Annette Skade

Annette Skade was born in Manchester and has lived for many years lived on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. Her award winning first collection, Thimblerig, was published by Bradshaw Books in 2013. In 2021 she received a doctorate from Dublin City University for her research on the poetry of Anne Carson. Her poems appear in poetry magazines and anthologies in Ireland, the UK, the US and Australia. Her chapbook Holdfast was published in August 2024 by Channel.

Channel is a literary journal born out of the climate crisis, publishing writing in English and Irish that fosters connection between people and planet. It aims to create space for the emergence of new narratives surrounding nature in the public consciousness, building a community of writers, artists and readers grounded in shared ecological concern.