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Tonight! @deanbrowne.bsky.social @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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
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smaychel.bsky.social
Hello bluesky!

If you're thinking of giving some poetry for Christmas, it'd mean a lot to me if you considered picking up a copy of my book from Tapsalteerie.

Featuring poems about mushrooms, particle accelerators, folklore and gender, among other things.

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Once I Carried Three Crows by Rachel Plummer - Tapsalteerie
'Once I Carried Three Crows' is the highly anticipated new poetry collection from Edinburgh-based poet & writer Rachel Plummer
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November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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siobhandowling.bsky.social
Do they mean white straight Anglo American masculinity?

2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman

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The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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jesstraynor.bsky.social
Delighted the news is out about our next two poetry titles from @bansheepress.bsky.social - new collections from Tim MacGabhann and Billy Ramsell coming your way in 2026 ✨️
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Banshee Press has acquired Found in a Context of Destruction, a debut poetry collection from novelist and memoirist Tim MacGabhann, and Render, the third collection from acclaimed poet Billy Ramsell 👇 #BookSky
Banshee Press snaps up two new poetry collections from Tim MacGabhann and Billy Ramsell
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November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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jesstraynor.bsky.social
It's been a really busy month, so just now getting round to putting up signed copies of New Arcana for sale on my website ✨️🔮

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New Arcana — Jessica Traynor
Jessica Traynor’s New Arcana explores grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive rel...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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bansheepress.bsky.social
A wonderful review for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social in @belfasttelegraph.co.uk by James McNaney ✨

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Book review: Filly by Rosamund Taylor is an unsettling yet moving novel in verse
Rosamund Taylor’s new novel in verse, Filly, is both a moving and sensitive coming-of-age story about a young lesbian woman in 2000s Ireland, while also being a deeply unsettling account of an affair ...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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jenwritesagain.bsky.social
Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Rosamund Taylor on morsels by Susanna Galbraith @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou and @LottoGoodCauses & #BelfastCityCouncil #FundedBelfastCCSupported @ulsterpresents.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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jesstraynor.bsky.social
High (and well deserved) praise for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social ✨️✨️✨️

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booksireland.bsky.social Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · Oct 14
'To grow up a queer girl in the Ireland of that time is to pass through a series of small annihilations. Taylor writes those annihilations with exceptional power.'

Ruby Eastwood on Filly, by Rosamund Taylor @jesstraynor.bsky.social
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Adolescence as an open wound—Filly, by Rosamund Taylor - Books Ireland
The experiences it depicts are raw, humiliating, and incandescent.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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jesstraynor.bsky.social
Can't wait for tomorrow night's reading @kildarereaders.bsky.social with Kimberly Campanello hosted by @catgander.bsky.social 🔮✨️
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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jesstraynor.bsky.social
🚨We are open for book submissions for two more days!🚨
October 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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bansheepress.bsky.social
Happy publication day to FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 🐎

‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy

‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty

‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry

‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson
October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
I'll be reading as part of The Shaking Bog festival with music by Ultan O'Brien. It's on Sunday, 12th October, 6pm, at Curtlestown Church in Wicklow. Please join us!
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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bansheepress.bsky.social
We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨

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Celebrate the launch of Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press
We hope you can join us to raise a glass to Filly , the beautiful new verse novel by acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor, in Books Upstairs on Wednesday 15 October! Banshee poetry editor Jessica…
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September 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.
It's genocide.
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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poetryireland.bsky.social
Professor Vona Groarke at an appointment ceremony for her new role as The Ireland Chair of Poetry, which took place in the National Concert Hall yesterday. Vona Groarke will be the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry, and her tenure will run from until November 2028.

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September 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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zosiasamosia.bsky.social
This article on #LOTE has long been a passion project of mine. I can’t express how grateful I am to the brilliant Sarah Sharpe at JISS/Aberdeen for making time/space for (as I was then) unaffiliated ECRs to develop their research and make that idea a thing. jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/article/411/...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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jesstraynor.bsky.social
FILLY by the brilliant @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social has arrived! Can't wait for this glorious novel in verse to be out in the world ✨️✨️✨️

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September 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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book cover: grey cat with mysterious eyes
September 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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One more day to preorder Filly on sale! @waterstones.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social

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July 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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poetryireland.bsky.social
Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce Alvy Carragher (Ireland) and Ali Choudhary (UK) as winners of the The Eavan Boland Award 2025.

Full press release here: www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne...

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July 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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bansheepress.bsky.social
FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's beautiful forthcoming novel-in-verse, is now available for pre-order from Waterstones.com at 25% off RRP. This offer is available until midnight on 31 July. Enter the code SUMMER25 at checkout! #WPreorder

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July 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM