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Thank you! The Irish Poetry Reading Archive is an amazingly rich and diverse resource showcasing the work of poets from Ireland and the Irish diaspora. It can be accessed via the UCD Special Collections website www.ucd.ie/specialcolle... and on YouTube.

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Hark Ph. Berndnaut Smilde

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A gloriously sunny afternoon at Cork City Library reading poems with fellow Howl poets ❤️‍🔥💛✨☀️ as part of #IrelandReads Day @leggettbohan.bsky.social @mollytwomey.bsky.social #howlwriting #jenniferhorgan

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The @ucdlibrary.bsky.social poetry videos are such an amazing resource. It is so lovely to go online and find such a treasure trove of poetry readings, to be able to see all your favourite poets read their work and discover new ones!

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Shores of Loch Awe

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5pm (IST) Wednesday, March 12th✨ "The Travel Award was established to assist poets in their creative development and specifically to help realise a project requiring travel within or outside Ireland and offers an award of £2,000 to do this" irelandchairofpoetry.org/ireland-chai...

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Huge congratulations to Cúirt International Festival of Literature on launching their 40th Festival Programme!🎉 Poetry Ireland is proud to support The Cúirt Poetry Sessions, a series of events featuring some very exciting voices in poetry! ✏️✨ Check out their full programme: www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/

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We're pleased to present the Abridged 0 - 105: Lilith Submission Call. See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! Poetry and/or Art required! #poetry #submissioncall #poetrymagazine

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Here is Michael Mackmin’s commentary on my poem ‘Ode to a Cornish Hedge’, the last poem in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social current issue 102. You can read the poem in the mag, or in Beast, my next collection, which will be published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social in just 2 months

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Cork and Cork-adjacent folks, I'll be reading new work as writer-in-residence in UCC (west wing 9) on Thursday 27th at 6, featuring a cameo from Seán Ó'Ríordáin.

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#Poetry #opp THE NATURE AND PLACE POETRY COMPETITION 2025 - Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge Helen Mort. Deadline 1st April 2025. #PlaceWriting #naturewriting www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...

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It's Ireland Reads day! Come to Cabra Library at 2.45pm for a cuppa and quick chat followed by an hour of quiet reading. Bring your own book or borrow one @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Adult readers only. No booking required. dublincity.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...

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Redrafting a poem? Find a few tips in last week's launch of my book, seq to The Process of Poetry,, where leading Australian poets share their working methods. Please share. 🙏 Book avail from me in UK/or pub in Oz www.5islandspress.com/post/the-mak... #Poetrysky #redrafting #poets #tips #advice

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Our reading in @booksupstairs.bsky.social is coming up this Sunday (23/2) from 2-3pm. 🤪 Alvy Carragher, Anne Tannam & I will be sharing work from our new #poetry collections, all launched in 2024. Alvy has made a cute promo sketch for it. More info and booking here: booksupstairs.ie/.../poetry-c...

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Amongst the birches

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Unboxing! Always exciting to get the box of books. Meet Menagerie, my new poetry collection, out next month from #arlenhouse. Cover images by Elena Duff.

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I found my #poetry feet among generous & encouraging companions at Lime Square Poets' weekly meets - a featured reader & warm, safe Open Mic - during lockdown online & on the line living. Delighted that they are still going strong. Excited to join on 20/3 👇 www.limesquarepoets.com/event-detail...

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📚Tomorrow is the Ireland Reads day ! 📖 A national celebration of reading Check out all the events happening in cork city libraries ! 📍 www.corkcitylibraries.ie/en/

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So excited to have our @michaeldooley.bsky.social and @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social reading at this year's @cuirtfestival.bsky.social , in association with our friends at @poetryireland.bsky.social

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Another amazing line-up from @cuirtfestival.bsky.social in Galway. They celebrate their 40th edition from 8 to 13 April www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social is one my favourite magazines - poetry and visual in print and digital format. I am delighted to have a poem in the latest issue coupled with some wonderful artwork from David Jacques. www.abridged.zone/david-jacque...

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Are you working on creative non-fiction that explores the climate crisis? Send us your creative non-fiction pitches for our upcoming Climate Issue. Our Winter 2025-26 issue will have a special focus on the climate crisis. Deadline: March 31st, 2025 stingingfly.org/news/submiss...

