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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An honour to be included in this year's "Menu of Poems", given out in hospitals and healthcare settings around Ireland today for Poetry Day. Thanks to Anne Tannam for including me!

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Reading in Belfast, Maine, with Audrey Gidman. Organised by the Belfast Poetry Festival and generously hosted by @leftbankbookshop.bsky.social. This Wednesday at 7pm!

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Happy to have new poetry forthcoming in "The Stinging Fly". Check out this beautiful cover with artwork by Diarmuid Breen, and design by Eimear Gavin. @stingingfly.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The first of my readings in Maine went well yesterday! Pleasure to read with Maine laureates Julia Bouwsma and Audrey Gidman. Thanks to Maine Irish Heritage Centre for inviting and hosting. We read a poem by Seamus Heaney for his birthday. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I gave the annual Gerson Reading at @uconn.bsky.social last night. Thank you to the Dept of English for inviting me, especially Dr. Mary Burke, and to Dr. Seán Forbes for welcoming me to campus.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Happy to announce I've joined the team at Strokestown International Poetry Festival! Get your entries in for the competition, judged by the mighty @rachaelhegarty.bsky.social. The prize is €1,000 and the closing date is 6th Feb! More details on website. strokestownpoetryfest.ie/meet-the-team/

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Meet the Team - Strokestown International Poetry Festival

A page about Meet the Team by Strokestown International Poetry Festival

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I was in Co. Clare last weekend for the mighty Doolin Writers' Weekend. Thanks to the organisers for giving me a reading. Rinne mé ceardlann gaeilge freisin. Bhí an-craic againn!

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Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Morning! After a couple years of working away in the world of lino, I've now launched my online print shop: bramblewoodstudioart.etsy.com If you could give it a heart, a share and/ or a follow I'd really appreciate it. Happy New Year! Aoife

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 31/12/2025

As we countdown to 2026, a look back to some of the poetic gems of 2025 💎💙 eatthestorms.com/2025/12/31/a...

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A Year of Perfect Poetry

A look back at the poetry that kept us company in 2025

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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 18 is 'Pitch for Thicker than Water' from 'Blood Atlas' by @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social 🌹 @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Cover of Blood Atlas is a large brown ship coming out of the ocean. The cover is cream.

PITCH FOR THICKER THAN WATER

I have this idea for a screenplay: one day, the UN severs all familial ties on Earth, and people are free to choose relatives. Our hero, estranged from his son, endeavours to re-apply for the role of dad. But then, he hears news that his son has already filed for a new dad a teacher, sports coach, a friend's dad - and this breaks his heart. A plot twist occurs midway through our family feature when he considers where his own father is; the old fart is in a nursing home somewhere, staring at a dirty wall. So, our protagonist enrols as a janitor at this facility-a montage shows him cleaning shit along a narrow hall until he starts to steal moments of confused tranquillity in the old man's room, joining him to study a wall stain shaped like Dún Laoghaire's pier, where, one morning, the old man forced a 99 on them to numb a silent pain. The film ends as the son from the start, without warning, turns up with ice cream ... but real life isn't that breezy, I know. I just like that this dumb little script could allow three troubled men to admit they could have gone easy on each other, without knowing when, or knowing how.

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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 12 is 'My Grandmother's Kitchen' from 'Watching for the Hawk' by @bredaspaight.bsky.social 💖 @arlenhouse.bsky.social

Cover of Spaight's book is a painting featuring blues, reds and black, there are flickers of white in the blue

MY GRANDMOTHER'S KITCHEN:

Sketch at 8

Wooden as a string puppet, my grandfather lies in the white ruffles and lace of the coffin. My mother touches his face as though she decodes the parchment-like skin of his unselfing. A croak like the original tremor of language rises from the women dressed in black who beetle through the room. Other voices merge, an almost sweet sound like a hive's hum; a storm brewing - only to falter as each woman surrenders and keens from her own sorrow. I'm high on lemonade. Candlelit shadows mount the walls, blot part of us into the dark. I'm afraid and want to go home. My mother is unlike my mother: she is like a fish in a shoal, the pressure sense of their bodies creating a contour that twists and turns; their world sealed. Face after face could be hers: my first time to sense she belongs only there.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

An-bhróduil as mo dhán nua gaeilge atá foilsithe in "Aneas". My first Irish language poem published in the @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social journal. Buíochas leis an eagarthóir Simon Ó Faoláin.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Launched "Blood Atlas" at the Irish Secretariat in Belfast last night, alongside new work from these other fine writers - Celia de Fréine, Ruth Carr, Deirdre Cartmill and Csilla Toldy. Thanks to @arlenhouse.bsky.social and the audience for coming out to support new irish poetry!

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A special highlight of my US trip to read poetry at Consulate General of Ireland, Chicago, with fiddler Seán Cleland. Thanks to the Consulate team and Chicago Sister Cities for organising and hosting. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Thanks to DePaul University Chicago for inviting me to read some poems for the students yesterday. A beautiful Autumn day in the city.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Reading in DeKalb, Illinois, with Eamonn Wall as part of MWACIS 25 last night. Thanks to Class VI for their hospitality and to Sean Farrell for the invitation!

