Martina Dalton
@martinadalton.bsky.social
Poet | Poems in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Banshee, The Irish Times, Irish Independent, Rattle, Magma. | Irish Book Awards Poem of the Year ‘22
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening; tr. Stephen Mitchell
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening; tr. Stephen Mitchell
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening; tr. Stephen Mitchell
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening; tr. Stephen Mitchell
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On Wednesday @ucc.ie are hosting an amazing FREE event w/ poets @deanbrowne.bsky.social & @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social. Dean's debut collection After Party is published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social and Rosamund's verse novel Filly by @bansheepress.bsky.social
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Poets Dean Browne and Rosamund Taylor in conversation
UCC School of English & Digital Humanities presents a reading and discussion with two exceptional young Irish poets
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November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
On Wednesday @ucc.ie are hosting an amazing FREE event w/ poets @deanbrowne.bsky.social & @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social. Dean's debut collection After Party is published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social and Rosamund's verse novel Filly by @bansheepress.bsky.social
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www.eventbrite.ie/e/poets-dean...
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Applications for the 2026 TSF Poetry Workshop are open and close on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish time.
More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Applications for the 2026 TSF Poetry Workshop are open and close on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish time.
More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
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❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
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And the song goes on, beautiful.
Rilke
Rilke
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
And the song goes on, beautiful.
Rilke
Rilke
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I am and will be a lifelong fan of Mícheál McCann's work 💘 @thegallerypress.bsky.social @irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I am and will be a lifelong fan of Mícheál McCann's work 💘 @thegallerypress.bsky.social @irishtimes.com
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann is pleased to announce the appointment of Claire Power as the new Director of the organisation.
Read more on our website at www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-....
Read more on our website at www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-....
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann is pleased to announce the appointment of Claire Power as the new Director of the organisation.
Read more on our website at www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-....
Read more on our website at www.poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-....
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35 new courses for 35 years of the Irish Writers Centre.
We're delighted to unveil our first batch of new creative writing courses from January 2026 onwards, covering a huge range of interests and for writers at every stage of their journey: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/
We're delighted to unveil our first batch of new creative writing courses from January 2026 onwards, covering a huge range of interests and for writers at every stage of their journey: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
35 new courses for 35 years of the Irish Writers Centre.
We're delighted to unveil our first batch of new creative writing courses from January 2026 onwards, covering a huge range of interests and for writers at every stage of their journey: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/
We're delighted to unveil our first batch of new creative writing courses from January 2026 onwards, covering a huge range of interests and for writers at every stage of their journey: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/
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Thrilled with this review in the Australian Book Review of The Making of a Poem which gives strong praise too, to its sibling The Process of Poetry. #Australian #Australia #Poetry #poets
...this makes her, to my mind, perfect for the job of trading out her subjects' insights into their crafts...The interviews are full of the knowledge provided by expertise."
Reviewer David McCooey gave lots of love, too, to The Process of Poetry! www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... #books
Reviewer David McCooey gave lots of love, too, to The Process of Poetry! www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... #books
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Thrilled with this review in the Australian Book Review of The Making of a Poem which gives strong praise too, to its sibling The Process of Poetry. #Australian #Australia #Poetry #poets
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Aosdána member and Saoi Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded Honorary Doctorate of Literature by UCC
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Aosdána member and Saoi Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded Honorary Doctorate of Literature by UCC - Aosdána
The trailblazing poet, scholar, editor, Saoi of Aosdána and former Ireland Professor of Poetry, Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was honoured the Honorary Doctorate by University College Cork (UCC) fo...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Aosdána member and Saoi Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded Honorary Doctorate of Literature by UCC
aosdana.artscouncil.ie/general/aosd...
aosdana.artscouncil.ie/general/aosd...
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Writing.ie is an online magazine site designed to help you improve your writing & get published.
If you are an author and would like to contribute to Writing.ie do please get in touch!
& it’s also free to add your events!!
Welcome to our community✍️
#writersky
If you are an author and would like to contribute to Writing.ie do please get in touch!
& it’s also free to add your events!!
Welcome to our community✍️
#writersky
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Writing.ie is an online magazine site designed to help you improve your writing & get published.
If you are an author and would like to contribute to Writing.ie do please get in touch!
& it’s also free to add your events!!
Welcome to our community✍️
#writersky
If you are an author and would like to contribute to Writing.ie do please get in touch!
& it’s also free to add your events!!
Welcome to our community✍️
#writersky
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We're launching next Thursday 27th November in the Digital Depot - come one, come all!!
THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin
🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.
More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week launching on Thursday 27th November in The Digital Depot, Dublin
🎨The Conversation by Limerick-based artist Robert Ryan, selected from the 195th RHA Annual Exhibition / Cover design Eimear Gavin.
More info stingingfly.org/newsletter/
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We're launching next Thursday 27th November in the Digital Depot - come one, come all!!
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Don't be tardy! Submit!
We're pleased to present the Abridged 0 -108: Adrenochrome Submission Call. See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! Image by Mark Tamer: www.marktamer.co.uk #poetry #irishmagazine
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Don't be tardy! Submit!
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The new and updated edition of The Irish Writers Handbook has just been published! Full of great advice on the craft of writing, editing, publishing and lots more. Thanks to @ruthmckee.bsky.social @booksireland.bsky.social for including my essay 'Libraries and Pursuing a Creative Life'
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The new and updated edition of The Irish Writers Handbook has just been published! Full of great advice on the craft of writing, editing, publishing and lots more. Thanks to @ruthmckee.bsky.social @booksireland.bsky.social for including my essay 'Libraries and Pursuing a Creative Life'
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It was all going so swimmingly until the poetry workshop leader suggested alliterative verse was dead.
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It was all going so swimmingly until the poetry workshop leader suggested alliterative verse was dead.
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Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
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The Art of Surfacing, our e-book featuring work from the 14 emerging poets of this year's Introductions / Céadlínte series is now available to purchase!
Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/
Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊
Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/
Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Art of Surfacing, our e-book featuring work from the 14 emerging poets of this year's Introductions / Céadlínte series is now available to purchase!
Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/
Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊
Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/
Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊
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HYMN TO ALL THE RESTLESS GIRLS
by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
&
FALLEN
by Audrey Molloy
The Gallery Press Launch @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week 💫
by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
&
FALLEN
by Audrey Molloy
The Gallery Press Launch @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week 💫
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
HYMN TO ALL THE RESTLESS GIRLS
by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
&
FALLEN
by Audrey Molloy
The Gallery Press Launch @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week 💫
by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
&
FALLEN
by Audrey Molloy
The Gallery Press Launch @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week 💫
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"No pairing of hill and lake in Lakeland have a closer partnership than these [Mellbreak and Crummock Water]" ~ Alfred Wainwright
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"No pairing of hill and lake in Lakeland have a closer partnership than these [Mellbreak and Crummock Water]" ~ Alfred Wainwright
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Putting a draft of a poem away, I was just struck by the madness that is this thing that we do; that we scribble something down in the hope it finds ears, eyes, hearts; maybe even lodges in them. And yet we do. This is what faith is. Carry on.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Putting a draft of a poem away, I was just struck by the madness that is this thing that we do; that we scribble something down in the hope it finds ears, eyes, hearts; maybe even lodges in them. And yet we do. This is what faith is. Carry on.
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Submission Call now open! Poetry Required!
We're pleased to present the Abridged 0 -108: Adrenochrome Submission Call. See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! Image by Mark Tamer: www.marktamer.co.uk #poetry #irishmagazine
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Submission Call now open! Poetry Required!
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What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.
Rilke
Joseph Beuys
Rilke
Joseph Beuys
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.
Rilke
Joseph Beuys
Rilke
Joseph Beuys
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The Abridged Adrenochrome Submission Call is now open! Poetry Required!
We're pleased to present the Abridged 0 -108: Adrenochrome Submission Call. See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! Image by Mark Tamer: www.marktamer.co.uk #poetry #irishmagazine
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Abridged Adrenochrome Submission Call is now open! Poetry Required!