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Aoife Lyall

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Poet, editor, mentor, teacher. The Day Before (Bloodaxe Books) out 22nd February 2024

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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A wonderfully creative summer!
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
After a lot of thought - and practise! - I have decided to increase the print run of several of my pieces to 25, and have lowered the price to reflect this: bramblewoodstudioart.etsy.com Enjoy! #lino #linocut
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
'Curled beside me in your wheaten silk – asleep in whatever log or nest of leaves the night has conjured from our quilt ...' From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) – poetry by @aoifelyall.bsky.social 🐭 bansheepress.org/read/dormous...
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‘Dormouse’ by Aoife Lyall — Banshee Press
Curled beside me in your wheaten silk – asleep in whatever log or nest of leaves the night has conjured from our quilt – I savour knowing that the average healthy dormouse weighs all of 20g: how…
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Morning! After a couple years of working away in the world of lino, I've now launched my online print shop: bramblewoodstudioart.etsy.com If you could give it a heart, a share and/ or a follow I'd really appreciate it. Happy New Year! Aoife
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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
More reviews in our current issue 'Ownership' - magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/ @aoifelyall.bsky.social reviews @pimlottkathy.bsky.social's 'After the Rites and Sandwiches'; Camille Ralphs' 'After you were, I am'; and @dzifabenson.bsky.social's 'Monster'. magmapoetry.com/aoife-lyall-...
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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Editors @cloudscholar.bsky.social, Lola Oh and @williekinard.com are looking forward to receiving your submissions for Magma 94: REMIX More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub... Closing date: 31st July, 2025 Image: Williams Chechet
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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
As Artistic Director of Winchester Poetry Festival in letting you know our programme is now LIVE! 🧵 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We're looking forward to publishing this in the UK & Ireland on 21 May 2026.
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Me- on stage- this Friday! All info below- see you there!
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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Delighted to add my copy of Washing Windows V to my collection! Thanks to @booksupstairs.bsky.social 📚 Very honoured to have poems included in four of these very special anthologies 💫✨ Huge gratitude to @arlenhouse.bsky.social and @nualaoconnor.bsky.social 🙏🙏
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Ah Moniack, you beauty 😍
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! Come join our online launch of In the Flesh- hosted by myself & Victoria Kennefick- 7pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-issu... @magmapoetry.bsky.social
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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Feels extra special to publish this poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social so close to my grandad's first anniversary this Saturday 🤍 thanks to @aoifelyall.bsky.social & Victoria Kennefick x
Stay Quiet 

He’s so sick 
of the TV’s endless bellow, 
the stench of faeces and mashed potatoes,

but Grandad never complains  
even as his surgery gets postponed over and over, 
bruises on his arms like berry compote.

He knows not to stir, that one patient 
was murdered by another 
for weeping all night. 

My first Luas trip, a man, high 
or drunk, groped my grandfather’s skull, 
giggled at his grey curls, twirled them around

his knuckles before smoothing 
them flat as a field of maize. 
Grandad sat as if at a barbers and waited 

for the guy with a knife poking 
from his pocket to stagger away. 
All he had lost by then —  

his wife, seven border collies. 
I was shaking, nine years old, without a ticket. 
‘We’re invisible,’ Grandad whispered.
Photo of Molly with her grandad and two brothers
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Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My contributor's copy made it across the pond! I'm so excited to have a poem in issue 91 of @magmapoetry.bsky.social and share it with you here. There's some beautiful work in this issue and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.
A copy of issue 91 of Magma with the theme "In the Flesh." The cover art is a wooden doll in a white dress, superimposed onto a brown background.A photo of page 68, which presents the first half of a poem titled Consumption by Adam Gianforcaro. It reads:

Consumption

after Still Life with Game, Vegetables, Fruit, and a Cockatoo Adriaen van Utrecht, 1650

Eight years without meat. Which is not to say this body has gone eight years without death inside of it.
I have swallowed rot as rank as riverbeds, gnawed mold-pitted pride until it reached its dim-lit dwelling
of near-womb. I cursed the fertileness of healthy harvests, and once, in a dream, ate an entire human baby,
prompted by speculation that I was supposed to be born a twin. Believe me when I say I truly believed
my parents were hiding one half of me. Some hospital mishap, an uncoupled pairing. What other reason could there be
to feel so deeply this sense of loss, a relentless pull toward negative space? For a long time
I misinterpreted each form of absence as hunger. And yet there were three meals a day, fresh fruit. I sat my shadow-
self down for dinner, sang grace to god for his love of slaughtered hare. I slipped gravestones to my lips,
A photo of page 69, which presents the second half of a poem titled Consumption by Adam Gianforcaro. It reads:

