Reposted by maijaCircling The Square @circlingpoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The full line-up for this year's Circling The Square. Book now or regret it when you hear how good it was! Tickets available @sourcearts.bsky.social 043
Reposted by maija𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 01/10/2026With atypical immodesty, I say, what a line-up! @deanbrowne.bsky.social @katiedpoet.bsky.social @fotoole.bsky.social @maijasofia.bsky.social @karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social @mollytwomey.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @tipperarylibraries.bsky.social 155
Reposted by maijaJess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New Arcana has been out for about a year. Celebrating by sharing some nasty little poems. ✨️ Thanks to @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social & all the various wonderful festivals reviewers and lit orgs who have supported the work this past year! 083
Reposted by maija𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Saturday afternoon events at this year's @circlingpoetry.bsky.social Tickets can be booked at @sourcearts.bsky.social @katiedpoet.bsky.social @maijasofia.bsky.social @fotoole.bsky.social 0207
Reposted by maijaAnya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Nice find in an old literary magazine 062
Reposted by maijaDorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"Vazquez has written a remarkable, strange - remarkably strange - novel (assiduously translated with immense imaginative depth by Alex Niemi)" A lovely new review of THE ENDLESS WEEK! by @jacqbetula.bsky.social at @fallowmedia.bsky.social Read it: fallowmedia.com/reviews/2026... 1137
Reposted by maijaEllen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 02/09/2026'Total adoration pours towards her from the seats. You could stroke it like an animal prancing and preening through the arena (a sports hall, usually basketball).' 241
Reposted by maijaEllen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026'poetry arose because I tended to take poems into my body' Máighréad Medbh Absolutely gobsmacked by the rightness of this 042
Reposted by maija𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My review of 'The Endless Week' by Laura Vazquez, translated by Alex Niemi, published by @dorothyproject.bsky.social is now available to read online. Many thanks to @fallowmedia.bsky.social fallowmedia.com/reviews/2026...fallowmedia.comLaura Vazquez – The Endless Week | Fallow MediaLaura Vazquez's defiantly diffuse novel makes us constantly aware of how vulnerable to pain our soft bodies are, and how much our freedom is at the behest of others. 285
Reposted by maijaDavid Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 04/06/2026My @fallowmedia.bsky.social review of Joana Masó’s Tosquelles: Healing Institutions, texts translated by Robert Hurley and Mara Faye Lethem. An essential work on the radical psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. Pub @semiotexte.bsky.social US & Divided Publishing UK/EU. fallowmedia.com/reviews/2026... 0122
Reposted by maijaDavid Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 22/08/2026nobody ever comes home Eva Figes, from 'Days' 2222
Reposted by maijaelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The British press is by and large one of the most revolting institutions I’ve ever encountered. They hounded him to death for hate and clicks. He had two kids. F-ing monsters 6692189
Reposted by maijaRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Think of all the mediocre white men with their plagiarism/stealing student work/sexual harassment who kept their jobs or quietly retired but are alive. Jason Arday’s situation did NOT have to play out or end this way, no matter his errors. And the media and everyone with a hot take is responsible. 636576
Reposted by maijaMargaret Cahill @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"We’re 8 years into it this year and we wanted to nod to our roots whilst showcasing the vast landscape of weirdo Irish music... Show everyone around you that your village or your town or your city isn’t just for tech companies and car parks." ❤️ Feile na Greine thethinair.net/2026/08/feil...thethinair.net 064
Reposted by maijaMarc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Diane di Prima was born on this day in 1934. She started writing her Revolutionary Letters in 1968, adding to them until shortly before her death in 2020. Here’s the first. #poetry 093
Reposted by maijaCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026That harm to women and girls in general is not taken seriously, combined with multiple high-profile men continuing to get passes based on power, talent, or activism with other causes, creates a very worrying landscape for women. Tolerance is still way too high. It needs to start actually mattering. 026445
Reposted by maijaWendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026Next time someone asks you the bad faith question “Have any women come forward?”, here you are. 18239
Reposted by maijaImbibe Coffee Roasters @imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Today I shall mostly be drinking this and listening to Neko Case. 2344
Reposted by maijaN u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The Editor of CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social Charles Boyle (pictured below) would like to get more books into bookshops & readers' hands. If you're a bookshop, or a reader, please order directly from him to make him smile! Please share this post. . . www.cbeditions.com/books.html 0209
Reposted by maijaCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Between the Leto story and everything else it's as abundantly clear as ever that way too many people still don't care about or acknowledge the harm many men in the public eye do to women and girls, even when it's an open secret. 036172
Reposted by maijaodubhda @odubhda.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Now shpoolin': Classic Hiss Volume One: Boreens and Backroads. Irish bands/artists cover Pavement/Silver Jews to make money for Palestinian aid organisations. A great bunch of lads, etc etc classichiss.bandcamp.com/album/classi... #cassunday 0166
Reposted by maijaprada 丰 meinhof @prada-meinhof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026“No more poetry in the shape of a cowardly maybe, or florescent yes, or cloying, collaborating, reactionary, status-loving, and desperately eager whatever-they-say-I’ll-do. I like no. It’s sidewise to a reverse mantra (om). It’s stealthy, portable, and unslouching.” Anne Boyer, avril 13, 2017.poetryfoundation.orgNoPoems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine. 062
maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 08/07/2026reading at Temple Bar Gallery tomorrow for the launch of @pva-books.bsky.social fashion issue yay www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve... 011
