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Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Looking forward to reading in Waterford this Saturday 29th in fine company.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Book 14 of the #SealeyChallenge is actually a journal because this appeared in the post. Excited to read @carolinebracken.bsky.social prize winning pamphlet now from the sample in this

The cover of The North poetry journal issue 71. A bride and groom approach each other on tightrope

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Mark Ward @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Irish Poets, the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition is open now. Free to enter, with cash prizes, it's judged by Aifric Mac Aodha. Closing date for entries is 8th September! redlinefestival.ie/events/red-l...

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Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition | Red Line Book FestivalRed Line Book Festival 2024 | Monday October 14th to Sunday October 20th

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Lauren O’Donovan @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Honoured and delighted to be the featured reader at Lime Square Poets on June 12th! This event is online and completely free 💚 www.limesquarepoets.com/event-detail...

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Lauren O'Donovan & Open Mic | Lime Square Poets

Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Lauren O'Donovan followed by Open Mic!

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Siobhán Flynn @siobhanflynn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Delighted to share this poem which has been published in the wonderful Ghost Furniture Catalogue. Thanks to @billherbert for giving my work a home.

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 17/05/2025

We’re sad to hear news of the death of Irish poet Paul Durcan, aged 80 - an extraordinary storyteller. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Acclaimed poet Paul Durcan dies aged 80

Poet who more than 20 books was awarded the Lifetime Achievement at the Irish Book Awards in 2014

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My thoughts on two new Dante books from the Princeton University Press: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2871 with thanks to David Cooke and The High Window.

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Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Thank you Annemarie Ní Churreáin editor @stingingfly.bsky.social for including 2 of my new poems in Summer 2025 Issue - there's a wealth of fine poetry & fiction to be discovered here as ever. Launch Sat 17th May 8pm Merrion Square @ilfdublin.bsky.social

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 14/05/2025

🎤 Join us at 5pm on Friday 6 June to hear from the rising stars of the poetry world! Find out more and reserve your space (quick, our open mic slots disappear pretty quickly!) at bit.ly/JuneTakeover.

Free virtual open mic for poets aged 14-25!

Friday 6 June, 5pm-6:30pm UK time

Open to young poets worldwide

Come along to hear headline slots from YPN challenge winners - plus an exclusive Q&A!

Young Poets Takeover

Book your space at bit.ly/JuneTakeover

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Irish writers please share this amazing opportunity ✍️ Workshoppin' ✍️ Exploring new ways of writing ✍️Learning how to sculpt your work and edit ✍️ Having a geg at the #JHISS! ✍️ Networking with fellow writers and literary peeps! APPLY APPLY APPLY! 👇 johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri…

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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Galway!! Book launch, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for *Menagerie* & *Washing Windows V* both from Arlen House. All welcome!

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

‘We need to believe that we can still change things for the better, that there is a point to trying – that there is a point to coming together as communities, to writing poetry. That our writing can express not just problems, but solutions.’ So much love for this piece by @janeburn.bsky.social ❤️

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If We Relearn to Love the Ground

Hybrid piece by Jane Burn

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Dale Booton @dalebooton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Thrilled to have received my contributor copy of this glorious anthology. The Aftershock Review is an incredible anthology on the after-events of trauma, created by the wonderful @maxwallis.bsky.social So proud to have 3 poems in it! You can purchase it here: www.aftershockreview.com

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Fiona Larkin @fionalarkin.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Good weekend for a walk? From my recent debut collection Rope of Sand, first published in @thespectator1828.bsky.social

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Out now: the two amazing winning pamphlets from our 2024 Book & Pamphlet Competition! Order from our website: buff.ly/3EBhU9q Also, keep an ear out for readings from Jen Feroze and Caroline Bracken on our Poetry Bites podcast: buff.ly/42TZdrG @jenferoze.bsky.social @carolinebracken.bsky.social

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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Tom French's poem The End of January was @irishtimes.com Poem of the Week recently. Tom will be at WCLF for a special @thegallerypress.bsky.social event with Vona Groarke & Aifric Mac Aodha on 13 July 🎟️https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/gallery-goes-to-wclf/ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Poem of the Week: The End of January

A new work by Tom French

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Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Had a wonderful time in Wordsworth Trust Grasmere at the launch of 'Boy, Mother' @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

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Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Absolute pleasure to judge the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2023/24. Here's the three stories on the shortlist: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

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Prize — Galley Beggar Press

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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Ta-dah! Cover reveal for SEABORNE, my Anne Bonny novel out 19th April with #newislandbooks. Pre-orders open soon! Design by Karen Vaughan. I love it 💙

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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Writing poetry is about discovery. I start with an idea and I think I’m pulling the poem by a leash, but the poem is actually pulling me.

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Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

"I have a habit I picked up someplace along the way, whatever works for me, not to give that away so easily y'know" Bob Dylan

Photo of the green and red lighthouses on Dun Laoghaire piers lreland

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Happy New Year! Over 170 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, nonfiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries, etc. - open or with deadlines in January 2024. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Light grey graphic with ice blue snowflakes falling from too edge. Text reads 'Publishing Your Work | Poetry & Writings Calls for Submissions January 2024: Competitions, Literary Jornals, Residencies, Bursaries. www.thisiswordbox.com

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Grateful to December Magazine for featuring one of the dream poems and accompanying erasure from a current manuscript.

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SHE DREAMT OF A CITY OF WOMEN

A man with good humor was at the center of a company of sol- diers tasked to protect the city of men. He could down a bottle of the finest bourbon in three swallows and still hit a bullseye with his bow. At home in the service, he became the leader among the men, their champion, their spokesman. On a fair day with a fair wind, his regiment came upon a crying woman near the border, distressed and in disarray. The rank and file sneered and elbowed one another, thinking only how to use her. But, having some scruples left, the leader would not allow it. Instead he bid them stay back as he approached her. He knelt and asked what she was doing there. Checking a rising sob, she pointed to a twisted mass of wood on the roadside. Upon closer inspection, the man saw a pretty little chest of drawers, paint- ed with colorful flowers and fixed with brass knobs, crushed to splinters by some unseen force. He had never seen such a delicate thing, and for

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home a border a pretty little deception

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Katrina Kortright @katrinakortright.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

"Little Prayer" Danez Smith #poetry

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Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Of all the bird site replacements I’ve feverishly joined and then eventually drifted away from, in hindsight the one I probably enjoyed the most was Mastodon for its #VerseThursday tag. Every Thursday, post a poem you like. That’s it – a simple joy. So here’s ’Kingfisher Haibun’ by Dylan Brennan.

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‘Kingfisher Haibun’ by Dylan Brennan | Structo

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

📢 END OF MONTH SUBMISSIONS ALERT!! 📢 28 literary journals, competitions and opps closing by 1 Jan incl. Channel Magazine, Granta, Poetry Now Review. The Moth Poetry Prize, Ropes, Fawn Press & more. Don't miss out! wp.me/p4bX9D-21a

Text on pale grey background with graphic of string of Christmas tree lights along top edge. Text reads: Publishing Your Work: Poetry & Writing Calls for Submissions December 2023 - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com

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Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

On Thursday 16th November at Books Upstairs, I'll be chatting to Diarmuid Hester about his book Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories. booksupstairs.ie/all-events/n...

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Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories - Books Upstairs

Dublin's oldest independent bookshop

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Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter... still tickets available for @winterpapers.bsky.social launch on 11 November

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Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Many thanks to the judges for selecting my poem 'History Baked in a Hot Oven' as the winner of the Kinship competition. Details of anthology below.

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