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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'A Song for the North': poem for our Ciaran by daughter Eithne.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nice to meet old pal Seanie Doran at launch of Ciaran's X+Y = K today.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spotted on lamppost outside Seamus Heaney Centre.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Belfast night on the bouncer's arms tattooed snakes writhe talk in Irish of which spuds are best the flags of Sandy Row Botanic Avenue the swish of taxis in the rainy night

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the Dublin to Belfast train, reading truly beautiful haiku by Thomas Powell.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Léiriú haiku amuigh faoin aer i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla agus rannpháirtíocht an phobail ann. Join us for a haiku reading in Irish and English with Liam Carson – featuring a gingko, or haiku walk, in which the audience will be invited to compose their own haiku.

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Trí Mhionlíne / Three Little Lines - Dublin Book Festival

Join a bilingual Irish and English haiku walking tour with Liam Carson

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TOMORROW! A gala bi-lingual poetry reading in Irish and English with Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha. BAIRD IMRAM AR CHAMPAS: Béal Feirste/Belfast 📅 Déardaoin, 24 Meán Fómhair 2026 🕠 5.30pm 📲 Booking: seamusheaneycentre.com/Events/

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My favourite spot on earth when I was ten years old. The book Mecca that was Harry Hall's in Belfast's Smithfield Market.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nice to meet up with John O'Donnell and swap books at Bere Island Arts Festival.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

gone in a puff shreds of tobacco blown in the autumn wind something hides in the bushes the cat's eyes do not blink through the open window shouts from a football match Indian summer night

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tá Eithne s'againne sa phríomh-ról sa dráma seo! Our daughter Eithne is the lead role in this play!

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tá clár na feile litríochta IMRAM 2026 beo anois! Le feiceáil ag an nasc thíos. The IMRAM Irish-Language Literature Festival progamme for 2026 is live now - see link below. imram.ie/clar-imram-2...

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Clár IMRAM-2026 | IMRAM

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bookshops in Belfast, all gone now. They were the heart of the city for me - I could spend the entire day wandering from one to the other. Chess books in Marshall's; Marvel comics and SF books in Harry Hall's; poetry zines and anarchist tracts in Just Books, listening to records in their café.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My old poet pal John Hughes just posted this, from Donna Stonecipher's great collection The Ruins of Nostalgia. It reminded me of how Starbucks took over a lot of independent cafés in Dublin, or put them out of business. I alway laugh at the notion that capitalism gives you choice.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a woman’s voice turns into birdsong music of a summer night woman talks of gathering wool then weaves her song singer’s lament how bears and wolves once walked the land night in Wales high in the mountains where horses once ran wild

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

wild ponies at the standing stone a white butterfly the sun burns a fly walks up a wild pony’s nose high above the sheep-speckled hill raven flies to the sea

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Leabhair nua. Latest book booty.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Salvador Allende on this day in 1973. Never forget. Hasta la victoria siempre.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

autumn breeze on the sea rocks a cormorant dries its wings

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Haiku by Bashō, translation by Robert Hass.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As an experiment my designer friend Margaret Lonergan asked AI to do up image for job she did for IMRAM. Her version is on the left, AI on the right. See the difference?

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

***SNOD 26*** Siompóisiam Náisiúnta Oidhreachta agus Dúchais i gcuimhne ar Phádraig Ó Snodaigh (1935-2025) 📍UCD Village Auditorium, UCD Belfield, 📅Dé Sathairn, 10 Deireadh Fómhair, 1300- 2100

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

a few years ago I wrote about what it means to count up deaths, when we do and when we don't, and what it's like to live in a culture where the power to let die is a fetish still feels relevant bewilderment.ohbara.com/2023/08/27/b...

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bare life and bare, bare death – you are here

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A haiku reading in Irish and English with Liam Carson, author of Belfast Twilight (Salmon Poetry) – featuring a gingko in which the audience will be invited to compose haiku. Beidh ginko ann, agus iarrfar ar an lucht féachana a gcuid haiku féin a chumadh. dublinbookfestival.com/event/tri-mh...

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Trí Mhionlíne / Three Little Lines - Dublin Book Festival

Join a bilingual Irish and English haiku walking tour with Liam Carson

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Haiku by Sanki Saitō, translated by Masaya Saito.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m beginning to think waking up and immediately reading the most insane things anyone has ever read is not exactly great for me

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Haiku by Ria Collins. From her delicately beautiful collection shaping darkness.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BAIRD IMRAM AR CHAMPAS Thursday 24 September Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast Gala bi-lingual poetry reading in Irish and English with Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha. All welcome. Free admission, booking at www.seamusheaneycentre.com/Events/BAIRD...

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Beidh clár na féile IMRAM fógraithe ar ball.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cover reveal - or, rather, three cover reveals - ahead of the publication of 'Have You Always Been Here?', a series of three new pamphlets by Matthew Clegg. You can pre-order 'Have You Always Been Here?' - and read a poem from the first pamphlet - here: longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/

The cover of 'Eyes Front' by Matthew Clegg. Watercolour (of a heron) and collage.

The cover of 'Crystals & Dust' by Matthew Clegg. Watercolour (of a heron).

The cover of 'The Living' by Matthew Clegg. Watercolour (of a heron) and collage.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

bee crawls on a withered flower September song

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Excerpt from poem/renga 'September' by Matthew Welton.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

At Salmon Bookshop and Literary Centre today.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today's poetry book booty from Salmon Bookshop and Banner Bookshop in Ennistimon, County Clare.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Haiku by Clare McCotter, from her magical collection Vigil.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fantastic series of monoku by Clare McCotter, from her collection Vigils. Delighted to get this in the Salmon Bookshop in Ennistimon, Co Clare.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

buddha sits in the pouring rain orange roses blossom

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

dying flies in a sunflower's heart their shadows quiver

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In Doolin, a local making their politics known.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cognitive dissonance is posting again and again about the evils of data centres, whilst simultaneously posting umpteen images which you've used AI to create.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This film is an imagistic exploration of the life and work of Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, written by poet Andrew Fitzsimons. A wonderful exploration of loss and impermanence; family and home; and darkness and beauty. If it comes to a cinema or arts festival near you, don't miss it

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