Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS
@eleanorhooker.bsky.social
Poet & Writer | PhD non-naturalistic narratives of trauma | RNLI Helm & Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett & Markievicz Awards | Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
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Ireland Professor of #Poetry Vona Groarke will deliver her first public lecture at @tcddublin on 26 February - details below. It’s a free event. Vona is a fine poet. Her talk is sure to be interesting.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...
Vona Groarke, 'A Lonely Began: The Poem Alone and the Poem in Company'
Vona Groarke will deliver her first public lecture as Ireland Professor of Poetry in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building,Trinity College
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February 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Ireland Professor of #Poetry Vona Groarke will deliver her first public lecture at @tcddublin on 26 February - details below. It’s a free event. Vona is a fine poet. Her talk is sure to be interesting.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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THE THREE SISTERS: The Brontës, as they have never been seen before.
An article by Peter Ackroyd
@NewYorker, September 11, 1995 #Brontës
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
An article by Peter Ackroyd
@NewYorker, September 11, 1995 #Brontës
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
The Irresistible, and False, Myth of the Brontë Sisters
Charlotte, Anne, and Emily were neither mad nor bad nor particularly dangerous to know.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:53 PM
THE THREE SISTERS: The Brontës, as they have never been seen before.
An article by Peter Ackroyd
@NewYorker, September 11, 1995 #Brontës
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
An article by Peter Ackroyd
@NewYorker, September 11, 1995 #Brontës
www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Lough Derg last evening.
February 8, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Lough Derg last evening.
Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America: Considering the role of blackness and black bodies in the American literary canon.
via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
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via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
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Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America
The novels of Ernest Hemingway, as well as most fiction of the twenties, thirties, and forties, are no longer obliged to do the technically strenuous work of establishing racial difference that we …
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February 7, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America: Considering the role of blackness and black bodies in the American literary canon.
via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
lithub.com/toni-morriso...
via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
lithub.com/toni-morriso...
Current read, highly recommended by Carlo Gèbler.
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills, published by Allen Lane, an imprint of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills, published by Allen Lane, an imprint of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Current read, highly recommended by Carlo Gèbler.
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills, published by Allen Lane, an imprint of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills, published by Allen Lane, an imprint of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS
NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you.
Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!
But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
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Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!
But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
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February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you.
Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!
But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
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Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!
But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
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Join us for an evening of conversation and music with Neil Hegarty and Iarla Ó Lionáird to celebrate the publication of Nicholas Allen’s Late Heaney.
📅 Saturday 28th February
⏰ 7.30pm
🎟️£15
Secure your tickets here > tinyurl.com/4k4e7avx
@neilhegarty.bsky.social @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
📅 Saturday 28th February
⏰ 7.30pm
🎟️£15
Secure your tickets here > tinyurl.com/4k4e7avx
@neilhegarty.bsky.social @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Join us for an evening of conversation and music with Neil Hegarty and Iarla Ó Lionáird to celebrate the publication of Nicholas Allen’s Late Heaney.
