New anthology of essays on music from contemporary writers. With Peter Geoghegan and Declan Long. Moderator: Dean Browne.

Peter Geoghegan is an author, journalist and broadcaster based in London. He works as an investigative reporter at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP.) His most recent book is Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics. He began his writing career with a series of little-read, self-published fanzines distributed exclusively in and around Longford town in the mid-1990s.

Declan Long is an art critic and lecturer, based in Dublin. He is the author of Ghost-Haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland (2017).

Dean Browne‘s pamphlet, Kitchens At Night, was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022, a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition. His poems have appeared in Banshee, The London Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Review, Stinging Fly, and elsewhere. He was recipient of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, 2021. His first collection of poems will be published in 2025. He lives in Cork, Ireland.

You Spin Me Round: Essays on Music
(Edited by Adrian Duncan, Niamh Dunphy, Nathan O’Donnell, PVA Books)
You Spin Me Round is an illuminating collection of essays, an essential mixtape that takes elements of music – songs, performances, albums, gigs – as points of departure. Some of the finest writers at work today reflect on what music has meant to them at different moments in their lives.

With contributions by Ciaran Carson, Brian Dillon, Wendy Erskine, Aingeala Flannery, Peter Geoghegan, Colin Graham, M. John Harrison, Tabitha Lasley, Declan Long, Jayne A. Quan, McKenzie Wark, and Sydney Weinberg.