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Had a pop-up reading at @carleton.edu, Minnesota yesterday. Edgar Allan Poe showed up! Thanks to students and staff of the English Department. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Visiting University of Notre Dame, Indiana, last week. Poetry reading and Q&A hosted by @ndirishstudies.bsky.social. A joy to speak to the students, especially those who are studying gaeilge. Bhí sé iontach gaeilge a labhairt leis na daltaí. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I'm reading poetry from "Blood Atlas" in Chicago at Consulate General of Ireland on Oct 21st. Featuring music from Seán Cleland. In association with Chicago Sister Cities International. Registration open at www.ireland.ie/en/usa/chica... @arlenhouse.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Join @aoifelyall.bsky.social to celebrate the release of a new pamphlet! Details below. Pamphlet launch event: The Man Who Made Up Trees by Michael Greavy Tickets, Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite share.google/HLOJ2FjNASfk...

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Pamphlet launch event: The Man Who Made Up Trees by Michael Greavy

Please join us to celebrate the launch of the winning pamphlet from Magma's 2024 Open Poetry Pamphlet Competition Weds 1st October 7-8pm

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

A treat to read at "The Poetry Lounge" in Waterford yesterday, with John Noonan and D'or Seifer. Thanks to Ger Duffy for organising and the close reading of "Blood Atlas" for the Q&A. Cheers to Catherine for the photos and @poetryireland.bsky.social for sponsoring. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Join us at Clifden Arts Festival on the 23rd Sept! Great to be part of the 2025 edition of this historic fest with other poets whom I so deeply admire. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

From today's Irish Times. Thank you to editor Gerry Smyth. From "Blood Atlas" (Arlen House, 2025) @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Great to be guest poet for a group of visiting students from @carleton.edu MN at Trinity College yesterday. We read from "Blood Atlas" and discussed the poems. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

At the Irish Writers Centre earlier this week for a reading with Lauren O'Donovan, Afric McGlinchey, D'or Seifer and S.C. Flynn. Thanks to Damien Donnelly for organising this, it was a lovely event. Great to see some friends and poetic colleagues in the audience.

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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

NEW WRITERS SHOWCASE SERIES! 🌟Spotlighting newly published writers across the island of Ireland🌟 Our first event will feature five poets from various parts of Ireland. 🗓️Wed 18 June 2025 🕣6.30-8.30pm 📍Irish Writers Centre, Dublin 🎟️ €5 (via Eventbrite) irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...

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Writers Showcase: The Out of Towners - Irish Writers Centre

Join us at the Irish Writers Centre on Wednesday 18th June at 6.30pm for the first of our Writers Showcase.

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Thanks so much to everyone who came to hear @itosha.bsky.social & @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social launch their new collections with Anne Tannam on Sunday @arlenhouse.bsky.social @salmonpoetry.bsky.social

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Double poetry launch ! 2pm tomorrow with poetry from Afric McGlinchy, @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social & Anne Tannam: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/launch-mcglinchey-morgan/

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Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Looking forward to reading my newest poetry purchase @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin launch 14:00 Sunday next, 1st June at Books Upstairs. Congratulations Luke!

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Luke Morgan. Blood Atlas. Winner of The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Ward. Arlen House.

Colour drawing of a galleon ship in full sail.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Thanks to John Morley on Galway Bay FM for having me on the show to discuss "Blood Atlas"! @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Appearing on Galway Bay FM at 10.40am to discuss "Blood Atlas". Tune in online! @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Some photos from the Galway launch of "Blood Atlas" last night in Charlie Byrne's. Thank you to @mollytwomey.bsky.social for launching! I'll cherish this. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Arlen House @arlenhouse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Arlen House - Celebrating 50 Years Galway launch of *Blood Atlas* @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social Winner of the 2025 Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award Tomorrow, Friday 23 May at 6pm at Charlie Byrne's, Galway ALL WELCOME

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A joy to appear in Cyphers #99 among so many great writers. And great to read my contribution at the launch as part of Strokestown Poetry Festival last weekend.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

5 new poems appearing in Rochford Street Review (Australia). Thanks to Mark Roberts, Linda Adair and editors. These poems are from "Blood Atlas", forthcoming @arlenhouse.bsky.social rochfordstreetreview.com/2025/04/30/l...

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Luke Morgan: 5 Poems

Luke Morgan is a poet from Galway, Ireland. His third collection Blood Atlas is new from Arlen House in 2025. He is the recipient of the 29th Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A sonnet on modern love, appearing in the new issue of Fortnight. Thanks to editor @rosemaryj77.bsky.social for including my work. @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thank you to fellow poet Damien Donnelly for these deeply-felt words for my "Blood Atlas".

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Full House for the reading at Milkweed in Minneapolis yesterday! And such a thrill to see "Blood Atlas" on the shelf there. @milkweededitions.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

An honour to be presented with the 29th O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry at the University of St. Thomas, MN last night. Thanks to Dr. Gardiner, Arlen House, Irish Consulate Chicago. As past winner Moya Cannon writes, "Light is what days are made of". This day will shine for years to come.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

An honour to join this wall of Irish poets who have inspired my work since I was at school. Hello from University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, where the O'Shaughnessy proceedings are beginning!

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Happy Mother's Day, to all who celebrate! Here's one for mine: "Conducting", from Honest Walls (2016, @arlenhouse.bsky.social).

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

New poem in "The Cormorant" about my great-grandmother, who survived an attack by a German plane while cycling on her bike in England during WW2. Also in "Blood Atlas", forthcoming from @arlenhouse.bsky.social May 2025.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My new collection. "Blood Atlas" is available to pre-order with all good bookshops now. Including the wonderful @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and Charlie Byrne's. From @arlenhouse.bsky.social, May 2025.

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Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

from "The Lesser-Known Senses", a new 10-part sequence of sonnets featured in "Blood Atlas". This poem appeared first in "New Hibernia Review" (USA). @arlenhouse.bsky.social

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