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Join our meet and greet session on Thursday October 30th to share your experiences as a writer with a disability, as we devise a range of targeted supports for disabled writers.

Please contact Declan Meade by Wednesday October 22nd

We’d love to hear from you.

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Please consider ordering some books today from the wonderful @booksupstairs.bsky.social to show your support.

Trumpet Issue 14, edited by Nandi Jola, is now available for pre-order purchase on our site!

It features poetry from Shelley Tracey, Mari Maxwell and Sello Humma, as well as beautiful artwork from Anfaal Al-Mughalles.

Pre-order at www.poetryireland.ie/publications...

Join us as our new Poet in Residence 2025-2027 🖌

We are looking for our third Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland as we move back home to No. 11 Parnell Square.

For more details on the role and how to apply visit tinyurl.com/3uasse6c

Supported by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

I'll be reading as part of The Shaking Bog festival with music by Ultan O'Brien. It's on Sunday, 12th October, 6pm, at Curtlestown Church in Wicklow. Please join us!

The loveliest thing to hear some of these poems out in the wild last week, a storm raging up outside.

@jesstraynor.bsky.social's NEW ARCANA @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, introduced beautifully by Seán Hewitt at the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social.

How lucky we are❤️

Full house @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week for launch of THE HARE'S CORNER @newislandbooks.bsky.social in partnerships w/@burrenbeotrust.bsky.social, with poetry by @janeclarke.bsky.social, prose Catherine Cleary & illustrations Jane Carkill.

We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨

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Last couple of days to submit!

​On this day in 1981, Taiwanese-American performance artist Tehching Hsieh began his third one-year performance piece. Also known as ‘Outdoor Piece’, Hsieh lived on the street in New York for an entire year. He was not allowed to go inside at all, including buildings, vehicles, tents or the subway.

Poetry Ireland is recruiting a new Director to lead the Poetry Ireland team.

Applications for this role are being managed by CCI Executive Search.

For further details visit www.charitycareersrecruitment.ie/vacancy/159

Publication Day - The Hare’s Corner! First sighting in my local bookshop Bridge Street Books Wicklow town.

Me being delighted with Martina Evan's gorgeous review of New Arcana in today's @irishtimes.com 🔮✨️

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Great thread from @sineadgleeson.bsky.social here. Amazing that this is really happening.

So great that The Benefactors is up for the best audiobook at the British Audio Awards. Loads and loads of people involved and thanks to each and every one of them.

It's Culture Night tonight! Well, Abridged has 20 years of material on www.abridged.zone to read for free! You don't even have to leave the house. For misanthrophists everywhere!

Join us.,

September news: New books from @poetclare.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social & @emiliejelinek.bsky.social; prize news for Matthew Caley, Kris Johnson & Niall Campbell; radio & podcasts for @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Greta Stoddart; Ruth Fainlight film premiere.
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We are supporting the @artscouncilireland.bsky.social in seeking increased funding of €200m to the Irish arts sector in #Budget2026.

Increased investment is needed in order to meet the funding and development needs of the arts sector.

Read more here: artscouncil.ie/news/budget-...

I found this beauty in my letter box. Delivery by stealth and kindness.

FILLY

Extraordinary work by Rosamund Taylor @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social and all @bansheepress.bsky.social ✨

I'm over the moon that Arthur Sze has been named our 25th U.S. Poet Laureate. Arthur was on the show for his new & collected The Glass Constellation and we looked back across his life as a poet in honor of it.
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Ten years ago this week, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers was published. ​It took a huge amount of research, but introduced me to many writers, and to the historical omission of Irish women from the literary canon. @newislandbooks.bsky.social
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