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Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social · 3h

Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 1d

New Louise Kennedy novel out next year.
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

New Louise Kennedy novel out next year

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

www.irishtimes.com

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 2h

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Margaret Royall has 7 poetry books plus a memoir. She was chosen as a featured Erbacce Prize poet for their Autumn journal. She is a creative writing retreat tutor & leads a women’s poetry group.

The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 17h

Irish library staff have been subjected to repeated harassment by far-right extremists, with attempts to remove queer books from shelves & threats of book burning. This new LGBTQ+ group is a welcome step for defending free speech, the library LGBTQ community & library users, in Ireland.

First LGBTQ+ network launches in Library Association of Ireland

The new queer network had its first meeting this October, marking a big step for the LGBTQ+ library community.

gcn.ie

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Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social · 13h

Delighted to do a session for Freedom to Write 25 - what a great group from all over the island. John Hewitt Society and @irishpen.bsky.social - these writers are ones to watch! Great to see the Shared Island Initiative in action!

The Freedom to Write authors at the final workshop around the table at the Irish Georgian Society's premises, Dublin.

Poet Siobhan Campbell with the Freedom to Write banner, logos of the Shared Island initiative and Arts Council NI

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Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social · 13h

@machapress.bsky.social @boylemo.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Aug 19

John Hewitt Birthday Readings!

Presented by The John Hewitt Society as part of @belfastfestival.bsky.social in association with Poetry Ireland!

Monday 27 October 2025 @ 8:00pm
The John Hewitt Pub, Belfast
Tickets: £8-10
Book tickets here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/joh...

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations Ed! Great piece of work.

Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill @donallmac.bsky.social · 22d

Just had a blissful half hour listening to my colleague, Ed Hogan's story, Little Green Man, on R4. Really compelling storytelling, beautifully written. It's available on Listen Now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC National Short Story Award - BBC National Short Story Award 2025 - Little Green Man by Edward Hogan - BBC Sounds

Edward Hogan's tender story is in the running for the 20th BBC National Short Story Award.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social · 8d

"Every old man I see
In October-coloured weather
Seems to say to me
'I was once your father.'"

Declan O'Connor performs Patrick Kavanagh's "Memory of My Father" in our latest film created with @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social.

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 12d

Joining this knockout panel as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
are @gphibbett.bsky.social, Sam Furlong & Sophie White, in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social.

Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...

#DBF25

Writing the Body - Dublin Book Festival

Joining our panel are poet and essayist Gustav Parker Hibbett whose debut collection High Jump as Icarus Story won the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Sam Furlong whose just-p...

dublinbookfestival.com

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 7d

Don't miss Confluences and Collaborations at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Wednesday October 29th at 6pm:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confluence...

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou and @LottoGoodCauses & #BelfastCityCouncil #FundedBelfastCCSupported

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 3d

We are delighted to announce that Susanna Galbraith's MORSELS will be launched in Dublin @gutterbookshop.bsky.social
as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

Tickets available at: dublinbookfestival.com/event/morsel...

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou

Book Launch: morsels - Dublin Book Festival

Susanna Galbraith’s debut collection, morsels (Macha Press) is a formally ambitious multi-sequence debut collection. The title series ‘morsels’ explores the ways language and its absences shape our re...

dublinbookfestival.com

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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 11d

📕Lots of new releases coming in October!
Here is just a small sample (of over 150 titles)—check out our fully searchable database First Flush 📕
booksirelandmagazine.com/new-releases/

@bansheepress.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · Aug 8

Now available to pre-order: FILLY, the stunning novel in verse by award-winning poet Rosamund Taylor. Out 9 October 2025 ✨

@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social

bansheepress.org/shop/p/filly...

Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press

248 pages Paperback 9 October 2025 ISBN: 978-1-7393979-8-2

bansheepress.org

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Katy Mack @katymack.bsky.social · 9d

A little reminder that my pamphlet First, I Turn Off the Light is currently out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 💡

www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Katy Mack - First, I Turn Off the Light | Broken Sleep Books

Katy Mack's First, I Turn Off the Light is as unsettling and disarming as it is compassionate and brave. Mack's poems are an exploration of illness and mental health, and in doing so are lyrical, imag...

www.brokensleepbooks.com

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 5d

Macha's Susanna Galbraith
in this weekend's @belfasttelegraph.co.uk: 'I’d be a big believer that nobody is writing on their own.'

photo credit, Susanna Galbraith: @jos.mcgookin

@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/feature...

NI poets discuss expression through the form and why it still entrances: ‘I don’t write these things willingly, I have to do it’

“I think it was in the air in some ways,” says Paul Muldoon, when asked about where his love for poetry comes from.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 12d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Zach Keali’i Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer. His stories appear in Raritan Quarterly, Reed Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Coachella Review, and more. He has published the chapbook Tiny Universes.

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social · 12d

Diolch/Many thanks to the judges+team @forwardprizes.bsky.social for including Naming the Trees as highly commended.🙏 Inspired by the campaign to save Penrhos Nature Reserve from being developed. Here's my copy in the leaf wave+rustle of where it began🌳💚 @arachnepress.bsky.social @nation.cymru

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 16d

Get ready! The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize are opening for entries soon. ✍️

OPEN FOR ENTRIES FROM 1 OCTOBER
Deadline 2 November 2025

Find out more: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

@kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @hollyhopkins.bsky.social

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Coming soon: Laura Wainwright’s debut poetry collection is a powerful exploration of resilience in the face of ecological and human crises. Publishing 15 October. Pre-order now www.serenbooks.com/book/the-sto...

This cover shows a lino cut print of a jagged seed head bursting against a blue sky. The text reads: The Storm's Flora, Laura Wainwright

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 17d

From today you can hear @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social talking about the poetry, wild swimming and ‘Battery Rocks’ on the BBC Countryfile #Plodcast. Listen here www.countryfile.com/podcast. Buy your copy of ‘Battery Rocks’ from your local bookshop!

Katrina Naomi holding up a copy of Battery Rocks and her Holyer an Gof Prize certificate.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 13d

On 27th and 28th September join Moya Cannon at Tradition Now, a festival of new traditional and folk music in Dublin where she will be reading her poetry at 2 different events.

For 27th September see here:
www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

For 28th September see here:
www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

Tradition Now: Room To Rhyme | National Concert Hall

The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.

www.nch.ie

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 18d

#poetsofbluesky #promptcombo #poemsabout

Hope you don't mind a polite shout-out for this zoom event happening soon! Would love to see many of you there to hear these fantastic poets.

DM me for zoom link x

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 16d

Beyond excited to see this fresh from the printers. It looks beautiful. The essay I co-wrote with Sally Huband about the impact of wind turbines on human and nonhuman health is one of the outcomes of the last year I'm most proud of. So thrilling to be published alongside such brilliant writers.

Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Just arrived from the printers.

The Book of Bogs began as a community response & has grown beyond the Walshaw Moor into a wider celebration & campaign for bogs & other peatland ecologies.

This was the most brilliant crowdfunded project, with over 40 contributions from artists & poets.

OUT NOW.

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 22d

"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it."

From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕

bansheepress.org/read/the-two...

‘The Two of Hearts’ by Niall McArdle — Banshee Press

The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck. ‘She has her heart in her throat,’ my mother always said. It…

bansheepress.org

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The Dublin Review @thedublinreview.bsky.social · 22d

100 ISSUES OLD TODAY! The new issue of The Dublin Review features work by Nathan O’Donnell, Laura Morris, Tara McEvoy, Molly McCloskey, Conor Dawson, alongside the mighty Colm Tóibín who also appeared in our very first issue 25 years ago. NUMBER 100 is out now in bookshops, or at thedublinreview.com

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 23d

Well, I’m going in again…

Another Lime Square Poets open mic tonight. It’s free so if you’re interested and don’t have other plans, do sign up #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #writingcommunity

Liam Boyle & Open Mic | Lime Square Poets

Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Liam Boyle followed by Open Mic!

www.limesquarepoets.com

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