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Eimear Ryan

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Lecturer in creative writing @ucc.ie | PhD student @unioflimerick.bsky.social | editor @bansheepress.bsky.social | 📚 Holding Her Breath (2021) & The Grass Ceiling (2023) 📚

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Catch us at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social in November! Author @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social and editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social talk girlhood remixed, and editor @eimearryan.bsky.social speaks on the future of publishing ✨️ dublinbookfestival.com/event/girlho... dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-fu...
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Girlhood Remixed - Dublin Book Festival
Join us at Dublin Book Festival 2026 for an event with poets looking at experiences of girlhood and womanhood
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's banal but the use of "inevitable" by the "research on research institute" is a performative of course It becomes inevitable because people close to centre of power keep saying it's inevitable.
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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Congratulations to my @ucc.ie colleague @eimearryan.bsky.social, editor @bansheepress.bsky.social, on the publication of Billy Ramsell’s new collection of poetry, Render. Masterfully launched by our other colleague, @adamhanna.bsky.social. Get it while you can: bansheepress.org/shop/p/rende...
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Thank you for buying The Long Gaze Back - this is the 2026 reprint, 11 (!) years after publication. Featuring @anakanaschofield.bsky.social, Maeve Brennan @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Mary Lavin @junec.bsky.social Norah Hoult @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @eimearryan.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Join us to celebrate the publication of FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut collection of poetry by Tim MacGabhann! We're launching in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 12 February and in No Alibis in Belfast on 19 February. All are welcome! bansheepress.org/read/join-us...
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Join us for the launches of Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann — Banshee Press
We hope you can join us in Dublin to celebrate the publication of the debut poetry collection from acclaimed author Tim MacGabhann, Found in a Context of Destruction . On Thursday 12 February…
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Starting the New Year in the company of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social’s compelling novel in verse ‘Filly’ from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🤩
Front cover of Filly by Rosamund Taylor, with pink lettering against a black & white replicated photograph of fingers gently pulling at the corner of a closed eye.
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Finally, a subscription to Banshee was recommended as a great Christmas present for literature lovers in @irishtimes.com 🎁 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... (3/3)
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Beyond books: Christmas gifts for the literature lover in your life
Sometimes the hardest thing to buy for a bookworm is a regular novel, biography or history book. Here's a selection of bookish gift ideas that go beyond the norm
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
@jackflag.bsky.social's cover for Claire-Lise Kieffer's Tenterhooks was also cited by Jack's fellow designers as one of the best covers of the year in @literaryhub.bsky.social 🫴 lithub.com/the-173-best... (2/3)
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The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025
Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Some lovely press this week – first up, @jackflag.bsky.social's cover for @bebeashley.bsky.social's Harbour Doubts was listed as a best book cover of 2025 by @nytimes.com 🧡 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b... (1/3)
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The Best Book Covers of 2025
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Now available for pre-order: FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut poetry collection by acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann, out in February 2026. Cover design by @jackflag.bsky.social 🪨 bansheepress.org/shop/p/found...
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
'There were no amulets for protection, just some books and a framed photo of my dad, a veteran of the operating theatre. This was my armoury, the layer between me and the medical team.' From issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018) – non-fiction by Elizabeth O'Neill ✨ bansheepress.org/read/excisio...
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‘Excision’ by Elizabeth O’Neill — Banshee Press
Try to praise Instead of counting the minutes until morning, I tried learning a poem, one I’d heard a few weeks before. There were no amulets for protection, just some books and a framed photo…
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...
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LAUNCH: Banshee | Issue 20 | Books Upstairs
Celebrate ten years of Banshee at the Dublin launch of our speculative fiction-themed 20th issue. Join us at Books Upstairs on Thursday 4 December at 6pm to raise a glass and to hear prose and poetry ...
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Paul ✍🏻 Dean @paullicino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?"

