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Maeve O'Sullivan

@maevedos.bsky.social

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Dublin-based poet, educator and mentor who also likes to sing & travel. My sixth collection of poetry is ‘Where All Ladders Start’ (Alba Publishing, Nov 2024). Haiku nerd / ninja. Newly revamped website (incl. book info & sales): www.maeveosullivan.com

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 12d

#Dublin City welcoming NFL players and supporters this weekend. We’ve been playing gaelic football matches in the US since 1886 so I guess it’s our turn to host now.

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 11d

Lovely!

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 12d

#Dublin City welcoming NFL players and supporters this weekend. We’ve been playing gaelic football matches in the US since 1886 so I guess it’s our turn to host now.

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glsherid @glshz.bsky.social · 16d

The irony of a show full of people wanting to win a house deposit being murdered one by one by an estate agent #TraitorsIRL

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 17d

It’s an important journal!

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks Jenn. Yes I know. I usually submit to most of their issues. You?

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 17d

things I’d forgotten
about my old friend —
obituary

Written in September 2019 and published in Femku journal in October 2019. #senryusunday

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 25d

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 26d

Maeve is both a great poet and a tremendous teacher - hugely knowledgeable about all sorts of different forms of poetry. Well worth your time.

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 25d

Very evocative 🌹

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 26d

@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @irishlittimes.bsky.social @nessao.bsky.social @gagebybell.bsky.social reposts of the post above would be much appreciated! 🙏🏻

Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · 26d

@iamagnat.bsky.social Thanks for the RT, Clodagh!

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 26d

Recent Releases... any on your reading list? All on www.kennys.ie

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Sep 7

Irish Gaelic, yes. The Scots have their Gaelic language too, which is somewhat similar but not the same!

Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Sep 7

a woman in a dress is standing in front of a microphone and smiling .

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Sep 7

Congrats & me too! Mine is a short poem with a long title: ‘The Stainless Steel Bowl (that Still Lives in my Kitchen)!

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’d love to have been a flapper in the 1920s!

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Sep 7

Here’s my offering for this week’s #senryusunday, in two languages! I wrote it around a year ago. A contrast to tonight’s lunar eclipse! 🌒

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Aug 31

Here's a monoku that I wrote four years ago this month:
'bank holiday black salt darkening cucumber slices'. It took three years to find a home but was eventually published in The Pan Haiku Review Issue 3, July 2024. #senryusunday

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Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thanks Jenn, encouraging as always!

Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ten years ago, my sibs and I cleared & sold our family home, a year after our Mum's death (our Dad had pre-deceased her). I found letting go of the garden as hard as letting go of the house. This was published in Blithe Spirit. #senryusunday

childhood swing
long gone from here
- wild mushrooms

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · Aug 21

"My iPhone has deduced that I have a new partner. Ever since he and I took that trip to Paris after the final Covid lockdown, it’s been presenting me with automatic slideshows"

Wonderful haibun from @maevedos.bsky.social. Love the light humour in this:

www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/OSull...

MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Maeve O’Sullivan: Artificial Intelligence

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