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Looking forward to these readings! 🩶 Love to see you there⚡️

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Come along to meet @hollowaywriter.bsky.social and get signed copies of The Language of Remembering at… Waterstones Cork 27th Feb Charlie Byrne’s Galway 11th Mar No Alibis Belfast 12th Mar @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin 27th Mar Full details on shop websites. See you there! #booksky

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Tomorrow! The DCU Book Club at 6.30pm at Belvedere House DCU Drumcondra. Author Maggie Armstrong joins as special guest in conversation with DCU’s Writer in Residence 2025, Sarah Gilmartin. Register for free: www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-club-...

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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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Thrilled to be reading at this year's #Cúirt40 festival alongside fellow @doirepress.bsky.social poet Jennifer Horgan. Friday 11th April, 6pm at Charlie Byrne's bookshop. www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/the...

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Published today! 🎉

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Louise Glück. From: Descending Figure (Ecco Press, 1980).

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Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded. Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“Let no love poem ever come to this threshold. There is no place here for the inexact praise of the easy graces and sensuality of the body. There is only time for this merciless inventory” Eavan Boland (what a poem!)

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Interview: writer @robmclennan.bsky.social interviews me today in his 12 or 20 series, about writing process, plans, and so on. robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/02/12-o...

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Well Festival of Arts & Wellbeing, Waterford running a week of activities & events, celebrating ways in which arts inspire us. Kerrie O'Brien curated the poem a day postcards. Here she reads Coracle which will be distributed in University Hospital Waterford today vimeo.com/1056782413?t...

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Delighted to be on The Great Reads Award shortlist with some fab writers! 📚🖤👻✨ #silviamolteni @everywithwords.bsky.social

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So looking forward to reading alongside Jamie O’Halloran and Breda Joyce at The Poetry Lounge in Waterford. Huge thanks to Ger Duffy, poet & event organiser, for the invitation to participate. #InternationalWomensDay #Poetry Hope to see you there.

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Happy to have a poem in the forthcoming anthology Washing Windows V (Arlen House). Many thanks to Alan Hayes, editor and publisher at Arlen. Available to pre-order at Books Upstairs and Alan Hanna’s Bookshop #poetry www.alanhannas.com/washing-wind... booksupstairs.ie/product/wash...

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Join us for the Great MoLI Book Swap! Taking place on 1 and 2 March, the Book Swap is your opportunity to rehome your well-loved books and pick up some new reads. Spend a day exploring our exhibitions and exchanging books with fellow bookworms! moli.ie/events/the-g... 📚

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Delighted to be doing a reading from my recent collection ’Small Victories’ in the Old Market House Arts Centre in Dungarvan on March 1st. So lucky to have the wonderful Lani O Hanlon to moderate. All very welcome. 📕

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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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March 27th💫 Victoria Kennefick in conversation with Seán Hewitt @tlrhub.bsky.social TCD. www.eventbrite.ie/e/an-evening...

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Only one week to go before the publication of the hotly anticipated, The Language of Remembering by @hollowaywriter.bsky.social Get your copy ordered from your local bookshop, Easons, @dubraybooks.bsky.social, @waterstones.bsky.social and signed copies from No Alibis Bookstore #booksky #books

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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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“a little wisp of sleep that clothed my soul up there in the miracle zone of the great firmament reeling to the dream-plough illogically lilting back and forth for no cause.” Seán Ó Ríordáin trans. Ciaran Carson

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Wonderful to receive today and read my copy of @rosannamcglone.bsky.social's The Making of a #Poem. An excellent and utterly fascinating book. Through artfully crafted interviews with 11 award-winning Australian #poets, Rosanna explores how their poetry comes into being #booksky #poetrycommunity

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The Language of Remembering will be in all good bookshops this day next week! Launch next Thursday! Countdown is on 🕺🕺

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Morning followers and fellow writers, enough about me. I'd love to hear about your WIP. What are you writing today? ✍️ ✍️ ✍️ How's it going? Please share below & retweet 🙏 @petitecreature1.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @martinadalton.bsky.social @julianday.bsky.social

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Writers and artists are forever in need of financial support, so we have gathered together a list of current Bursaries and Grants for Writers you may be eligible to apply for. www.writing.ie/resources/bu... #writersky #speirgorm #writersQ

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