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Celebrate our Cork launch at Waterstones on Tuesday the 27th of May at 6:30pm. We'd love to see you there! 🩶 Introductions by the effervescent @Leeanne_Quinn. Readings by Cal O'Reilly, Mai Ishikawa, and Róisín Leggett Bohan 🩶

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Fantastic to see flash fiction by Banshee contributors @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social and @atrodd.bsky.social included in Best Small Fictions 2025! @altcurrent.bsky.social Congrats to Chloe and Adam and to our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social 💫 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

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RIP, Norm!

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This poem is just stunning. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

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Waterford City - Next SpeakEasy Open Mic with some very special guests this Friday. Come along and read, or to listen.

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So many wonderful literary journals coming out of Cork at the moment. Check out The Four Face Liar website for details on their competition.

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Submissions for our Short Story Award competition open soon! First prize is €1000, second prize €500, as well as a €300 third prize. Guest judge @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @jmcm.bsky.social and I cannot wait to read your words. Send us your best! Rules below: open.substack.com/pub/authorjm...

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The deadline for the Creative Writing Award to celebrate the literary life of the late Molly Keane is this Monday 19th, May at 12 noon 🤍💙🤍💙. It's one of the few awards with no entry fee for an unpublished short story 🥳🫶. waterford.submit.com/show/257?utm... @waterfordcouncil.bsky.social

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Galway!! Book launch, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from Arlen House. All welcome!

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May 23, SpeakEasy Open MIc, Waterford with guest poet Mícheál McCann. Mícheál is from Derry City. His poems have been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review and Banshee.He holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s. Devotion is his first collection, from Gallery Press.

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Huge congratulations to Victoria Kennefick on being awarded the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award and also to all the other shortlisted poets - www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... #corkinternationalpoetryfest #poetryaward #farmgatecork

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Tomorrow in Waterford

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Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! 💛🧡 Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.' @gphibbett.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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No prize for guessing what Friedrich Merz, Anthony Albanese, Mark Carney and pope Leo all have in common!

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Arlen House & dlr Libraries warmly invite you to group readings from the bestselling anthology Washing Windows V: Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry, 1975-2015 Dundrum Library, Wed 7 May, 6pm dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire (level 3), Sat 10 May, 2pm ALL WELCOME @nualaoconnor.bsky.social

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Unreal news to see Claudia Rankine coming to @corkmidsummer.bsky.social #PoetryDayIRL www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/cla... @glucksman.bsky.social 😍🙏

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May 1st Poetry Day – and we are looking forward to the Cork International Poetry Festival which starts on 13th May. With only a few spaces left on our workshops and information on tickets please click the link: www.corkpoetryfest.net

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It's Poetry Day Ireland and you can read all issues of Abridged free at www.abridged.zone! Plus we have a submission call open too... ##poetry #poetrymagazine

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Chatting to friends tonight about things that are no longer around... Vesta curry, woodchip wallpaper, mink coats, and Tippex... Then I remembered this poem by Leontia Flynn

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Poetry Day Event, Waterford

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In the garden today: fronds straining towards the sun, and clematis starting to climb.

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Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House Forthcoming book announcement Noelle Lynskey Featherweight her much anticipated debut poetry collection Launching on Friday 2 May at Strokestown International Poetry Festival, 7pm BUY charliebyrne.ie/product/feat... @charliebyrne.bsky.social

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Launches for #Menagerie, my new poetry collection! Dublin: 9th May @booksupstairs.bsky.social 6.30pm Belfast 3rd June, Irish Secretariat, time tbc Joint launch and wine reception for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from #ArlenHouse

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I will be on Poetry People on @rteradio1.bsky.social with poet Rachael Hegarty, on Sun 27th April, just after 7pm. Reading & discussing a few poems from my new collection Menagerie. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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A date for the diary:-

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We're pleased to present our Umbra Sumus Submission Call. Poetry and/or Art Required! See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! #poetry #poetrymagazine @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

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Delighted for the opportunity to see my poem “Dear Small Girl” in Fitzgeralds Park in the heart of Cork City thanks to Cork World Book Festival, Cork City Libraries, and Poetry in the Park. I’ve been lucky to have three poems over the years in parks, and they all happen to be about my daughter!

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Infant fronds unfurling.

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Celebrating 50 Years of Arlen House Forthcoming Washing Windows V First launch on Saturday 3 May at 14.15 Strokestown International Poetry Festival The most comprehensive anthology of contemporary Irish women poets ever published with over 300 contributors BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/wash...

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Gardening at my place be like.

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Thank you to Mary O'Donnell, Enda Wyley & Peter Sirr for their generous praise of the work of Mai Ishikawa, Emer Lyons, Róisín Leggett Bohan & Cal O'Reilly in Beginnings Over and Over. Please take a listen to the Books For Breakfast podcast so you can hear just how brilliant these poets are 🌱

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🧈 Bealtaine & Butter 🧈 This #PoetryDay, May 1st, join us at 10AM for a free tour @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social! 💛 After, we’ll gather at Maureen’s for tea/coffee & a writing session 🌻 ✍️ DM / email [email protected] to register! Thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social's Bright Ideas Bursary 💛

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GENTLE REMINDER: The deadline is today at 5pm. Send in your applications for entry-level fiction and creative non-fiction workshops at the 2025 Summer School

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An honour to join this wall of Irish poets who have inspired my work since I was at school. Hello from University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, where the O'Shaughnessy proceedings are beginning!

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Excited to announce that I've been shortlisted for the Public Discourse Award at the @europeanpressprize.bsky.social for my article Memory Machines, originally commissioned by @thedialmag.bsky.social Honoured to be in such great company on the shortlist www.europeanpressprize.com/shortlists/y...

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Privilege does not know consequence. - me

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Can anyone explain why I see followers' posts mostly in 'Discover'? Am I the only one to experience this? It's as though my timeline is dead, and then I go to 'Discover' and everyone's in there.

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Troubling as the tariffs are, this purge is even more so. news.artnet.com/art-world/di...

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We're very excited to publish new work from @bebeashley.bsky.social and @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social later this year! 📚 bansheepress.org/read/announc...

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