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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · 2d

We'll be launching Issue 13 in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 30 October 🍁✨️

A big thank you to this issue's talented contributors, and to Aaron Sunderland Carey for the beautiful cover art. We can't wait to celebrate this issue with you all!
channelmag.org/issue-13/

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 5d

Liam Ó Maonlaí leads tributes to Manchán Magan who has died aged 55

“At the end of the night, the three of us held hands and said a prayer for Manchán on the street. It was before the word came. We got to the B&B and Rónán came in and said: ‘Tá sé imigh’.”
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Manchán Magan: Ó Maonlaí leads tributes to writer and documentary maker who has died aged 55

Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair

www.irishtimes.com

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · 9d

Have you read 'How the World Was Made' by Rory O'Sullivan?

Find it and more in Issue 12 of Channel 🌍

channelmag.org/current-issue/

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · 14d

Didn’t get enough culture on #CultureNight last week? Dip into our poetry and prose - our back catalogue is available at a special bundle rate 📖

channelmag.org/back-issues/

Back Issues - Channel, Ireland's Environmentalist Literary Journal

Shop back issues from Channel, Ireland's literary journal publishing poetry and prose that fosters connection with the natural world.

channelmag.org

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · 19d

Tomorrow at 1pm ❤️

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Sep 5

Heading to the Bere Island Arts Festival? Annette Skade will be there with her wonderful poetry book Holdfast, published by Channel last year.

www.bereislandartsfestival.ie/saturday-20t...

Celebration of the poet John O’Leary with Paula Meehan / Theo Dorgan / Annette Skade / Paddy O Conor — BERE ISLAND ARTS FESTIVAL

Location: The Drill Hall Admission is free but ticketed – reserve yours today! You are invited to a celebration of the poet John O Leary Join us for readings by Paula Meehan, Theo Dorgan, Annette Sk...

www.bereislandartsfestival.ie

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · 23d

Can we take a moment to appreciate the gorgeous artwork by artist Angela Duffy on our Issue 12 cover? 👏

The photo shows the back and front cover of Issue 12 of Channel magazine, which features an artwork named 'Complex Movements in Space 1' by artist Angela Duffy.

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dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 27d

Today’s the day! We are thrilled to announce our full programme of events for Dublin Book Festival 2025. All events now up on our website to browse and getting booking ✨ bit.ly/46ixJu1

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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · Sep 5

🗣️🗣️Calling all writers!

Curious about developing imagery in your work?

Award-winning poet and facilitator David McLoghlin's course 'Poetry, The Object Correlative' starts next Wednesday 10 September

Find out more 👇

irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/find...

Poetry, The Object Correlative with David McLoghlin - Irish Writers Centre

From the haiku poets, via the Imagists, to Plath and beyond, imagery has been continually identified as the engine of the poem. Finding imagery that conveys our deepest experience is at the centre of ...

irishwriterscentre.ie

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Sep 5

Pick up a copy of Holdfast here: channelmag.org/holdfast/

Holdfast - Channel, Ireland's Environmentalist Literary Journal

Holdfast by Annette Skade, a poetry chapbook paying tribute to nineteenth-century botanist Ellen Hutchins and to the resilience of seaweed.

channelmag.org

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Sep 5

Heading to the Bere Island Arts Festival? Annette Skade will be there with her wonderful poetry book Holdfast, published by Channel last year.

www.bereislandartsfestival.ie/saturday-20t...

Celebration of the poet John O’Leary with Paula Meehan / Theo Dorgan / Annette Skade / Paddy O Conor — BERE ISLAND ARTS FESTIVAL

Location: The Drill Hall Admission is free but ticketed – reserve yours today! You are invited to a celebration of the poet John O Leary Join us for readings by Paula Meehan, Theo Dorgan, Annette Sk...

www.bereislandartsfestival.ie

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Aug 29

We love this essay by Mai Ishikawa in our latest edition 🏙️

Have a read of it in Issue 12 of Channel: channelmag.org/current-issue/

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Aug 26

Finishing off our recap of recorded readings from Issue 12, here's Kate Cheney coming to us from her Atlantic island home with a selection of poetry 🌊

