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Tiny but mighty indie press specialising in poetry books and magazines. Hyena! by Fran Lock was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN Heaney Prize. Grab a copy here https://thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop/
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Doisneau.

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For all you lovelorn out there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lTV...

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Cordite felicitations to one and all!

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Or both? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXF9...

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Incredible images.

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Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

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She spoke up for Palestine. Kudos.

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Insomniacs. Stop wondering why you can't sleep and start questioning why they can.

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Okay, my ardent followers who have been troubled wondering what to get me for Christmas; your troubles are over.

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Do you have a music or book lover in your life? We have the perfect gift for culture vultures who love world class artistic experiences in beautiful settings! Gift vouchers available for our 3 festivals @westcorkmusic.bsky.social Literary Festival & Masters of Tradition westcorkmusic.ie/giftvouchers

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Turner Prize 2024 Jasleen Kaur youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY?...

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Spoofers. Sophistry.

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Tooth, Nail. Fighting while there is breath the cloistered Irish poetry scene. Class, belonging, fitting. Knowing, deep, stubborn, fuck them, fucking that shit, refusing to stop if going on is the tiniest grain rubbing in the soft shoe of their safe smug glug of gorgeous.

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What a line up, Fran Lock, Bobby Parker, Al Hutchins! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/culture-ma...

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@poetrybuspress.bsky.social Welcome, Poetry Bus! I feel like I took this picture forever ago

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So I walked as day was dawning where small birds sang and leaves were falling where we once watched the rowboats landing on the broad majestic Shannon.

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Added a few more, including the wonderful @ninearchespress.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social and @parthianbooks.bsky.social

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Bus Stop in Paris, Photo by Roger Schall, 1930s

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No plans for Monday night? Now you do - get yer skates on and get down to Hammersmith we have Neil Jordan, one of Ireland’s great filmmakers in discussion on his memoir. Tonight, 7.30, tix on door / online: irishlitsoc.org/event/neil-j...

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In case anyone else is feeling the urge to read more Fran Lock... thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop

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Many congratulations to Manchester City on their five in a row.

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Hi Bluesky, we're a radical publishing collective and events curator based in South London. We run an online journal called theHythe. Follow us for poetry, fiction, and essays that prioritise radical, anti-colonial, anti-racist, late modernist voices! #booksky #indiepress #indiebooks

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I am so very pleased to have a poem included in this amazing anthology - I went to the launch just to listen to the other readers and it was all so wondeful. Here is my poem x

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Absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Poetry Community Starter Pack. Thank you all so much. I’m trying to add people as fast as I can, so please be patient if you haven’t yet had a response. So many fab poets, presses & lit mags to explore! #PoetsOnBluesky #Poetry go.bsky.app/HkRFQHo

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My collection The Colour of Extinction is Poetry Book of the Month in the Observer. With a great review. Stuart #poetry @howfashionating.bsky.social

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We are very excited that our publication, Hyena! by Fran Lock is on the PEN Heaney Prize shortlist! Well done to all involved. www.englishpen.org/prizes/pen-h...

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Happy publication to all our wonderful contributors! Best British Short Stories 2024 is available now! 🥳🎉🥂 Buy now: www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

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Interesting artistic project by artist Patrick Murphy and poet Ian McMillan on the changing language around mental health, inspired by interviews talking about Sheffield’s old Middlewood Mental Hospital. For Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind 2024. youtu.be/gFeVXRIrJcM?...

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Thanks Ian McMillan for hosting us on BBC R4 The Verb. I read from & chatted about My Hummingbird Father & Beast, Alan Connor had 188 words for rain! Deryn Rees Jones read #FleurAdcock’s neon line & her own, Isy Suttie sang fireworks & we kind of joined in! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Delighted to have a poem in this fantastic looking issue of @CrannogM

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