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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 8d

My friend Sarah Clancy is currently in IOF captivity, kidnapped last night when her boat, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was illegally intercepted in international waters.

Some boats are still sailing. Do what you can - wherever you are - to amplify & protest. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 8d

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 15d

Our friend, poet and activist Sarah Clancy, is on the Spectre, one of the boats on the Flotilla which was attacked last night. Contact the Taoiseach and Tánaiste to demand protection, there must be safe passage for all trying to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza. #LiftTheSiege

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 18d

New @fallowmedia.bsky.social arrived. Superb company of John Christopher Vaughan, Daniel Fraser, Marguerite Duras (tr Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan), Maria Sledmere, Stephen Sexton, Lisa Robertson, Owen Hatherley, Devki Panchmatia, Maija Makela, Russell Persson and Lalla Romano (tr Brian Robert Moore).

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 24d

Readings from Stephen Sexton, Daniel Fraser, Devki Panhcmatia & John Christopher Vaughan at 6.30, this thursday in @booksupstairs.bsky.social to launch Fallow 2. 🌹somehow giving goth wedding invite... come & drink a glass of wine 🌹🖤

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 26d

in the new issue of fallow, i wrote about the great Alice Notley🌹 you can order the issue here (or get one at the launch in Books Upstairs, at 6pm this Thursday) fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26d

So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 26d

in the new issue of fallow, i wrote about the great Alice Notley🌹 you can order the issue here (or get one at the launch in Books Upstairs, at 6pm this Thursday) fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · Sep 1

also idk who sees these posts but I will be giving a mini lecture on Addison Rae, High Fashion and fascism tonight in The Winding Stair as part of Salon Rógaire, it's a fundraiser for SWAI and it's nearly sold out 💕 www.eventbrite.ie/e/salon-roga...

Salon Rógaire: Cairdeas

This is a special one to celebrate one of lifes greatest pleasures- friendship!

www.eventbrite.ie

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · Sep 1

New @fallowmedia.bsky.social with a Marguerite Duras film script & companion essays by Daniel Fraser & myself, Lisa Robertson on Adnan, Maija Makela on Notley, Owen Hatherley, Stephen Sexton, Lalla Romano, JC Vaughan, Maria Sledmere, Devki Panchmatia & Russell Persson fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · Sep 1

...and here is the cover, featuring an image from a 1910s archive of wildflowers of Palestine. Our launch will be at 6pm on 18/09 in Books Upstairs, with readings, free wine and all are welcome.🌊

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · Sep 1

so excited to share the new issue of fallow, with contributions from some of my favourite writers... including newly translated Marguerite Duras (!!), Lisa Robertson on Etel Adnan, poems by Maria Sledmere, Stephen Sexton and more, you can pre-order here: fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · Jul 24

from Etel Adnan’s XXXIX from The Arab Apocalypse (1989) @arablit.bsky.social

from Etel Adnan’s XXXIX from The Arab Apocalypse (1989) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53854/xxxix-from-the-arab-apocalypse

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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · Jul 23

Bisan in Gaza, asks for a call of action tomorrow, 7/24/25.

“Bang the pots” in front of law makers jobs, and anywhere noise can be heard in protest of genocide.

“because the sound of our empty stomachs and the voice of humanity, must be louder than their brutality.”

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · Jul 23

Donate and get involved if you can. We have to do SOMETHING. ANYTHING.

Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · Jul 23

I just donated to this in support of @eligoldstone.bsky.social Olivia Sudjic and Jack Underwood’s hunger strike for Gaza

chuffed.org/project/help...

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

chuffed.org

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

You can read Maija's essay on ghosthunting in TOLKA Issue Nine, alongside writing from Kevin Breathnach, Ruby Eastwood, Annie Ernaux, and many others. www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Issue Nine — TOLKA

Issue Nine, published in May 2025, is now available. It includes: Maija Makela – Ghost-bait Kevin Breathnach – A Sample of the Truth Annie Ernaux translated by Anna Moschovakis – The Possession...

www.tolkajournal.org

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

Fleadh-ing! The loveliest weekend with other editors from Ireland’s incredible literary journal community ☀️☀️☀️

Huge thanks to Tom Roseingrave for organising, to @earagailarts.bsky.social for having us, to @maijasofia.bsky.social for reading so beautifully from her TOLKA piece 💚💚💚

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · Jul 7

Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · Jul 7

Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv

Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · Jul 12

Anthony Opal from the wonderful Economy Press has just published this work from Fanny Howe.

I wish that postage from the US weren't so expensive, or that they had distribution in the UK.

THE SILVER AGE — The Economy Press

The Economy Press | About | ︎ View Cart THE SILVER AGE “An organ of the soul: liver-red and shaped like a potato...

theeconomypress.com

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Jul 10

Remembering the late and wonderful Fanny Howe, 1940 - 2025, with this extract from a long poem called ‘The Long Wrong’, which was published in Poetry Ireland Review 73, edited by Michael Smith.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · Jul 10

Please sign and share this petition calling on the government to overturn its disgraceful refusal and to issue visas to the children from GAA Palestine for their trip to Ireland. #FreeGAAPalestine
my.uplift.ie/petitions/le...

Let Them Play

Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine

my.uplift.ie

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · Jul 9

I thought of you as soon as I heard 💔💔

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · Jul 9

everyday, in my head, trying to think about resistance, I think of Fanny Howe's question: "why be obedient to a world that will end?" as an antidote to the "easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" thing 💔 (from her sequence 'Q')

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · Jul 9

From our Art of Poetry interview with Fanny Howe:

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