Reposted by maijaCharles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Reznikoff: the CBe July newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/07/news... 2199
Reposted by maijaSinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...irishtimes.comBessborough vigil hears survivors will chain themselves to diggers to stop building work140 apartments are planned for the site of a mother and baby home where 923 children died 510057
Reposted by maijaOrlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 22/06/2026fallowmedia.com/reviews/2026... Rare moment of reading and writing about reading, rather than applying for jobs!fallowmedia.comNora Lange – Day Care | Fallow MediaA world where the very instance of a feeling or thought’s inception is also that of its expression, poses a problem for literary form—the challenge Nora Lange sets herself is how to pose, once more an... 031
Reposted by maijaTramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026We are delighted to share the cover for THE MOST NORMAL WOMAN: ESSAYS ON APPEARANCES by Roisin Kiberd, forthcoming August 27th! Designed by Elisha Zepeda What is normal, anyway? Find out more and pre-order here: tramppress.com/product/the-... 4189
Reposted by maijaNick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 13/06/2026A great review-essay about CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS in the New York Review of Books! Poetry, gossip, publishing, New York, economics--what's not to love? www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comWhen the Rents Were Low | Joe DunthorneAn oral history of the New York School Poets suggests how its successive cohorts have changed over the years. 0123
Reposted by maijaEllen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I'm so proud of this one, and happy to see it in the world. Available now from Broken Sleep. There will be a launch event with @leeannequinn.bsky.social 's wonderful Landscape with Question at Waterstone's Cork on July 28th 🎣 0195
Reposted by maijaZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price. 21244641259
Reposted by maijaColm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling. 7738221059
Reposted by maijaChristodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social · 06/06/2026re:verb day 1 yesterday 5/6: 162
Reposted by maijaCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war. 2592184710
Reposted by maijaBroken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... 2156
Reposted by maijaKit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Ellen will be reading at re:verb this weekend if you are in Dublin or environs Tickets here, yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/reverb.html, curated by @cmakris.bsky.socialyesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.comChristodoulos Makrisre :verb a festival of contemporary poetry & the verbal arts Dublin, Ireland Director: Christodoulos Makris Partner Venue: Kirkos Partner Bo... 021
Reposted by maijaWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/06/2026#OtD 1 Jun 1940 the Greek anarchist feminist and poet Katerina Gogou was born. She opposed the military dictatorship, supported workers' struggles and the burgeoning LGBT movt, and was frequently subjected to police violence. Commemorated by this design: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s... 07729
maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 30/05/2026this day next week! www.citizenticket.com/events/kirko...citizenticket.comre:verb 2026 - Alice Lyons & Maija Makela - Buy ticketsre:verb 2026 - a festival of contemporary poetry & the verbal arts (Director: Christodoulos Makris) 011
maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I wrote a piece for the fashion issue of @pva-books.bsky.social on the adolescent nihilism of Courtney Love's silk slips, babydoll dresses, The Virgin Suicides and other peak Tumblr-era teenage dream dresses💕obviously doctor you've never been a 13 yr old girl!!! papervisualart.com/product/pva-... 150
Reposted by maijaFrank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Well done Revolutionary Housing League lreland Longterm empty buildings are vandalism Time for "use it or lose it" 24010
Reposted by maijaDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should 76118164114
Reposted by maijaThe Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 21/05/2026At The Wire website, read an extract from Graeme Thomson’s In Another World: The Four Seasons Of Talk Talk, which comes out today via New Modern. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...thewire.co.ukRead an extract from In Another World: The Four Seasons Of Talk Talk - The WireIn this extract from his new book on Talk Talk, Graeme Thomson investigates the conditions and influences behind the group’s 1991 album Laughing Stock 0248
Reposted by maijaChristodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social · 06/05/2026RE:VERB 2026 - PROGRAMME NOW LIVE! Session tickets: €10 Festival pass: €35 Read the Festival Announcement: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/05/reve... Visit the Festival Webpage (artist info + tickets): yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/reverb.html 179
maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 20/05/2026an essay I wrote last year about Alice Notley is now online, on the anniversary of her passing 🌀 fallowmedia.com/journal/02/m... 000
Reposted by maijaCharles Beckett @charlesbeckett.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The magnificent Emily Berry has a poem in the @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comLiving | Emily BerryIt was hard for us, the way you diedevery day, slowly and then all at once,just as such things are said to happen.Spring came, so soon it almost seemedyou 063
Reposted by maijasherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Rest in peace Alice Notley 🖤 This is a good read: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... 17717
Reposted by maijaLos Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2026"'This Poor Book' is an astonishing swan song, a travelogue between worlds." @maijasofia.bsky.social reviews Fanny Howe’s “This Poor Book.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-po… 021
Reposted by maijaLos Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"Like all the best poets, Howe is a master of incorporating silence within her poetry-philosophy." @maijasofia.bsky.social reviews Fanny Howe’s “This Poor Book" lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-po… 031
maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I wrote about This Poor Book, Fanny Howe’s incredible final long poem for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🌀🌀🌀🌀the book is out now via @graywolfpress.bsky.social & Divided Publishing lareviewofbooks.org/article/this...lareviewofbooks.orgThis Possible Grain of Light | Los Angeles Review of BooksFanny Howe’s posthumous epic poem reads like an intercepted signal that explores what is ‘Unlocatable and Hidden.’ 021
