The 30-odd seats around three sides of the performance area at County Hall, Dun Laoghaire, were filled at lunchtime on Sunday by an enthusiastic audience whose applause for You Who Have Never Arrived brought dancer Becky Reilly back repeatedly to acknowledge it.

When she choreographed The Well for Ella Clarke in the New Music, New Dance Festival at the old Project Arts Centre, Adrienne Browne proved her sensitivity to poetry and her ability to enhance it with movement. Now, a decade later, with added experience, she has done the same thing for Beth Ann Fennelly's poem, spoken by Anne Fitz-Patrick to attractive music by Siobhan Cleary. Unfortunately, the parquet floor and wood-panelled walls of the old Dun Laoghaire Town Hall Reception Room do nothing for acoustics, though they do suit the barefoot dancer. Consequently, for anyone unfamiliar with the poem, many of the words were lost, through no fault of the speaker, making it hard to appreciate all the subtleties of each arabesque or series of turns - but the mood was established nonetheless.

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council deserves congratulations for commissioning this special performance, as a part of the Poetry Now festival.