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It’s worth pointing out that, since September 2015, trans people in Ireland have been able to apply to have their preferred gender legally recognised by the State. And since then, everything has been . . . fine. People just got on with their lives. www.citizensinformation.ie/en/birth-fam...

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Anyway, arguments around neutrality aside, please continue to donate to help the people of Gaza survive this ongoing genocide.

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Really disturbed at the moment to see calls for an end to Irish neutrality circulating on here. Under our current system any individual who wants to can go and enlist in another army & fight if they wish to. And end to neutrality means committing to what - a European army? What would that 1/4

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It's Sunday night, so here is a Villanelle about Villanelle from Killing Eve. It's called Villanelle Villanelle & it's featured in the latest @hogriverpress.bsky.social 🐖

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Breaking: Israel has once again stopped entry to humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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We are open! Send me your poems ❤️

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Lovely to see @jesstraynor.bsky.social's poem 'Midwinter' from her third collection Pit Lullabies read so beautifully by Ayesha Ostler in this @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social film. Pit Lullabies is distributed in the US by @consortiumbooks.bsky.social.

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If I had been in that press gaggle I would’ve grabbed one of those gilded geegaws off the mantelpiece and brained that fucking gowl

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Very excited to have four new poems from New Arcana featured in the fabulous @hogriverpress.bsky.social They're a stunning journal available in hard copy and online, give them a follow and enjoy their wonderful curation 🐖🐖🐖 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

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The crux of this framing is that men will “exploit” trans inclusivity to perv in women’s bathrooms. The problem is: men - like the registered sex offender in this story - already do this, and there’s zero evidence that trans-inclusive policies have suddenly incentivised more of them into action.

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How gorgeous is this? Such a lovely surprise to see Midwinter from Pit Lullabies read so beautifully. Big thanks to Ayesha and Matthew and all at @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social & @radalondon.bsky.social ❄️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Episode Two of The Tolka Podcast features the marvellous Tim MacGabhann, reading his piece 'The Intransitive' from Issue Seven. Tim joins hosts Maddie and Liam to talk about his insatiable reading and writing, Victor Serge, and—yes—the golden age of ape cinema 🦍 open.spotify.com/episode/4YjY...

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. Gaza The dead boy tries to open his eyes. He wants to see the world he is leaving. But there is nothing to see here, nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone. His parents held him while he died but they are both dead, too. Or he held them, no one remembers. .

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Congratulations @gphibbett.bsky.social! 🔥

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So very delighted to see @gphibbett.bsky.social shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in excellent company ✨️

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It is impressive that austerity measures has been successfully rebranded as DOGE.

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The 2025 Ireland finalists for The British Book Awards 2025 Small Press of the Year are: @bansheepress.bsky.social👏 @lilliputpress.bsky.social👏 'Determined, original & inventive publishing... battled increased costs & a mixed economic outlook' Read more: www.writing.ie/news/small-p... #nibbies

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It’s the final countdown for applications to @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social National Mentoring Programme 2025 Last week I finished my own mentoring sessions for my novel & know how vital mentoring is to our development Open to the whole island of Ireland, please help spread the word 😉

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I am not British. And that’s just one of the reasons I was surprised to get a mention in the recent Cambridge History of the British Essay (2024). You can read the essay they mention here for free on @gorsejournal.bsky.social gorse.ie/provocation-...

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Poet in Residence wanted for the National Memorial Arboretum for two years to use the Arboretum's landscape and memorials for a series of original poems to share stories with brand new audiences. Details in link. Please share :) www.thenma.org.uk/about-us/wor...

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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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The new data centre rules are some cop out. They want to protect the grid but will allow new fossil fuel plant to power them instead? Contrary to Climate Action Plan. Data centres are huge energy users not to mention water consumption

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@sean-carlson.bsky.social interviews @erinfornoff.bsky.social and @gphibbett.bsky.social in this interview at a literary fest in County Kerry, Ireland.

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Just a walking down my street checking my messages on my phone and a guy backs out of a forecourt without looking and nearly hits me and another guy passing yells at me cos it's my fault for looking at my phone kinda morning 🫠

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Read this thread 👇

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I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

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By the amazing @lisasterle.bsky.social who designed me a special new tarot card for the cover of my forthcoming collection New Arcana from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

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Shared a poem about good love over at @irishtimes.com for the day that's in it 💘 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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"Ransacked" -- Selma Dabbagh in the LRB: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

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Just 157 more signatures from Ireland to reach the threshold here!

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The perfect book for the week that's in it 💛💛💛

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My book @serenbooks.bsky.social is one of the chosen books for Valentine’s Day 2025 from The Poetry Society.

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