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eoinsheg.bsky.social
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.” Szymborska. It's where I start each day. My little role call - Cúirt New Writing Prize 2018. PI Intros 2020. Listowel Poetry Award MS 2021. Kavanagh Highly Commended 2022.
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This is every poet trying to write in these crazy times!!

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It's hard to sum-up the joy and sense of hope that Robin Wall Kimmer's book, 'The Serviceberry' gives - you'd have to read it yourself! But just to say, I think that it carries in its pages that special aura of the gift economy - one imbued with relationship, reciprocity, placeness, and love.

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Welcome to Rewild! If you have land in Ireland and you want to rewild it but are not sure how, this is the site for you! www.rewildyourland.ie

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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen We will reach 2C by 2045 Collapse of critical ocean current AMOC as early as 20 years I would say it will be even sooner Humanity has destroyed their own future www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements have been condensed into a single vital number. theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...

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The photographs of Los Angeles on fire speak variously of environmental collapse, policy failure, ineluctable helplessness—but they won’t be lasting images. “Our ways of seeing are not yet adequate to our predicament,” Teju Cole writes.

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The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌏

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Terrific programme for Ballincollig Winter Music Festival. I've written a new poem for this event on theme of 'The Gift' - who/what inspires us as artists. Also sean-nos singer Stephanie Keane, harpist Alisa Vasilisa & poet @eoinsheg.bsky.social . Free event but book below - whitehorse.ie/bwmf5/

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"What our medical teams have witnessed on the ground … is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza” www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-...

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Love this...it's so simple really: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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For #smallpoemsunday these eight lines by Anaïs Nin! 🖤 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project." Read that again: **116** times. Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding?? www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

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'If our overheating planet is a result of human greed, then it must be a special kind of greed, a kind that emerged puzzlingly late in the long history of our species[..] but we can give it a better, more specific name: capitalism.' From the brilliant Sally Rooney: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Brilliant from Carole Cadwalladr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Now I must get off my own device! www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Flowering wood sorrel growing amidst the mosses on rock in an Irish Atlantic rainforest. 🌎

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Such an incredible and inspiring story...I'm in awe at how he prevailed, with hope and faith, despite so much brutality and cruelty. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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G for Genocide In the last 80 days, Israel has used a level of munitions equal to more than two nuclear bombs on Gaza. Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined[..]those in Gaza are left with two choices: Leave, or die by bombardment, disease or starvation. #Gaza_Genocide from @irishExaminer

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'Rebecca Solnit, has located hope in the “spaciousness of uncertainty” which invites and demands that we act in the here and now with generosity and optimism...hope [as] a vital ethical disposition.' Looking at the year ahead, it's a message we need. Wishing you all hope and love this Christmas.

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'Solstice' by Michael Longley

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"COP28 climate deal a 'stab in the back', says Greta Thunberg." And she's 100% right. www.rte.ie/news/2023/12...

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