Riversdale: Ireland — 10 Sonic Poems, Vol. 1 is the first collection of Irish Sonic Poetry by Alistair Sherwood — ten original poems brought together through voice, melody, folk instrumentation and atmospheric sound.

Rooted in Irish storytelling, Celtic folk and contemporary poetry, Riversdale moves through childhood memory, landscape, nature, the animal world and the psychological surrealism of remembered experience. Humour and melancholy coexist with the strange logic of memory, where an apparently ordinary encounter can become philosophical, absurd or unexpectedly profound.

Neither a conventional folk album nor spoken-word poetry, Riversdale explores the territory between sung poetry, narrative folk music and literary storytelling. Its world is recognisably Irish, yet deliberately unstable: rivers remember, animals observe, childhood objects acquire new meanings, and the boundary between lived experience and imagination is allowed to shift.

Riversdale is an invitation to step briefly outside the literal world and enter another — one shaped by memory, nature, humour and the peculiar ways in which we reconstruct the past.