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Collection from Arlen House: Watching for the Hawk, finalist in the Farmgate Cafe National Poetry Award '24. Arts Council Lit. Bursary. Forward Prize s/list Best Poem Written '23.
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There are a few spaces left to include your submissions for Southword as we are now reaching full capacity. If you would like to be included, please submit your entry today if possible, otherwise you may lose the opportunity to be included. Thanks to all who have sent in their submissions already.

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Lilith is a question mark that haunts our ideals – She is abjection, rage, doubleness, shadow, the notion of destruction at the root of creation, and a fierce protest against forgetting. Abridged 0 - 105: Lilith. Submission Call. Tomorrow.

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Simply terrific news, especially for @bansheepress.bsky.social

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Join us @ Cork City Library on the 22 of Feb at 3:30 pm. to celebrate the joy of words & hear some fine writers. Presented by HOWL New Irish Writing. Readers include Patrick Cotter, Liz Quirk, @laurenlawler.bsky.social, @mollytwomey.bsky.social Louis Mulcahy. Thanks @leggettbohan.bsky.social.

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The level of violence and the intense hatred women have for their bodies depicted in the film The Substance is deeply disturbing. 😢 Powerful reminder of the societal pressures and the lengths some might go to meet those unrealistic standards. A must-watch for those who can handle its brutality.

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Announcing Writing from Within, a 1-day #workshop in #haiku #poetry & #mindfuless, led by me on Sat 22/3 in #Glendalough in County #Wicklow. Includes a walk & veggie lunch 🚶🏻‍♂️ www.glendaloughsanctuary.ie/event-details/writing-from-within-workshop-in-haiku-mindfulness-led-by-maeve-osullivan-22nd-march

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Can’t wait to help launch D’or Seifer’s debut collection “On Being Un/Able to Walk Through Walls” this Sunday, 3pm, at the People’s Museum in Limerick 💚 www.limerickpost.ie/2025/02/06/r...

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If you are around Waterford next weekend come along and listen to @milenawilliamson.bsky.social , Emma McKervey and me reading from our new collections. With thanks to Ger Duffy.

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We hope you can join us for the launch of Claire-Lise Kieffer's phenomenal debut, TENTERHOOKS, in Charlie Byrne's Bookshop on Friday 21 February. All are welcome 🥳

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Today be like:

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This promises to be a great afternoon, looking forward to it very much.

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My LGBTQ+ poetry journal, Impossible Archetype, is open now until 1st March for submissions to our 17th Issue. Full guidelines here: impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/submit/ Please repost!

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Carrigaline Library writers’ group are looking for new members. The group meet the third Wednesday of the month. If you are interested, please contact the library on 021-4371888 or email mailto:[email protected]

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✨ Soft launch ✨ I potentially maybe perhaps likely if all goes well have a book coming out this year 🤌

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

First SpeakEasy Open Mic of 2025 has Eleanor Hooker as special guest. Bring along something to read and there’ll be some great music as well. @eleanorhooker.bsky.social

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I'm developing a creative anthology related to my research. Please share this Call for Submissions widely with anyone you think might be interested! Something mythic this way comes ... quareeire.wordpress.com

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Speakeasy #Waterford #Poetry #Music

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My copy of @pshares.bsky.social has made it across the Atlantic to Dublin! So delighted to have this poem from my next collection New Arcana (coming from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social in Sept) featured in the winter issue. Thanks to editor John Skoyles for his appreciation of my word play 🐍❄️🐍

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

IMHO, nuclear weapons feel outdated in a world where social media giants like Musk and Zuckerberg amplify Trump-style populism. The real battleground now is control over the digital narrative. 🕊️📲

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Submissions for SWERVE 4 open on 1 March! See website for guidelines: www.swervemagazine.org

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Before ...

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Such a gorgeous cover, as usual. Honoured to have had work in past anthologies, and can't wait to delve into this one.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

News & cover reveal!! Arlen House ‒ Celebrating 50 Years, forthcoming March 2025: My new poetry collection, *Menagerie*. "as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings" ‒ Paula Meehan Cover images #elenaduffart 💚

submitted 48 days ago • 18 comments

In the garden this morning. Last day of the fairy lights, and the snow arrives ✨️

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Excited to be amongst all of these wonderful poets - Waterford, 25 January 25.

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I edit an LGBTQ+ poetry journal called IMPOSSIBLE ARCHETYPE. Submissions for our 17th issue are OPEN NOW and close on 1st March 2025. Full guidelines here: impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/submit/

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

We are still OPEN for poetry submissions on the theme BODY until 7th feb. poems to - [email protected] The submissions so far are bloody brilliant😜

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

What a joy to see the first snowdrop buds in the garden today.

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In the garden today.

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Mícheál McCann

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Looking forward to this very much. My first time reading in Carrick-on-Suir. Thanks to Margaret O Brien for organising it.

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‘I spent a year inside the word GOD like a budget hotel room’ - Amelia Loulli, from her excellent collection ‘Slip’

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⏰Submission Deadline Alert⏰ There's one week left to apply to the 2025 poetry workshop. This brand new workshop will help poets developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (Jan-May 2025). Deadline: 5pm Monday 9th December. More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...

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This week from the archive: read three poems by Jane King, taken from PN Review 259, our May - June 2021 issue. Don’t forget to subscribe to our Substack for free poems in your inbox weekly: open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

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“A new writing award for authors aged 60+ has launched, and is backed by My Name is Leon (Penguin) author @kitdewaal.bsky.social and agency AM Health.” via The Bookseller Magazine #NewWritingAward www.thebookseller.com/news/new-wri...

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Hello new followers, I am a poet and this is my new collection coming September 2025 from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 94 days ago • 12 comments

Hullo. An introduction: I'm Mark, a poet from Dublin. My first full-length collection, Nightlight (Salmon Poetry) was out last year. I've a bunch of pamphlets including recent ones w/ @voidspacezine.bsky.social + @raymondluczak.com's Chaps Poetry. Also a librarian, very gay and music obsessed.

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments