His spellbinding command over his audience and his notorious table-sliding antics created a unique live atmosphere that he will be looking to recreate upon his return to the Wexford Street venue on June 25.

The Wexford native and Manhattan transplant has recently recorded a new album Love Can’t Always Be Articulate, and has been playing gigs in churches around the US to promote it.

Author Liam Fay once said “Like his songs, Turner’s live shows are spellbinding: his grip on an audience is so tight he leaves fingerprints.” He was dubbed ''Ireland's greatest living poet'' by this very publication in 1991.

In recent times his focus, while in Dublin, has been in more concert like venues such as the National Concert Hall and the Dublin Unitarian Church on Stephens Green, but the intimate surroundings of Whelan’s will bring his usual audience interaction to a new level.