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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

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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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 19h

Huge congratulations Róisín: it was such a pleasure to read and spend time with your work. 🌱🌻🪶

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 20d

I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague.
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Keynote Event: ECR & Career Building Panel – The International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies

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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · Sep 8

The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thank you Sasha! 🥰🥰🙏🍃

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · Aug 1

Great & wide-ranging review of The Strongbox, alongside Gboyega Odubanjo and Jen Campbell, by @zoebrigley.bsky.social & now online @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m so grateful for the review & so pleased when The Strongbox reaches a reader. @carcanet.bsky.social

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · Jul 21

‘I don’t believe in the unspeakable or untranslatable. That’s imperial logic and privilege – empire bombs incessantly, and then says the deaths are unspeakable? No, we need to speak about every bomb, every destroyed body, every hour that these bombs landed’–Don Mee Choi, Chicago Review of Books 68.1

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you Ellen 🙏🍃❤️

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · Jul 18

I am happy to be included in the Versopolis listing of poets from Ireland, but more than anything, I am profoundly grateful to @maryodonnell.bsky.social for writing such a generous and incisive short essay on my work. Thank you so much Mary 🙏🍃

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Leeanne Quinn | Versopolis Poetry

Versopolis Review is a pan-European cultural and humanities magazine.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · Jul 7

Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · Jul 7

Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv

Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett

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Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social · May 22

'Beginnings Over and Over' are present in every moment. How nourishing it was to read with poetry pals @ilfdublin.bsky.social in celebration of this gorgeous book, holistically edited @leeannequinn.bsky.social
Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · May 8

Very happy to share the speaker list for "Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st Century", a two day conference I've co-organized with Ronan Crowley. Taking place later this month at @goetheuni.bsky.social. Look at this amazing lineup of speakers!!

Modernist Life Righting

Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st century

Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt

22-23 May 2025

Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida)

Scarlett Baron (University College London)

Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin)

Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Julia Dallaway (University of Oxford)

Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

Megan Girdwood (University of Edinburgh)

Leeann Lane (Dublin City University)

Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton)

Lianna Mark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Emilie Morin (University of York)

Georgina Nugent (University College Cork)

Leeanne Quinn (poet-creative)

Sam Thompson (Queen's University Belfast)

Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin)

For more information about the conference or to register, please contact Georgina Nugent georginanugent@ucc.ie or Ronan Crowley crowley@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · May 6

A sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a ‘magnetic field of memory’, Don Mee Choi explores South Korea’s violent recent history in a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective

Mirror Nation is out now in the UK and Europe 💫
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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · May 4

Great review of @eireannmor.bsky.social's "mesmerising portrait of the silent patterns that paint our world": observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Poetry book of the month: Mind your language

Éireann Lorsung’s vibrant debut delights in the slipperiness of the world and the words we use to capture it

observer.co.uk

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · Apr 19

Thank you to Mary O'Donnell, Enda Wyley & Peter Sirr for their generous praise of the work of Mai Ishikawa, Emer Lyons, Róisín Leggett Bohan & Cal O'Reilly in Beginnings Over and Over. Please take a listen to the Books For Breakfast podcast so you can hear just how brilliant these poets are 🌱

77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetry

Books for Breakfast · Episode

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Apr 14

Congratulations to Sasha Dugdale, who has been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox!

Well done to Sasha, and all the other shortlisted writers and publishers! 🎉

www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · Apr 16

Very happy to have a poem in last Saturday's Irish Times 🏭🙏

Poem: Landscape with Factory
By Leeanne Quinn

You can see a lot from the hill, the grey breadth
of the factory, its red lights, always on.
And other hills beyond this one, where the earth
is also red. I remember flying over a blue
lake. It could have been the last thing I saw
or the image I returned to after something else
occurred. The water in the lake
behaves in a similar way, it warms in summer
while its layers grow cool, no hidden currents
just the wind in the clear.
It has a cold mind, like the mind flying over –
empty of earthly things. I know the grey smoke
makes it difficult to breathe, in small ways
I don’t yet recognise. In summer the leaves
hide much of the grey — small particles
are still borne on the air. I’m ashamed of this
but tell no one — I can hold my breath
when it matters most.

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · Apr 3

Happy publication day to Don Mee Choi, whose extraordinary National Book Award-winning work DMZ Colony is out today in the UK and Europe 💫

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