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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This month, we are publishing the third Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology! 📚 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017519...

The Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology III held in front of a blue watercolour background. The cover is blue with the title written in large pink lettering.

Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

FEB 2nd 6.30pm ONLINE launch of two new pamphlets from Dialect Press: Rock, Paper, Scissors by Ella Duffy and Adam Horovitz & Sardines by Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme. Pre-orders live now on the Dialect website. Grab your seat via the link in bio www.dialect.org.uk/events

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

www.dialect.org.uk/blog/vasilik... where we talk about all things Sardines 🐟

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M‎ I‎ K‎ E‎ ‎ R‎ Y‎ A‎ N @bikecyan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Woohoo! Can't wait to get my hands on this. ❤️❤️

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Cover reveal: SARDINES A new collaborative pamphlet from me and @minorroarr.bsky.social 🐟 From @dialectwriters.bsky.social Some creative partnerships begin with a plan; others with a spark. Sardines began with something stranger & more serendipitous: a misremembered remembered Frank O'Hara poem.

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

An honour to be included in this beautiful anthology of poetry! Well done again @jaxxi.bsky.social

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Lucy Holme,

S̶e̶a̶ ̶L̶i̶o̶n̶ Woman Comes o̶n̶ ̶L̶a̶n̶d̶, Swims in Pool and Steals Man's C̶h̶a̶i̶r̶ Lane

Today a man watches me swim, waves—says, a couple of points,
if I may—so I cock my head to one side and lift my goggles.
He says I’m good but that my knees don’t lock, they bend instead.
My arms must slice the water just so; my ankles should be doing the work.
If I really want to be faster, I should make myself much lighter.
In the water, I am like the sea lion I saw on the YouTube short,
who climbs the steps to a hotel terrace, carved into a tiny cove,
conquers the rocky staircase at top speed, frazzled
from supine pirouettes, from chasing sardines all day long.
He flips into the pool and glides the length in one graceful arc,
soaking terracotta pots and tiles, supplants a tourist on his chair,
moving spectacles and papers and sun lotion bottles out of his way.
My new coach says I should crouch like a frog on the wall, leap
forward underwater until I reach the end of the red buoys.
He shakes his head, looks dismayed. I do not breathe correctly.
If I can’t learn the correct technique, I’ll sink like a stone.
I think of the joy of a swim when you long to clear your head,
of the sea lion’s perfect bulk, the weightless ache of a Puglian resort,
his strength as he ascends without using the steps. Just like him,
my freckled blubber gleams under strip lights and tattered flags,
steam blowing from my flaring nostrils as I swim, both eyes wide
open. I could be a predator too. Chase jellyfish tissues and rays,

tuck in my fore flippers and clap my thighs, heels up, toes down.
Even though my body is turned away, I sense the man coming
again to offer me some more of his expertise. But like the sea lion,
I know best how to manoeuvre my sizeable body in water.
My eyes glow red at night. With my third eyelid, I watch him
take notes on my performance, while I disrupt the surface calm.

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It is people like @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social who help get through this muddled place of doing a creative writing PhD. Thank you, Lucy. You made me feel a lot better 🩷

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The skirt still reminds me of the brilliant @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social’s gorgeous books 🩷

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

"At the end of the day, I come back to something Ellen Bryant Voigt once told me, that poetry is not the transcription of experience but the transformation of it." Carl Phillips

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Daragh @daraghfleming.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Incredibly excited to be launching my new collection of essays in Waterstones Cork on April 15th with @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social I’ve always dreamed of having a launch in my favourite bookshop and now it’s happening. Please mark the date and come along ❤️

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Breda Spaight @bredaspaight.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

For those in Cork, this sounds good! Some great writers here. Check it out.

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Join me for this workshop as part of brilliant new initiative The Poets Library from Kemi George Simpson starting this Saturday at Cork City Library. Link to sign up below ✍️ eventbrite.ie/e/the-poets-li…

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Well this is very exciting news.

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Grateful to be collaborating with one of my favourite poets & human beings @minorroarr.bsky.social on an exciting project from dynamic new press @dialectwriters.bsky.social Our pamphlet exploring place, language, travel & connection arrives in September✨ www.dialect.org.uk/blog/vasilik...