📅 Saturday 28th February
⏰ 7.30pm
🎟️£15
Secure your tickets here > tinyurl.com/4k4e7avx
@neilhegarty.bsky.social @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
📅 Saturday 28th February
⏰ 7.30pm
🎟️£15
Secure your tickets here > tinyurl.com/4k4e7avx
@neilhegarty.bsky.social @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
Totally love how @realgdt.bsky.social gets a child’s fear/awe of the monsters in the shadows - listen to Guillermo del Toro talk so eloquently on his art and craft with @johnwilson14.bsky.social @thisculturallife.bsky.social
#ThisCulturalLife
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#ThisCulturalLife
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BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life, Guillermo del Toro
Oscar-winning Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro reveals his cultural influences.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Totally love how @realgdt.bsky.social gets a child’s fear/awe of the monsters in the shadows - listen to Guillermo del Toro talk so eloquently on his art and craft with @johnwilson14.bsky.social @thisculturallife.bsky.social
#ThisCulturalLife
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#ThisCulturalLife
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Thoroughly enjoying Anne Enright’s book ‘Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World’ @thewrengirl.bsky.social #Essays
January 29, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Thoroughly enjoying Anne Enright’s book ‘Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World’ @thewrengirl.bsky.social #Essays
[email protected] is producing #PlaguePoems by 7 poets at #TheSalvagePress. Am in fab company w/ Elaine Feeney, Supriya Dhaliwal, John FitzGerald, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Gerard Smyth & Jessica Traynor
Thanks also to Ellen Martin-Friel & Elize de Beer
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Thanks also to Ellen Martin-Friel & Elize de Beer
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The Salvage Press
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January 29, 2026 at 12:09 PM
[email protected] is producing #PlaguePoems by 7 poets at #TheSalvagePress. Am in fab company w/ Elaine Feeney, Supriya Dhaliwal, John FitzGerald, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Gerard Smyth & Jessica Traynor
Thanks also to Ellen Martin-Friel & Elize de Beer
www.thesalvagepress.com/on-press/ann...
Thanks also to Ellen Martin-Friel & Elize de Beer
www.thesalvagepress.com/on-press/ann...
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Wudja look at this!!
Very proud to be published by The Lilliput Press, and am in love with my book's beautiful cover ❤️🔥
Very proud to be published by The Lilliput Press, and am in love with my book's beautiful cover ❤️🔥
FOUR NIGHT SEAS by Niamh Mac Cabe 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊
We are so excited to be publishing the debut collection from writer and artist @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social!
Mac Cabe's stories take the ordinary - people, animals, trees - and casts them in a way that is beguiling fresh.
We are so excited to be publishing the debut collection from writer and artist @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social!
Mac Cabe's stories take the ordinary - people, animals, trees - and casts them in a way that is beguiling fresh.
January 28, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Wudja look at this!!
Very proud to be published by The Lilliput Press, and am in love with my book's beautiful cover ❤️🔥
Very proud to be published by The Lilliput Press, and am in love with my book's beautiful cover ❤️🔥
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As part of National Grief Awareness Week, I've partnered with the Irish Hospice Foundation to share some writings on the subject.
This piece was an attempt to trace the odd, circuitous routes that grief takes over decades.
#NGAW2026 #IrishHospiceFoundation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
This piece was an attempt to trace the odd, circuitous routes that grief takes over decades.
#NGAW2026 #IrishHospiceFoundation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
It’s the anniversary of my mum’s death – and I’m thinking about space rocks and shell suits
There’ll be more laughs than tears today… as long as you discount tantrums from the three-year-old
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:37 AM
As part of National Grief Awareness Week, I've partnered with the Irish Hospice Foundation to share some writings on the subject.
This piece was an attempt to trace the odd, circuitous routes that grief takes over decades.
#NGAW2026 #IrishHospiceFoundation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
This piece was an attempt to trace the odd, circuitous routes that grief takes over decades.
#NGAW2026 #IrishHospiceFoundation
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Reposted by Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS
It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Wraiths, frantic over the surface of the lake tonight. #LoughDerg
January 23, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Wraiths, frantic over the surface of the lake tonight. #LoughDerg
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This morning's optical phenomenon: a #Brocken #spectre around my head in #fog shortly after sunrise. It's unusual to see it at ground level - usually seen from aircraft over clouds. It's distinct from a #Heiligenschein, which produces a #halo around the observer's shadowed head from dew reflection.
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM
This morning's optical phenomenon: a #Brocken #spectre around my head in #fog shortly after sunrise. It's unusual to see it at ground level - usually seen from aircraft over clouds. It's distinct from a #Heiligenschein, which produces a #halo around the observer's shadowed head from dew reflection.
Conferred with my PhD blu this morning @unioflimerick.bsky.social- a fabulous occasion, beautifully choreographed, uplifting positive speeches, inclusive and celebratory.
