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Jerm Curtin

@jermcurtin.bsky.social
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Irish poet living in Spain Cacti & other poems munsterlit.ie/bookshop/cacti Patrick Kavanagh Award 2021 iambapoet.com/wave-fourteen

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My essay on literature and political commitment in the latest issue of @tribunemagazine.bsky.social
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The Meaning of Commitment
Universal literature is endangered in a world where modern notions of freedom and equality have lost their power. Its crisis mirrors that of the left.
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Israel's impunity is limitless. Not a peep from our governments, who support this and other outrageous acts of violence against Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
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Jailed Gaza hospital chief in life-threatening condition, rights group says
Elyas Abu Safia says his father Hussam can barely breathe or speak after more than 555 days in Israeli prison.
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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It’s interesting seeing some of the very obvious misinformation being peddled online and through social media re Belfast atm primarily by US / UK bad faith actors: (1) Race riots and pogroms in NI are about keeping ‘Ireland for the Irish’. The rioters are from (British) Loyalist backgrounds.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Look at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe | Lea Ypi www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe | Lea Ypi
The slogan ‘Albania is not for sale’ reveals a nation that respects itself, and will not sell its soul for investment, says author and academic Lea Ypi
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Cantaba, todavía canta ... elpais.com/america-colo...
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Totó La Momposina: adiós a la reina de la cumbia
De la leyenda de la música colombiana nos acordaremos todos cuando su voz suene y un tambor se toque en algún ricón del país y fuera de él. Que descanse en paz
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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
1) Pedro Sánchez is now clearly the preeminent figure of the international, anti-Trumpian centre-left, along with Lula a rare bridge between both pragmatic/radical lefts and the global north/south. He is a generational political talent.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sadly Dolores Keane has passed away. DEP. Few Irish songs as moving as her version of May Morning Dew. youtu.be/KStR6MmcBBU?...
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Dolores Keane - May Morning Dew
YouTube video by Don Dan Music Channel
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025... Fintan O'Toole on Martin Parr
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Remembering Martin Parr: A lovely, warm, gentle man who dragged me out of bed at 5.30am
British photographer always persevered in his belief that there is humanity in humour and humour in humanity
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Isaías Garde @isaiasgarde.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Hugo Padeletti - Danza del derviche buff.ly/oKPIdo5 El salto de la rana entre los yuyos de la zanja, el sol de la mañana sobre los granos de la espiga, la sombra del hinojo sobre las grietas de la tapia,
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Hugo Padeletti - Danza del derviche
Recortes literarios - Una antología - Poesía - Narrativa - Ensayo - Artes
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Ireland through the eyes of the wonderful Martin Parr, who very sadly has passed away.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
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Ban the hunting of foxes with packs of dogs on horseback in Ireland
Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The revelation of their plan this week shocked European leaders, who are now paying almost all of the military costs of the war, as well as the Ukrainians, who were not sure whether to take this latest plan seriously until they were told to agree to it by Thanksgiving or lose all further US support.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 21/11/2025
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.” Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
International Criminal Court judge, "sanctioned" by the USA for doing his job, blocked from using internet services worldwide, credit cards, banking... And nobody cares...
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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The word "peace" shouldn't be used for that sham. Peace is a positive word but this has nothing to do with real peace. The plan is about Ukraine's submission and an opportunity for Russia to continue the war on its own terms, and then continue it against the rest of Europe. No peace.
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Holley Atkinson @holleya.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Find her here substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Sarah Kendzior • 4m
I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation.
It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going.
It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Lovely article by John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social Humanity has achieved something truly incredible and almost utopian in New York: millions of very different types of people living peaceably—and sometimes even amicably—side by side open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...
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Thoughts on a Victory
From Gaza to New York
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Vai em paz, Lô Borges youtu.be/l8ETbYy83Vc?...
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Um Girassol Da Cor Do Seu Cabelo
YouTube video by Lô Borges - Topic
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Such a moving article by Anne Enright, mourning her mother and clearing out her house. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home
Would saying goodbye to every last newspaper clipping, button and book her parents had saved over decades help her mourn?
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Dear RoI folks. Please, go vote today. Do it for us, who aren't allowed to, despite birth in the island and a passport just like yours.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A comment from Spain, where fascism is deeply entrenched: I suppose everyone in Ireland realises that these two events are two sides of the same thing #aras #dublinriots (Steen as Burke from waterfordwhispersnews)
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Wonderfully entertaining portrait of Patrick Modiano as a young songwriter harpers.org/archive/2017...
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The Notes of Patrick Modiano, by Peter De Jonge
A young writer finds his voice on the radio
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Miguel Porto @miguelporto.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
DEP Hermeto Pascoal. youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...
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Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)
YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal
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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🚨The European Commission want to roll back vital environmental protections under the Trojan Horse of “simplification” We have just 10 days to tell them #HandsOFFNature Their “Red Tape” is our nature, our home, our right! 📢 Speak up now using our tool environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI. He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'. But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.
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ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads
By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…
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Bulldog punk. @bulldog75.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Lo que está pasando ahora ya lo vivimos en Galicia antes, el resultado, 17 años de gobiernos del PP.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I read these two poems on this @madridlitmag.bsky.social podcast where Ellen Merryweather asks me about my chapbook Cacti & other poems @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/madr...
