. In 2020 his poem ‘M1’ accompanied David Fox’s An Altered Land at the Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin. He has been anthologised in Writing Home, Local Wonders and The Book of Life (all by Dedalus Press). In 2022 he was selected to read for UCD Library Special Collections. In 2024 he came in second place in the Southword Subscribers Poetry Competition. As a music and poetry critic he writes the folk column for The Goo and regularly contributes reviews and features to The Line of Best Fit, Totally Dublin, KLOF Magazine, Poetry Wales, and PN Review.

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