Writer in Residence - Kerri Ni Dochertaigh

Writing the Land Collaborative Arts Project 

CELT are delighted to welcome renowned nature writer and ecopoet Kerri Ni Dochertaigh as our Writer in Residence, taking place in partnership with the Woodland League and NatureCulture@LLN with thanks to funding awarded under the Irish Environmental Networks inaugural Andrew St Ledger Memorial Fund . 

Our Writer in Residence programme is part of our Writing the Land collaborative and creative platform with a focus on nature protection and restoration, engaging environmental and forest restoration organisations and local communities in the Eachtgha - Slieve Aughty area. This residency aims to honor, map, reconnect and restore our relations to the Great Forest of Aughty.

Kerri Ni Dochertaigh

Ecopoet and nature writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a mother, writer, holder and grower. She is moved by the way we tend and attend: to ourselves; to one another; to the living world. She has written for The Guardian, BBC, RTE, The Irish Times and others. She mentors and teaches worldwide. Her work currently explores ideas of one-anotherness, interconnectedness and ecologies of care.

Her first book, Thin Places, was published by Canongate in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, and highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021.Cacophony of Bone was published by Canongate in May 2023 and was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2023. 

She lives in the west of Ireland with her family.

For more info on her work please visit - https://linktr.ee/kerrinidochartaigh

Cacophony Of Bone

CELT are very grateful for the opportunity to host this project through the funding awarded under the Irish Environmental Network’s inaugural Andrew St. Ledger Memorial Fund, which was established in recognition of Andrew’s work and dedication to reconnecting and restoring people’s relationship to their native woodlands and to Native Woodland Restoration.

CELT, NatureCulture@LLN and the Woodland League are delighted to be collaborating on this creative Writer in Residence project with Kerri, and to continue to honour Andrew’s vision and work in restoring the relationship between people and their native woodlands, and by recognising the rights of the forest and nature to thrive and flourish and to be restored.