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So happy to be able to say I am now represented by Olivia Davies from @unitedagents.bsky.social for my writing 💙 www.unitedagents.co.uk/lucy-holme

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Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

absolutely loving @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social 's 'Blue Diagonals'- stunning writing taking me places both inner and outer with its beauty and insight- thank you 💙💫

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

€1,500 gets us to target. Shares are amazing, donations, for the DSPCA and @unicefireland.bsky.social's Gaza and Lebanon appeal, are amazing, if you can xxx www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

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Donate to The Rick O'Shea Book Club Xmas Appeal 2024, organized by Rick O'Shea

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Looking for recommendations for people’s ‘funniest’ poems. Not limericks or comedy verse but poems that contemplate doubt, grief, tragedy with humour thinking Natalie Shapero, Mark Waldron, Paul Muldoon etc thanks 🙏

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

an expendable character in the comedy of your life Scott McKendry, ‘All I Want’s My Goose Back’

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live — Nikki Giovanni 🖤🙏🏾

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I made a starter pack of some poets on Bluesky go.bsky.app/VsG51ms

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Love the place where a nonfiction essay collection meets memoir? Buy Lucy’s beautiful book 👇

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Maybe poems are just complications & yet you can't resist a little still life lit with grief & wonder. —Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

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Think of language as some romance with the unreliable, a rabbit hole down
the time-lapsed night inside of you. The muse comes or doesn't through the gods you keep
close: children, iPhone, birdsong, water.
Its not enough to stare off, practice
gratitude. More than once a poem has saved your life & so some sense of life debt haunts you. Maybe
the universe exists to be contained, continued in these forms & spirals. So what if you confuse
arrivals & departures; you keep your note & map apps open to remind you where you are—
here: midlife, midnight, suburbs;
Anthropocene replete with crisis forecasts
& color-coded calendars. Maybe poems are just complications & yet you can't resist
a little still life lit with grief & wonder.

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

An extract from ‘A Sprig of a Fruited Olive’ first published in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and part of Blue Diagonals, on the @rte culture page this morning 🔭💙 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Very happy to have two poems in this brilliant journal thanks to editors John McAuliffe, Paul Knowles and Joe Hunter

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Manchester Review is proud to launch Issue 26 today. 'This new edition is an eclectic goody-bag that showcases a wide range of genres, styles and perspectives and contains writing from well-established, upcoming, and first-time writers.' www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

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Issue 26 - The Manchester Review

Image: © Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester Editorial Prosper C. Ìféányí, ‘Death Robed in A Gown, So Beautiful, So Majestic’ Alasdair Cannon, ‘Pridesongs’ John Moessner, ‘To the Man Sleep...

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Was such a great last ACE memoir class of the semester today and my brilliant students gave me a thank you gift of ‘Tidings’ from @lilliputpress.bsky.social which I can’t wait to read. On request at the end I read ‘I have always valued a checklist above all other things’ from Blue Diagonals 💙

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Richard Siken @richard-siken.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The poet, like the onion, does not care who cries.

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If anybody would like to buy a copy of my new nonfiction collection Blue Diagonals directly from me please DM me and I can post it to you. Also if anyone would like to review it let me know 💙🔭 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A few things some writers I really admire had to say about my new nonfiction collection Blue Diagonals from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... @eimearryan.bsky.social @cristinleach.bsky.social

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Again, amazing new things in the post... Pankaj Mishra's upcoming and hugely anticipated The World After Gaza, Lucy Holme's newly published prose debut Blue Diagonals, and a gorgeous new Rough Trade edition of the text from Max Porter's short film All Of This Unreal Time...

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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

So happy and excited to have won the Southword Editor’s Award for Poetry this year. Thanks to the Munster Literature Centre 🙏

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Over 140 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, nonfiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2024. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

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Writing and Poetry Calls for Submissions – August 2014 — WORDBOX

Over 140 literary calls for submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - competitions, contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or w...

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Gorgeous morning talking to ACE UCC creative nonfiction students in Bishopstown Library, Cork about Negative Space and From Ten till Dusk. So many insightful comments and responses, and brilliant questions. Thank you course tutor extraordinaire @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social for snapping sneaky pic.

Cristín, a white woman with quite long blonde brown hair wearing a pink and black cardigan, holds up her two books, one in each hand, seated at a table in front of shelves of library books, with some papers in front of her and a jar containing papers with prompts for readings from Negative Space. Cristín is looking at the cover of From Ten till Dusk.

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Clíodhna Bhreatnach @cliodhnabhreatnach.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I’m delighted to be in truly excellent company on the shortlist for the Red Line Festival Poetry Award. To be considered alongside @martinadalton.bsky.social and @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social is a lovely encouragement!

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Janus Literary @janusliterary.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Our team has made its nominations for the 2024 Best of the Net. Congratulations to each of these talented writers/poets. @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @avramargariti.bsky.social @jaredpovanda.bsky.social @louisenorgate.bsky.social @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social @gretchenfilart.bsky.social

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Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

I’m slowly grabbing Irish writers and arts journalists by the jacket sleeves and pulling them over here. The brilliant @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social has flown in. And go follow newly arrived @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social too.

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