S.C. Flynn
@scyflynn.bsky.social
Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025).
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S.C. Flynn
@scyflynn.bsky.social
· May 26
An Ocean Called Hope
From the windswept Famine Trail of Ireland to the starlit skies of the Southern Hemisphere, this collection by S.C. Flynn explores places and the memo...
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It's publication day for my new poetry collection "An Ocean Called Hope" @downingfield.bsky.social
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"Waiting for - Anything at All"
- shall we get on with it?
*they do not get on with it*
*they do not get on with it*
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"Waiting for - Anything at All"
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Today’s @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social restored bruised faith in the books industry. Passionate people, labours of love.
And I finally got hold of longtime mutual @scyflynn.bsky.social’s book direct from Will at @renardpress.com, and met the man himself!
And I finally got hold of longtime mutual @scyflynn.bsky.social’s book direct from Will at @renardpress.com, and met the man himself!
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Today’s @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social restored bruised faith in the books industry. Passionate people, labours of love.
And I finally got hold of longtime mutual @scyflynn.bsky.social’s book direct from Will at @renardpress.com, and met the man himself!
And I finally got hold of longtime mutual @scyflynn.bsky.social’s book direct from Will at @renardpress.com, and met the man himself!
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Superman listening to Free Jazz in his Fortress of Solitude
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Superman listening to Free Jazz in his Fortress of Solitude
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Rowing out to a middle of a lake in Scotland to pick up a watertight package containing 10 new copies of "Conversations with Friends"
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Rowing out to a middle of a lake in Scotland to pick up a watertight package containing 10 new copies of "Conversations with Friends"
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The new issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social is out today - featuring my poem 'Before the End' and a formidable lineup of brilliant writing. Check it out!
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The new issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social is out today - featuring my poem 'Before the End' and a formidable lineup of brilliant writing. Check it out!
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Somebody just liked me on a dating app and then asked me to review his book. I am aghast.
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Somebody just liked me on a dating app and then asked me to review his book. I am aghast.
One-Time Code
The sky is a broken plate, pale and crueland lightning scratches oblivion’s face. Each step in this funeral processionis a shadow leading to a heart of silence. Old people watch like portraits in a vacuuma future they never thought would arrive. Butterflies of a forgotten…
The sky is a broken plate, pale and crueland lightning scratches oblivion’s face. Each step in this funeral processionis a shadow leading to a heart of silence. Old people watch like portraits in a vacuuma future they never thought would arrive. Butterflies of a forgotten…
One-Time Code
The sky is a broken plate, pale and crueland lightning scratches oblivion’s face. Each step in this funeral processionis a shadow leading to a heart of silence. Old people watch like portraits in a vacuuma future they never thought would arrive. Butterflies of a forgotten summer:faces changed to masks staring with helpless grief at an irrevocable world,a distant chance now truer than truth. Published in Rochford Street Review
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November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
One-Time Code
The sky is a broken plate, pale and crueland lightning scratches oblivion’s face. Each step in this funeral processionis a shadow leading to a heart of silence. Old people watch like portraits in a vacuuma future they never thought would arrive. Butterflies of a forgotten…
The sky is a broken plate, pale and crueland lightning scratches oblivion’s face. Each step in this funeral processionis a shadow leading to a heart of silence. Old people watch like portraits in a vacuuma future they never thought would arrive. Butterflies of a forgotten…
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Thank you all so much for embracing our 5th Storm 🙏
Sharing just a few comments in the video below.
Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉
If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here…
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Sharing just a few comments in the video below.
Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉
If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here…
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Thank you all so much for embracing our 5th Storm 🙏
Sharing just a few comments in the video below.
Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉
If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here…
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
Sharing just a few comments in the video below.
Team @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Damien Donnelly have truly had the best time curating this issue. 🙏🎉
If you don’t have your Storm yet, buy your copy here…
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
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Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
This is what I'm working on next: fascism and the environment. Hoping to finish it before the world burns and/or the fascists take charge. Fingers crossed. Do ask me about it, if you're curious. www.thebookseller.com/rights/manch...
Manchester University Press signs Richard Smyth’s ‘vital’ book on fascism and the environment
Manchester University Press has acquired Richard Smyth’s Greenshirts, a new book that uncovers the "deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies and environmental thought" over the la...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
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I rewatched The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and find its hero the most relatable of all of Richard Matheson's protagonists, for I too would battle a spider many times my size if the prize was a lump of cake larger than myself.
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I rewatched The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and find its hero the most relatable of all of Richard Matheson's protagonists, for I too would battle a spider many times my size if the prize was a lump of cake larger than myself.
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Some of the replies here belong in the museum of hubris
Ancient philosophy is 50% profound eternal wisdom and 50% that same exact guy declaring with supreme confidence two paragraphs later that pee is stored in the armpit.
Aristotle in his books on nature insisted men have more teeth than women.
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Some of the replies here belong in the museum of hubris
Really pleased to be included in the @renardpress.com anthology, celebrating five years of the prese
#poetry
#poetry
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Really pleased to be included in the @renardpress.com anthology, celebrating five years of the prese
#poetry
#poetry
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Read all about the new issue here. Drops Nov 28th. Interviews, poems, poetry. Last subs day Sunday if you want a print copy on the day of release. #newissue #news #stars #coverreveal
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Rushdie, Holmes and Cabellut Illuminate the new Madrid Review
In the new issue of The Madrid Review, publishing on November 28th, readers will encounter one of the magazine’s most ambitious and wide-ranging editions yet: a celebration of international literature...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Read all about the new issue here. Drops Nov 28th. Interviews, poems, poetry. Last subs day Sunday if you want a print copy on the day of release. #newissue #news #stars #coverreveal
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Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
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Wrong on so many levels…
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Wrong on so many levels…
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Friend walked into a pub in Cork with a huge army greatcoat on, old lad at bar perked up and exclaimed: "COMRADE! WHAT NEWS FROM STALINGRAD!?"
Was in Doyle's once and a lad walked in wearing a black leather jacket, black t-shirt and *tight* black jeans. When he got to his table, one of his mates looked up at him and went "Look, it's Sandy from Grease."
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Friend walked into a pub in Cork with a huge army greatcoat on, old lad at bar perked up and exclaimed: "COMRADE! WHAT NEWS FROM STALINGRAD!?"
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Please performatively read my novel.
My latest novel My Life in Orbit is out now. richardblandford.blogspot.com/2024/03/my-l...
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Please performatively read my novel.
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Sidney Herbert Sime
‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911
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‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911
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November 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sidney Herbert Sime
‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911
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‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911
archive.org/details/gods...
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Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.
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Had a dream in which @minxmarple.bsky.social demanded to meet my parents, who, since being long dead, had to be "conjured" back to life, after which I sent a car to the cemetery to pick them up. When they finally met her, they assumed because of her accent that she was a member of the royal family.👑
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Had a dream in which @minxmarple.bsky.social demanded to meet my parents, who, since being long dead, had to be "conjured" back to life, after which I sent a car to the cemetery to pick them up. When they finally met her, they assumed because of her accent that she was a member of the royal family.👑
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"Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago." "Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter."
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago." "Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter."