Congratulations to Sarah Long on the release of her new spoken word album, I Want To Talk About Ireland, produced by Laurie Shaw, and the associated publication I’m never going to be able to sleep out here, published by Bloomers, 2026.

The work centres on the tradition of the aisling–Aisling is the Irish term for ‘dream’ or ‘vision’. It is also the name of a poetic genre where the Irish nation appears to the poet as a woman, often employed to reflect on the political and social concerns of any given times. Invoking the language of dreams, Sarah identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these references with personal stories and motifs. She views this rearranging and reinterpreting of histories and visualities as an act of feminist fictioning, highlighting moments and ideas that haunt, shape and subjugate our collective consciousness, specifically our notions of the Irish nation.

Available at https://sarahlongartist.myshopify.com/