digested new timelines. In one, I plucked cockatoo feathers with my canine teeth. In another, man-toothed men
took to my skin with butter and herbs. I came out of the oven warm and watchful. My shadow disappeared
It was noon or night and this carelessness caused a scene.
But soon the sun shifted and there were shadows again.
I licked their dark lengths to taste once more the sacrament of shame. Eight years
and I can still feel a coppery coating in my mouth, the rawhide undertones of a longing to be devoured.
I'm thirty-six now, my body at its heaviest. Somehow I thought this weight would bring me wisdom
but different cuts of sunlight can still stretch my twinself wishbone thin. Outside the window, my ghost
is across the pasture. Soon it will walk its way back to me. I will be full again, but not fully.
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Jessica Mookherjee @jessmookherjee.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
What a brilliant poem by Sarah Corbett in most recent @magmapoetry.bsky.social the whole edition is a very good read. Looking forward to Sarah’s next book.
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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Join us on Wed 16 April 7-8:30pm, for the online launch of Magma 91 'In the Flesh'. Editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social & Victoria Kennefick host a celebration of the exciting new issue, with readings from a stellar line-up of M91 contributors. Register your place here: bit.ly/M91launch
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
lol
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Rue Collinge @thewordtinker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Can’t believe I don’t have to stay quiet anymore - I’m winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 for my pamphlet ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, which will be published with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social soon! Breathless and buzzing! Congratulations to Oli Isaac for their poem and all those shortlisted.
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Meet Nate, as in caffiNate 😀
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Helen Sedgwick @helensedgwick.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Thrilled to have a poem published in this beauty! Huge thanks to @magmapoetry.bsky.social and editors extraordinaire @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick 💗
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Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) 🌈 @grizonne.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Lovely to have a poem about queer love and self-discovery accepted for the next issue of Ambient Receiver ❤️
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Kate Wakeling @katewakeling.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Here’s a new poem – the first of a set of seven exploring the ‘capital vices’ (among other things) – in the terrific new issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Congratulations to Wasafiri contributor Anthony V Capildeo on winning the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry this year! In celebration, we've made an interview between them and Palestinian writer Yousif M Qasmiyeh free access until 30 April: buff.ly/8sYBpuQ
Image of poet Anthony V Capildeo with congratulations text and Wasafiri logo
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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Delighted to have a poem included in @magmapoetry.bsky.social Issue 91 ✨Thank you so much to editors Victoria Kennefick and @aoifelyall.bsky.social 🤍🤍
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 24/03/2025
Fiona Larkin is the winner of the National Poetry Competition 2024 for ‘Absence has a grammar’. Fiona Larkin’s debut collection, Rope of Sand, was published by Pindrop Press in 2023. The title poem was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. Her pamphlets are Vital Capacity (...)
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Look look look!
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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I'm thrilled to be the poetry tutor for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social Advanced Writing Programme 2025-27, along with fiction tutor Rachel Seiffert & non-fiction tutor Will Atkins, applications are open!
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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Thank you so much the editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for selecting my work and including it in this beautiful issue.
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I'm limited edition people! Get to it!
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Helensburgh Book Festival @hburghbookfest.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It’s only 3 weeks until the festival kicks off! Have you got your tickets yet? www.eventbrite.com/cc/helensbur...
Book festival programme is now live
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
To celebrate @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social every copy of The Day Before ordered from aoifelyall.com will be posted with a FREE mystery poetry collection. Have at it @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
OUR ZOOM WORKSHOPS for spring are selling fast! @ruthpadel 's is full. Don't miss out on some of the most inspiring workshops around, many fresh from #VERVE2025! Go here to read more: tinyurl.com/yaryzy4w
Pictures of Ruth Padel , Aoife Lyall, Theresa Lola and Helen Calcutt on a bright coloured background.
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What can I say @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social ? Divine experience!
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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
One of my weekly things is choosing Poem of The Week for The Scotsman. Been doing it for the last 2+ years. A labour of love which motivates me to read loads of new poetry collections that come in to the Scottish Poetry Library. This week was a poem by Christopher Crawford. Love his new collection.
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Come along to this awesome workshop on Soundscape with yours truly, www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/... @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social
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SOUNDSCAPE IN POETRY | VERVEPoetryFestival
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hey @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social can I get a meet & greet at Birmingham New Street? My train gets in at 19:07
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
On my way and spreading the love @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Final shout out for my Soundscape workshop @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social this Sunday- and a glimpse at the books we'll be working from 😀 www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/...
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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In-person workshops at the festival will be repeated online creating a spring workshop series accessible for anyone, everywhere - there’s really no limit, unless you live on the moon!
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This Saturday I'll be with @magmapoetry.bsky.social at @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social talking about my role as Reviews Editor. Any questions? www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/...
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MAGMA MATTERS: Past, Present and Future | VERVEPoetryFestival
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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Pamphlet Hour kicks off Fri night at #VERVE25 7PM with Laurie Bolger, Troy Cabida, Betty Doyle & Ellora Sutton, hosted by Sabeen Chaudhry. Friday Night Headliners follows at 8:30 Dzifa Benson, Anthony Joseph & Richard Scott, hosted by Helen Bowell. www.vervepoetryfestival.com/post/friday-line-up
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Whether you're a Gal, Pal, or Valentine, ome join me for an amazing afternoon of soundscaping @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Sunday 16th Feb- all details and ticket info below: www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social
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SOUNDSCAPE IN POETRY | VERVEPoetryFestival
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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A little light for you this morning. Come join me @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Saturday 15th February for Magma Matters @magmapoetry.bsky.social and for my Soundscape workshop Sunday 16th February @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social //vimeo.com/groups/304960/videos/838234572
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Aoife Lyall: Torch, a film poem
Torch: a film poem written and read by Aoife Lyall, directed by Luke Morgan with music by Jake Morgan, produced with funding from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle…
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Mark Ward @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Painting licence secured for my @theemmapress.bsky.social pamphlet, Masters!
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a woman with red hair is standing in front of a blue background and says `` well , i got it . ''
ALT: a woman with red hair is standing in front of a blue background and says `` well , i got it . ''
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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We're so pleased to launching @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social at WaterstonesMCR with #NeilCampbell 6 Feb, discussing fab short story collections, #YourSonsAndYourDaughtersAreBeyond & #SayingDirtyThingsInRegionalAccents, exploring the everyday & the supernatural www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...
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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
LAST CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! www.vervepoetryfestival.com/volunteer
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