The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
UCC researchers receive €1.1m to address national and global societal challenges UCC has been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in @researchireland.ie's COALESCE 2025 programme. For more, see: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025... @uccresearch.bsky.social
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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with: 🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com 🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show 🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social
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Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
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Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writer’s block!
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
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Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Tonight - please join us to celebrate this brilliant book ✨️
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thinking of @sarahmaintains.bsky.social and the other Irish citizens who are part of the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social, and have been detained by the IDF who illegally intercepted them in international waters. Here is Sarah’s poem, ‘If I had any other thing’:
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The bees have discovered Brutalism
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City View Wheels @cityviewwheels.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Latest jewel in the crown of Marina Park; the Elevated Tree Walkway leading to Barrington’s folly, woodland walks and picnic areas. Access from the Cork Harbour Greenway beside the playground and slides. Spin out also onto the Marina Prominade and (shortly) the Atlantic Pond. #Cork
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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! ✨ bansheepress.org/read/celebra...
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Celebrate the launch of Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press
We hope you can join us to raise a glass to Filly , the beautiful new verse novel by acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor, in Books Upstairs on Wednesday 15 October! Banshee poetry editor Jessica…
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Our Secondhand Superstar David took Aoife Barry’s article (@sweetoblivion.bsky.social) & Sinéad Gleeson’s anthology (@SineadGleeson.bsky.social) & went searching through the shelves to find …
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it." From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕 bansheepress.org/read/the-two...
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‘The Two of Hearts’ by Niall McArdle — Banshee Press
The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck. ‘She has her heart in her throat,’ my mother always said. It…
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1777: Everything you experience informs your work. In summer, write about the heat; the vegetation; the scent of the sea. In winter, write about the cold; the darkening sky; the onset of snow. Use everything you feel: grief, anxiety, joy, love, pain. It's all good.
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Eimear Ryan @eimearryan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Looking forward to speaking at this event this evening! 💙💛 cashelartsfest.com/event/grassr...
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Grassroots to Glory: The GAA’s Living Legacy - Cashel Arts Festival
In Association with Durabeds From parish pride to All-Ireland glory, the GAA has shaped the cultural heartbeat of Ireland for over a century. This lively panel brings together sports journalist Stephe...
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Longreads @longreads.com · 09/09/2025
"The feed no longer surprises but sedates, and in that sedation, something quietly breaks, and social media no longer feels like a place to be; it is a surface to skim." @jamesosullivan.bsky.social for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...
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The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We have an exciting opportunity for a visiting fellow in Irish Studies at UL! Sponsored by the Irish American Cultural Institute, the O'Malley Fellowship will bring exceptional Irish Studies scholars currently affiliated with US universities to UL for a 12-week stay.
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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Delighted to be reading at Ó bhéal go béal in Cork next Monday. Poems from the new and newest books, featuring some Seán Ó'Ríordáin and some birds
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
'When a honeybee bumps against glass, and silences noise your room, when masonry settles and a knock at the door is harm ...' 'When You Unravel' by @eleanorhooker.bsky.social – poetry from issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019) 🧵 bansheepress.org/read/when-yo...
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‘When You Unravel’ by Eleanor Hooker — Banshee Press
When a honeybee bumps against glass, and silences noise your room, when masonry settles and a knock at the door is harm, when your fingertips bleed and you cannot let go, when your boat arrives…
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝 bansheepress.org/read/banshee...
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Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press
Banshee Press will be accepting book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps…
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin. #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I can't get over how many writers have chosen to dedicate so much of their time and energy into transphobia rather than writing? Or like if you're going to be an activist, there's a literal genocide. And if you claim to care so much about women being abused, there's a literal genocide.
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
'There is a halo of yellow far off, where green meets the zone of habitation. Boughs and branches move, leaves seethe and shiver. The night has its mouths.' From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- fiction by David Hayden 🌔 @seventydys.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/taints-...
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edelsemple.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Arrived into the office to find the best of parcels - book post! 📚 💙 “Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen” is now in paperback and priced to move! 😉 @ardenpublisher.bsky.social #Shakespeare #biofiction
A small pile of paperback books, titled Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary stage and screen. The book cover shows a scene from the film All Is True where Kenneth Branagh as Shakespeare contemplates the loss of his son, while papers rest on a desk in front of him.The book is edited by Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull and published by Arden.The first Contents page from the book Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary stage and screen, listing chapters 1-7. The book is edited by Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull and published by Arden.The first Contents page from the book Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary stage and screen, listing chapters 8-16 and the Afterword. The book is edited by Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull and published by Arden.
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Joe Brainard’s ‘I Remember’ (1970-1975) is a small book that is immense inside, not least because of the way it—generously, wittily, companionably—opens up the reader to their own worlds of memory and feeling. There’s no such thing as an everybody book, but this is one. @dauntbookspub.bsky.social.
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'A masterpiece.' Paul Auster
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
'The jewellery set arrives on your thirteenth birthday, the official transition from playing with dolls to planning what to name your children.' From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) – flash fiction by @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social 💎 bansheepress.org/read/baubles...
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‘Baubles’ by Anita Goveas — Banshee Press
The jewellery set arrives on your thirteenth birthday, the official transition from playing with dolls to planning what to name your children. Your nana is so traditional, Mother says laughingly, no…
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We hope you can join us for the launch of HARBOUR DOUBTS by @bebeashley.bsky.social‬ on Thursday 26 June at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast! It starts at 6pm with the excellent Dawn Watson introducing Bebe's reading. All are welcome! ✨ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...
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Seamus Heaney Centre
Join us for a celebration of Bebe Ashley's second poetry collection published by Banshee Press which explores sign language and longing.
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Listen to this brilliant interview with Mary Morrissy about #PenelopeUnbound and Bloomsday on The Bookshelf on ABC Australia: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Reading James Joyce's Ulysses for Bloomsday (and new fiction galore) - ABC listen
A guide to James Joyce from Irish writer Mary Morrissy, ahead of Bloomsday (16 June); New Zealand writer Becky Manawatu continues to explore howls of pain and compassion in her second novel, Kataraina...
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
'I have layered you onto the canvas, full magentas and yellows and pinks, then scraped you away – pared back to some essential silence.' From issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018), poetry by Jane Robinson: bansheepress.org/read/standin...
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‘Standing Nude’ by Jane Robinson — Banshee Press
I’ve carried you down into the hall and painted you again on a six-foot canvas, your right toe testing the waters of a pool in blues so dense they’ve hollowed a place on the linen threads, …
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
'There is nothing. It’s the body without being, and being without a body the nothing is limitless. Flesh turned to pixels, being is malleable.' From issue 18 (now sold out), 'New Game / Options / Quit', a personal essay by @clairiefairie.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/new-gam...
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‘New Game / Options / Quit’ by Claire Watson — Banshee Press
There is nothing. It’s the body without being, and being without a body the nothing is limitless. Flesh turned to pixels, being is malleable. You can begin by forgetting yourself. Discard the name, th...
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Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
delighted to share the cover for my collection After Party, published by Picador in September!
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Congratulations to @gphibbett.bsky.social‬ on their latest triumph: High Jump as Icarus Story has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection! We're so proud of the incredible impact that this book has made ✨ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...
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Seamus Heaney Centre
The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize, supported by Atlantic Philanthropies.
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Issue 19 (spring/summer 2025) is gone to print! View the contents and pre-order your copy at the link in bio 😎 bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
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Issue 19 | Spring/Summer 2025 — Banshee Press
128 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-17-6
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