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jun 20

Completing our series of recorded readings, Kate Cheney, whose poem 'A Walk Before the Solstice' featured in our latest issue, reads a selection of her poetry - and treats us to vignettes of the Atlantic island off the coast of Maine where she lives 🌊

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Aug 24

The next instalment in our recap of recorded readings from Issue 12 is @clairebooker.bsky.social with 'Pansies, Tray of Six' ❤️

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jun 17

Next up in our series of recorded readings from Issue 12, @clairebooker.bsky.social reads her beautiful poem 'Pansies, Tray of Six' 🌺

Find out more about the issue:
channelmag.org/current-issue/

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Aug 23

Listen back to Ryan Delaney reading an extract from ‘Not Even for a Song’, his short story in Issue 12

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Aug 17

In case you missed our recorded readings from Issue 12, we'll be sharing them again over the course of the coming week ❤️

Here's Lalini Shanela Ranaraja reading from her essay 'Arboresque'.

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jun 6

The first of a series of recorded readings from Issue 12, which we'll be sharing over the coming weeks. Lalini Shanela Ranaraja reads from her beautiful essay 'Arboresque' 🍃✨️

Find out more about the issue:
channelmag.org/current-issue/

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Aug 12

It’s been nearly three months since we launched Issue 12!

Have you got your copy yet?

channelmag.org/current-issue/

The photo shows a table with copies of several editions of Channel Magazine. The foreground focus is on multiple copies of Issue 12, the latest edition.

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 25

Issue 12 is available for order: channelmag.org/current-issue/

Current Issue - Channel, Ireland's Environmentalist Literary Journal

Issue 12 of Channel, Ireland's literary journal publishing poetry and prose that fosters connection with the natural world, is now available.

channelmag.org

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 25

"This land was never certain of itself, nor kind / to shoe leather, no woolpack / and no feather bed."

from My Mother Contemplates Her Callows Farm by Patrick Deeley, Issue 12 of Channel🌱

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Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) 🌈 @grizonne.bsky.social · Jul 20

Overjoyed to be part of @channel-lit.bsky.social with my poem 'The hill with the frogs', about living with polycystic ovaries and finding comfort and awe in nature ☺️🐸

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 18

Looking forward to this evening @earagailarts.bsky.social! 😃

Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 13

We can't wait to attend the Journals Fleadh @earagailarts.bsky.social on Friday! Our contributor Rory O'Sullivan will be reading some of his work, and we're looking forward to hearing from @tolkajournal.bsky.social too.

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 16

The brilliant Annette Skade, the author of Holdfast, Channel's first single-authored publication, will be at Bantry Bookshop tomorrow for the @wcorklitfest.bsky.social 🥳

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 13

We can't wait to attend the Journals Fleadh @earagailarts.bsky.social on Friday! Our contributor Rory O'Sullivan will be reading some of his work, and we're looking forward to hearing from @tolkajournal.bsky.social too.

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thoughts for a warm day from Kiss of a Wasp by Rhona McAdam 🐝

Read it and more in Issue 12 of Channel! channelmag.org/current-issue/

The photo is of a portion of a poem titled Kiss of a Wasp by Rhona McAdam.

The excerpt reads:

On what may have been /
the last warm day, I fail /
to rebuff a last /
lost wasp who mistakes my mouth /
for a landing bay. /
Who takes my breath as an invitation to come inside.

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 9

"I took Just So Stories and distilled it down into nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and rebuilt what I needed into a poem about evolution and environmental destruction in Florida."

Listen to @christafairbrother.bsky.social read Just So Armadillo: christafairbrotherwrites.substack.com/p/just-so-ar...

Just so Armadillo - an audio reading

I’m currently working on a collection of zoo poems.

christafairbrotherwrites.substack.com

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Channel @channel-lit.bsky.social · Jul 7

Mondays remind us of this poem by Caitríona Lane in our latest issue 💇

You'll find the full poem and many more in Issue 12 of Channel, available to order online: channelmag.org/current-issue/