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Poet. Book: Nightlight (@salmonpoetry 2023). New: I Was a Teenage Exorcist (Chaps, 2024). Next: Masters (@TheEmmaPress, 2025), Real Estate (Salmon, 2026) 🏳️‍🌈 https://linktr.ee/markwardpoet
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Come celebrate the release of Zara Meadows’ debut pamphlet “The End of Art” at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast. Zara will be reading poems from the book, along with support from Cal O’Reilly, Dawn Watson, and Mícheál McCann. Grab a ticket via the link in our bio!

Randomly screaming the WOAH in Xiu Xiu's I Love the Valley (Oh) in my office. Just because.

Droning hurdy-gurdy type of day

For all those in the West of Ireland, join us in Galway at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop to celebrate the publication of The Language of Remembering by @hollowaywriter.bsky.social Tues 11th Mar - 6pm Introduced by Elaine Feeney No tickets required so get that date in you diary. #Booksky

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!

Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show is one of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences ever. Riveting but UNCOMFORTABLE.

Thrilled to be in this new anthology!

👋 Hello Bluesky! We look forward to connecting with poets and people of all kinds on this app. You can learn more about who we are on our website: www.poetryireland.ie

Painting licence secured for my @theemmapress.bsky.social pamphlet, Masters!

My LGBTQ+ poetry journal, Impossible Archetype, is open for submissions from LGBTQ+ poets until 1st March. Full guidelines here: impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/submit/ Please repost!

Wow - we're happy to be a recommended read of The Arts Council #ReadwithAC over on Facebook ❤️📕❤️ We're already thinking about the 2026 handbook—if there's something you'd like featured that's not there already, let us know. Shares very welcome ☀️ @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Just emailed a licensing company to see if I can use a painting for the cover of my forthcoming @theemmapress.bsky.social pamphlet, Masters!

Naychur

Make it gayer. You can't go wrong

Ex-Cowboy/Chocky/Christmas Steps by @mogwai.scot is one of the finest half-hour's of music.

First poem acceptance of the year!

Tired. Sore. Bad Dreams. Cold.

This has been coming a long time. Absolutely BUZZED to show you the cover of my next book, A Brief Inhalation, to be published by @brokensleep on March 31st. This collection of essays means so much to me. Can’t wait for ye to read it. Pre-order will open in February.

PREORDER (28.02.2025): In Visiting Hours, Saif Sidari offers a profound exploration of identity, memory, and belonging, tracing the intricate intersections of queerness, masculinity, and displacement. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

"No, I'll just have a coke, the vibe here is weird"

it's that time

Christmas present from a friend.

Are you givin' in 2000 Man? Are you givin' in 2000 Man? Are you givin' in 2000 Man? Are you givin' in 2000 Man? Are you givin' in 2000 Man? Are you givin' in 2000 Man?

No, I never go home, don't sleep, don't eat, just do it on repeat.

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

rhythm is a dancer but also the rhythm is gonna get you

Being gay is specifying that you strictly like guys older (or younger)than yourself but not specifying your own age.

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/

My father passed away in September 2023. At the start of this year, a long poem began unfurling from me. I think it might be my favourite thing I've ever written and this is the second (of four) sections. I'm so grateful to @jesstraynor.bsky.social and Poetry Ireland for publishing it.

big week for nodding and saying "mhm"

When a magazine publishes a few poems of mine in an issue, I tend to just share one and sometimes poems get missed, so over the last few days of the year, I'm going to share some of these (somewhat) unseen poems. This poem is from the wonderful & Change

When a magazine publishes a few poems of mine in an issue, I tend to just share one and sometimes poems get missed, so over the last few days of the year, I'm going to share some of these (somewhat) unseen poems. This poem is from Shearsman 39/40.