John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026It's good to see Martin Mooney is publishing poems again after many years. I have to say I agree wholeheartedly with him - everything is not going to be alright. 020 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026As he battles to clear his wife's legal bills, Jamie Vardy denies he's too old for the Championship as he makes first Burnley start. 120 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026New York 1990. At that time I lived in Brooklyn and often walked over the bridge to Manhattan. Hart Crane did occasionally cross my mind. 040 4
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Just arrived from Kenny's Bookshop. I've heard good things about this book. 030 3
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Sean O'Riordán. I can't think of a better definition. 0163 16
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. John Ashbery 2144 14
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Donegal Cross Country Championships, Mullaghderg. 140 4
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Anne Carson: "You could whisper down a well. You could write a letter and keep it in a drawer. You could inscribe a curse on a ribbon of lead and bury it in the ground to lie unread for thousands of years. The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself." 072 7
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In Universal Books Letterkenny today. Great bookshop. 140 4
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anne Carson wins. I should've headed down to the bookies! 050 5
Reposted by John HughesLiam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Poem by Friederike Mayröcker, translated by Donna Stonecipher. 041 4
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Pancho was a bandit boys His horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico And nobody heard his dying words Ah, but that's the way it goesyoutu.beTownes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty. Heartworn HighwaysYouTube video by The Record Selector 010 1
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026anwilson.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ar...anwilson.substack.comJeffrey ArcherFraudulence on a criminal scale 120 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A large Canadian Coast Guard buoy has washed ashore on Achill Island. 071 7
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I just can't get my head around Andrew Motion's book making it onto the T.S.Eliot shortlist. I really can't. 120 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026World records. Olympic dreams. A career almost erased from the history books. Derek Graham was one of Ireland’s great distance runners — but how many people have heard of him? 030 3
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026RIP Colin Keegan who took this absolutely brilliant photo of Willie O'Dea. 0328 32
Reposted by John HughesBrían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026never not at it (🍊 march, 1849) "epicures to choose [that route]" 131 3
Reposted by John HughesChris Frantz @chrisfrantz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.youtube.comTalking Heads - Life During Wartime (Live on Old Grey Whistle Test, 1979)YouTube video by Talking Heads 1940456 404
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 Extra - Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle, Episode 1Ivor Cutler and friends present poems and songs, including 'I Am a Yellow Fly'. 020 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ben Groner III from his collection 'Dust Storms May Exist'. 120 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On Facebook Belfast Archive Project posted photos of the Garvaghy Road from 1997. Very powerful images. Here are a few. 051 5
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mick Jagger is 83, Mitch McConnell is 84. The Benefits of a life of Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll cannot be ignored. Though I'd like to point out I'm too young for all the benefits to be visible. 020 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This poem from 1996 has been in my mind recently. 020 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Jocky not Jackie. Top of the Pops when they were introduced by David ‘Kid’ Jensen on September 30 1982. youtu.be/EwcBkRUifmY?...youtu.beDexys Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said (TOTP's 15th Anniversary of Radio 1, September 1982)YouTube video by The Life Of Archived Videos 030 3
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026First time listening to him. Must seek out his work. 310 3
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I really like this poem by Michael Grieve in the latest issue of the excellent Little Review. 172 7
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If young lads insist on calling this 64 year old man 'bro' I reserve the right to call them son. 020 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Like every British PM before him Andy Burnham is a Unionist, which is fair enough. But Michael Martin needs to be as upfront in expressing his desire for a United Ireland. 030 3
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lunch with Frank Ormsby is always such a pleasure. 010 1
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Re-visiting the haunts of my youth: The Rotterdam and Pat's Bar. Kind of sad to be honest. 120 2
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hopefully he didn't miss the stuff about those who use parades and rallies to create fear and undermine democratic institutions. 020 2