Associate Professor Mariano Paz, one of my supervisors, presented me with my cap. All the hard work is so worth it. #ULGraduation
Associate Professor Mariano Paz, one of my supervisors, presented me with my cap. All the hard work is so worth it. #ULGraduation
January 20, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Conferred with my PhD blu this morning @unioflimerick.bsky.social- a fabulous occasion, beautifully choreographed, uplifting positive speeches, inclusive and celebratory.
Associate Professor Mariano Paz, one of my supervisors, presented me with my cap. All the hard work is so worth it. #ULGraduation
Associate Professor Mariano Paz, one of my supervisors, presented me with my cap. All the hard work is so worth it. #ULGraduation
Northern Lights making a watercolour of Lough Derg. #NorthernLights
January 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Northern Lights making a watercolour of Lough Derg. #NorthernLights
Aurora Borealis over the majestic River Shannon this evening. #NorthernLights
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Aurora Borealis over the majestic River Shannon this evening. #NorthernLights
Looking forward to reading with Alan McMonagle. Amy Barry & Marion Moynihan at the #PoetryLobby on January 27. The event is hosted by poet Anne Donnellan. #Poetry @poetryireland.bsky.social
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The Poetry Lobby hosted by Anne Donnellan - January | Poetry Ireland
The Poetry Lobby hosted by Anne Donnellan - January
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January 18, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Looking forward to reading with Alan McMonagle. Amy Barry & Marion Moynihan at the #PoetryLobby on January 27. The event is hosted by poet Anne Donnellan. #Poetry @poetryireland.bsky.social
www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/the...
www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/the...
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✨ Spring Series 2026 with the newly appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry, Vona Groarke.
Vona Groarke will open the series with a public lecture at Trinity College Dublin on Thurs 26 Feb.
🔗 Booking via: www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...
📷 Joe Shaughnessy
Vona Groarke will open the series with a public lecture at Trinity College Dublin on Thurs 26 Feb.
🔗 Booking via: www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...
📷 Joe Shaughnessy
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
✨ Spring Series 2026 with the newly appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry, Vona Groarke.
Vona Groarke will open the series with a public lecture at Trinity College Dublin on Thurs 26 Feb.
🔗 Booking via: www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...
📷 Joe Shaughnessy
Vona Groarke will open the series with a public lecture at Trinity College Dublin on Thurs 26 Feb.
🔗 Booking via: www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...
📷 Joe Shaughnessy
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We are delighted that the first Southword Poetry Podcast of 2026 is out now with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and is available to listen to on our website - southword.buzzsprout.com/share
#podcast
#podcast
Southword Poetry Podcast
The Southword Poetry Podcast is produced by the Munster Literature Centre. Each episode, a guest poet talks in depth about their latest work and shares a few of their poems. We also hear a poem from a...
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January 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
We are delighted that the first Southword Poetry Podcast of 2026 is out now with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and is available to listen to on our website - southword.buzzsprout.com/share
#podcast
#podcast
Reposted by Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS
Join us for the first instalment of The Poetry Lobby for 2026, presented in association with Poetry Ireland, and hosted by Anne Donnellan!
📅 Sunday, January 25th
🕒3:00pm-5:00pm
📍Menlo Park Hotel, Galway
🎫Free entry, Donations Welcome
📅 Sunday, January 25th
🕒3:00pm-5:00pm
📍Menlo Park Hotel, Galway
🎫Free entry, Donations Welcome
January 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Join us for the first instalment of The Poetry Lobby for 2026, presented in association with Poetry Ireland, and hosted by Anne Donnellan!
📅 Sunday, January 25th
🕒3:00pm-5:00pm
📍Menlo Park Hotel, Galway
🎫Free entry, Donations Welcome
📅 Sunday, January 25th
🕒3:00pm-5:00pm
📍Menlo Park Hotel, Galway
🎫Free entry, Donations Welcome