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Amanda Bell

@gagebybell.bsky.social

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Poet, writer, editor: books by Doire Press, Alba Publishing, Fine Press Poetry, wildflower poetry press, and The Onslaught Press. Assistant editor of The Haibun Journal. www.clearasabellwritingservices.ie

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Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Nov 16

The November super moon seemed like a good time to join here - and how lovely it is to find so many familiar names. As an intro, here's a recent piece featuring some of my interests
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The Oldcastle Bell, by Amanda Bell

On tending to the perfect apple glade in East Mayo

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 2d

This happened just now.

Pre-orders up!!! Deeply grateful to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and all my teachers at UCD and the kind writers who wrote the blurbs including @gagebybell.bsky.social and @martinadalton.bsky.social and so many others …

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Róisín Ní Neachtain - I, bird | Broken Sleep Books

Róisín Ní Neachtain's I, bird is a fragmented, lyrical reckoning with grief, trauma, and the porous boundary between body and voice. Structured in poetic prose and verse, the collection moves between ...

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Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations, Roisin - what a beautiful cover ❤

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 18d

Not guilty

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 18d

I had to fly unfortunately - it was a great event , well done 💪x

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 18d

Xx

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 18d

Your name change was interesting 😉

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 18d

🥂

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 18d

Congratulations @sineadgleeson.bsky.social and @louisekennedy.bsky.social and thank you @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social - great to see a big group of people celebrating Norah Hoult today in Terenure 💫

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations!

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · 26d

Great opportunity to work with the excellent @maevedos.bsky.social

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations 💫

Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social · Aug 18

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Aug 9

Yes I'm delighted to see that 😀

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Aug 4

Honoured that my 2016 collection Undercurrents is the Haiku Foundation's Book of the Week. Thanks to Dan Campbell for his beautiful essay 🙏
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Book of the Week - Undercurrents by Amanda Bell - The Haiku Foundation

Peggy Willis Lyles’ poetry occupies a unique space within the tradition of contemporary nature writing.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · Jul 21

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.

She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”

With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Fascinating piece about poetry, AI, and what it means to be human. Bravo Brendan O'Connor.

Can Artificial Intelligence write better poetry than a poet?

Rita Ann Higgins, and entrepreneur & journalist, Mark Little. We asked ChatGPT to “write a poem in the style of Rita Ann Higgins.” We then asked Rita Ann Higgins to read it on air, alongside one of ...

Reposted by Amanda Bell

Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Jun 18

A reminder that this FREE #workshop for #haiku beginners takes place on Fri from 2-330 in the St. Andrew’s Community Centre, as part of this year’s #Rialto #Community #Arts #Festival in #Dublin8. All welcome, no experience of creative writing is required. All event info on: rialtocommunityarts.com

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Jun 15

For Fathers' Day, from *First the Feathers* @doirepress.bsky.social

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · May 26

Thrilled to have 3 new poems in Live Encounters 🙏 @doirepress.bsky.social liveencounters.net/2025-le-pw/a...

Amanda Bell - Before I knew things ended - Live Encounters

Before I knew things ended, poems by Amanda Bell. Live Encounters Poetry & Writing June 2025.

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Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · May 20

Lovely! Congratulations, Róisín 💫

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · May 15

Do come and enjoy this fine line-up of poets for a reading this evening in Harold's Cross Community Hall. 💫🎤

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · May 5

A great line-up of poets reading in Harold's Cross Festival on Thursday 15th May - come and join us, and check out the full programme at haroldscross.org

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · May 5

A great line-up of poets reading in Harold's Cross Festival on Thursday 15th May - come and join us, and check out the full programme at haroldscross.org

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Apr 23

Wendell Berry

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Mar 22

Thanks, Lucy 🐈🥰

Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social · Mar 8

Delighted to have a haibun about our cat Tamburlaine the Great on @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social tomorrow 🙏💫