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Que le denieguen un trámite a un trabajador porque no sabe leer ni escribir es clasismo repugnante y miserable. Y sí, tener la nacionalidad del país donde uno vive no debería ser más que un trámite. noticiastrabajo.huffingtonpost.es/sociedad/un-...
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Un marroquí con 3 hijos, trabajo y que lleva más de 20 años en España pierde la nacionalidad porque “no sabe leer ni escribir el español y sí el árabe”
El interesado no ha acreditado el suficiente grado de integración para la concesión de nacionalidad, a pesar de demostrar arraigo laboral y familiar.
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Our latest podcast is up now on Spotify. Ellie is chatting with Irish poet @jermcurtin.bsky.social who also reads from his work. #spotify #poetryreading #poetry #podcast #poetrypodcast open.spotify.com/episode/6te4...
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Narrative Poetry, with Jerm Curtin
The Madrid Review · Episode
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We've lost the ability to articulate a structural critique of capitalism. We've stopped talking about the material roots of injustice, about inequalities that are produced not by cultural difference but by position in social relations of production @leaypi.bsky.social voxeurop.eu/en/lea-ypi-m...
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Lea Ypi on the left’s ‘dangerous illusion that getting tough on migration can win back support’ - Voxeurop
In this conversation scholar Lea Ypi reflects on how progressives can and must address issues related to citizenship, rights, class, culture and solidarity in the context of migration and inequality.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Spanish ultra-Catholic press suggesting it might be time for a military coup in Spain. bsky.app/profile/econ...
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
theconversation.com/no-country-f...
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No country for old poets? Barry Hill’s Lamb is a work of vitality and rejuvenation
Barry Hill’s new poetry collecion Lamb blends insightful, impatient and powerful commentary with grandfatherly reflections on birth and love.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
An interview from @robmclennan.bsky.social's blog. I give some background to my chapbook Cacti & other poems, published by Southword editions @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/robm... Grateful to Rob for this.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jerm Curtin / @jermcurtin.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/12-o...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jerm Curtin
Jerm Curtin grew up in rural Ireland and has lived in Spain for many years. His chapbook, Cacti & other poems , was published in December 2...
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Protecting sprat means saving a whole ecosystem, from whales and dolphins to local businesses bsky.app/profile/save... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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‘Nothing left’: Irish whale-watching company closes amid ‘overfishing’
Sprat fishing has disrupted the food chain and diverted humpback, minke and fin whales as well as dolphins
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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Goodbye to him. From ‘The Hay-Carrier’: “Have you ever saved hay in Mayo in the rain? Have you ever made hay in Mayo in the sun? Have you ever carried above your head a haycock on a pitchfork? . . . For the great gate of night stands painted red— And all of heaven lies waiting to be fed.”
Paul Durcan
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Duncan's work is so vast and so important everyone will have their own favourite. This is mine.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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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Yolanda Díaz @yolandadiaz.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
O Día das Letras Galegas de 2025 é unha fermosa homenaxe ao canto e a lírica popular. Este ano adícase ás mulleres cantareiras, recoñécese a quen mantivo a tradición desde as lareiras da cociña e o traballo no campo. A poesía oral crece pola revolución das invisibles. Por máis cantareiras! 🩵
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Two lovely books by @roguestrands.bsky.social English, living and working post-Brexit in Spain, Matthew distils the complexity of his situation in spare, deeply-felt, attractive poems. Well worth reading.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Shame, shame, *shame* on you, voting to kill Mac Tire (Son of the Land): the wolf, @fiannafailparty.bsky.social and @finegael.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/wolves-vote-...
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Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael MEPs vote to allow wolf culling and hunting in Europe
The European Parliament voted to weaken wolves’ protected status.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Cats and flowers.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Wrote about how Musk's illegal shuttering of USAID is likely to cause 25 million deaths over 15 years. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...
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Elon Musk is committing a genocide
The worst is not really covered as the worst.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Pogues, Fontaines DC, @lankumdublin.bsky.social, Christy Moore, Damien Dempsey and Thin Lizzy, have defended @kneecapceol.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
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Kneecap videos to be investigated by UK’s counter-terrorism police
Pogues, Fontaines DC and Lankum among Irish artists defending Kneecap against ‘political repression’
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J-Qweln 🦇 🇨🇦🇨🇴 @jacquelinevalencia.ca · 29/04/2025
Today's commute read is this lovely collection by @jermcurtin.bsky.social, Cacti & other poems. Find more of his work here: www.iambapoet.com/wave/14-jerm... (He happens to be my brother-in-law's brother, and these poems give me a sense of being in places I dream of)
Cacti & other poems in my hand.
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thirteen ways of looking at Tsvetaeva I came across these wonderful versions in an old Poetry Review (Autumn 1993) published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tsvetaeva's birth. @poetrysociety.bsky.social Wendy Cope
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trump cannot be allowed to hold the hidden levers of Europe’s internal political debate. Europeans must have the freedom to communicate with one another without foreign censorship and interference. This crisis is at least as urgent as rearmament. Johnny Ryan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan
Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use it says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan
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