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Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Jun 26

What happens when a language is declared a sin? When the hand itself is seen as an 'enemy'?
This is the haunting reality at the core of Annemarie Ní Churreáin’s poem, "The Language Ban"

#TheLanguageBan #IrishPoetry #irishfolklore #IrishSignLanguage #PoetryAnalysis #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · Jun 26

Can we take a rest?

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · May 21

After hearing the banshee in an abandoned Celtic Tiger petrol station I explore the historical ties between the banshee &the lost singing tradition of Keening at funerals.How Victorian Muscular Christianity vilified the expression of emotion in colonised populations. open.spotify.com/episode/3CjX...

I thought I heard the Banshee but it was a Fox with a cough

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Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · May 19

In @mosababutoha.bsky.social 's poem door on the road, shows a world where every single object has become a threat to the Palestinian people.

#mosababutoha #freepalesti̇ne #palestinewillbefree #palestine #palestinian #palestinianpoetry

Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Apr 11

Latest episode is live and is focused on Olga Dermott Bonds's gorgeously haunting work of ekprhasis. It's a poem that peels back the layers of paint and varnish to reveal the story behind Ophelia by John Everett Millais
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#poetry #poet #poetryreading #poetrtanalysis

Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Apr 2

Irish poet Maurice Riordan on how poetry has an almost unique ability to control time.

#poetry #timetravel #poetrycommunity #poetryquotes #poetryreview

Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Apr 2

Irish poet Maurice Riordan on how poetry has an almost unique ability to control time.

#poetry #timetravel #poetrycommunity #poetryquotes #poetryreview

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · Apr 2

There's a @winterpapers.bsky.social archive online with work by Claire Kilroy, Hugh O'Connor, Jess Traynor, June Caldwell, Sara Baume, Brian Leyden, Peter Murphy, Martin Dyar, Jess Raymon, me, and an interview with Cathal Coughlan by Siobhán Kane. winterpapers.com/selected-work

Winter Papers Selected Work

Winter Papers

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · Mar 28

I'm glad there's something out there for people who love Studio Ghibli films, but also hate art, imagination and goodness.

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · Mar 26

New podcast. This about how far right talking points distract us from eliminating the state violence of neoliberal capitalism open.spotify.com/episode/2wmH...

Against Bigotry and Hatred

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · Mar 31

Last day to send me your poems for issue 20!

Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · Mar 1

Submissions are now open until 31st March for our speculative fiction issue edited by @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 💫

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Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Mar 31

More for my interview with poet Maurice Riordan. Maurice spoke about the way in which the world has changed drastically in his time on the planet.

#poetrycommunity #poetrycommunity #irishliterature #irishpoetry #PoetryPodcast #poetryquotes #PoetsToRead

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Mar 31

The only light in Gaza right now is from Israeli bombs.

Israel has cut off electricity and water to 2.1 million Palestinians — resuming its genocidal war and pushing Gaza toward total humanitarian collapse.

The only visible light in Gaza is coming from Israeli bombardment

Israel resumed its genocidal war on Gaza by cutting off water and electricity to 2.1 million Palestinians, threatening a humanitarian disaster.

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Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Mar 28

The poet Maurice Riordan reads his poem Rural Electrification 1956.

You can hear the rest of my interview with Maurice now, where he takes a walk through his own career spanning nearly four decades.

#poetryquotes #poetrycommunity #mauriceriordan #irishliterature #irishpoetry

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · Mar 27

“Monolingualism was an invention of the nation state, only a few centuries ago, but the word has always described an aspiration more than a reality, despite temporarily effective and often cruel attempts to suppress non-official languages and dialects.”

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · Mar 28

I'm going to be reading at this on Saturday, come by and show your solidarity with the Palestinian people 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · Mar 27

Join us Saturday 2pm, top of Grafton Street, to commemorate Palestinian Land Day with poetry and music. Land Day marks the date in 1976 when Palestinian citizens of Israel were gunned down while protesting for their rights and is the anniversary of the Great March of Return in Gaza. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Mar 27

The latest episode, an interview with Irish poet Maurice Riordan, is up now

In the interview, spoke about many of the forces that shaped his work; from stopping time to the eerie quality of Irish folklore.

He was a fabulous guest.

#irishpoetry #poertryinterview #poetryquotes #irishliterature

Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Mar 21

For #worldpoetryday, which poets/ collections should I be reading?

Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Mar 21

It’s World Poetry Day, so I pulled together a few poems I’ve been sitting with lately. Some are old favourites, some are newer discoveries — all of them made me pause.

#WorldPoetryDay #LucilleClifton #MaryKarr #WarsanShire #CKWilliams #RashaAbdulhadi #PoetryThatStays #PoetsToRead

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Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social · Mar 21

Another wee poem from me, just pubbed in South Oregon U’s Main Squeeze Mag

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Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social · Mar 19

Very enjoyable listening on St. Patrick's Day - Louis de Paor meeting contemporary poets writing in Irish. If you're interested in languages & their survival... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

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Poetry Extra - No Egos No Divas: New Poets in Irish - BBC Sounds

Daljit Nagra selects a highlight from the BBC's poetry archive to mark St Patrick's Day.

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Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Mar 20

A.K. Ramanujan (1929–1993) was a poet, translator, and scholar who bridged languages and cultures. Writing in English and Kannada, he explored identity, folklore, and the way we think. #Poetry #AKRamanujan

A. K. RAMANUJAN Self-Portrait

I resemble everyone
but myself, and sometimes see
in shop-windows,
despite the well-known laws
of optics, the portrait of a stranger, date unknown,
often signed in a corner
by my father.

Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Mar 17

Nail on the head from @patrickfreyne.bsky.social

Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · Mar 17

Love this from Patrick Freyne:

'Ireland’s progressivism was never a corporate or political pose [...]. It was not a shallow thing. It had very little to do with PR calculations or social media pile-ons or contemporary trends. It was a deeply felt response to our history.'

Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · Mar 15

I wrote about Irishness, sort of

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Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Jan 2

The very first episode of 2025 features the poetry of Louise Gluck. It looks at her poem snowdrops, an elegant study of the tenacity required to begin again, and how sometimes continuation is the best rebirth.

#PoetryPodcast #louiseglück #snowdrop #americanpoet
#poetryquotes #poetrycommunity

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Words That Burn Podcast @wordsthatburn.bsky.social · Nov 23

One day I'll leave No Alibis in Belfast without buying something, but it wasn't today.
This wee book by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social got a glowing review at the counter

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