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@michaeldooley.bsky.social
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poems, mostly in Irish lit journals | trout and salmon, mostly still in the river | best efforts and tangents, the classroom Limerick, Ireland www.doirepress.com/books/poetry/in-… michaeldooleypoetry.com/about

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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Saddened to learn of the passing of the gifted poet and Bruff native, Majella Cullinane. The title poem from her debut collection, Guarding the Flame (Salmon, 2011)
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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With 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
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A joy to have a poem featured in this beautiful issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social. Warm thanks to Zoe Brigley for placing it in a magazine I have so long admired, and to Patrick Cotter for guiding the poem's development as part of the much-valued @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social mentorship bursary.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am grateful to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin for taking this poem for The Annexe. www.cyphers.ie
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
W. S. Merwin
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Warmest congratulations to my pal, the incomparable @deanbrowne.bsky.social. His is a collection like no other, and it's sublime to see it reach these magnificent and deserved heights. A book of singular imaginative vision and craft - long may After Party reign.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Keetje Kuipers
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My thanks to Malcolm Carson for his review of In Spring We Turned to Water, currently featured on The High Window. thehighwindowpress.com/category/rev...
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Gabrielle Bates
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Circling The Square @circlingpoetry.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Lots of photos from last year's Circling The Square, including Rosie Lavan and Bernard O'Donoghue, talking to Declan O'Driscoll, @eleanorhooker.bsky.social, @janeclarke.bsky.social and @michaeldooley.bsky.social
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Daragh Hoey
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Cora Brooks, Ploughshares Vol. 3 No. 3&4, 1977
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Molly Twomey
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Great to see the tour de force that is After Party by @deanbrowne.bsky.social in today's Sunday Times.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Jessica Traynor
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Dean Browne
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I was sorry to have missed the launch of the brilliant @bansheepress.bsky.social tonight. What they've given us in a decade!
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Spencer Reece
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
So looking forward to taking part in Circling The Square next week, a festival in honour of the great Dennis O'Driscoll.
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Circling The Square @circlingpoetry.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Just a week to go to this year's Circling The Square. Tickets and information available here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Very grateful to Jessica to have a poem amongst such company.
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
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Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Here's a little taster from New Arcana! Big thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for featuring a reading of my poem 'and the girl inside me' 🔮✨️
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Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Tidal by karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social is out now! Order here -> www.doirepress.com/books/poetry... #poem #literature #Irish #feminism #poetry
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I'm so grateful to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for this generous review of In Spring We Turned to Water in Poetry Ireland Review 146. Míle Buíochas, @doirepress.bsky.social, @poetryireland.bsky.social
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A tremendous collection of work being publisher this month.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Grateful for this.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Grateful for this opportunity to read at Circling the Square festival in Thurles, 01 Nov. Looking forward to beginning with a favourite Dennis O' Driscoll poem, too.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"Somewhere in France", Michael Hartnett. PIR 14, Autumn 1985
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Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
'McKenna speckles the collection with many surprising images, some contrasting nut this reader trusts that each one is placed into the poems as deliberately as the thief acquiring her collection of keys.' Review of FOUR THOUSAND KEYS by @lindamckenna.bsky.social in the new issue of Skylight 47
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Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
'... a book filled with outstanding poems. Horgan gives voice to a range of characters and concerns not often seen in Irish literature.' Big thanks to Seán Kelly at the @irishexaminer.bsky.social for this stellar review of CARE by @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Poetry review: A debut that urges us to care
Divided into five sections, this is a collection that very deliberately speaks to Ireland in the 2020s
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Chasing silver in Galway
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Karen Solie
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If you happen to have read the little book, please consider leaving a rating/review here www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
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In Spring We Turned to Water
In Spring We Turned to Water is the first full-length c…
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Excited to read today's book post
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Clíodhna Bhreatnach @cliodhnabhreatnach.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Happy, grateful, lucky, happy, to have a poetry pamphlet forthcoming with the brilliant Green Bottle Press. Launch in London, Friday 27th June, 7.30pm at the Arts Workers Guild (free wine). Dublin launch TBD!
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Blanca Varela, trans. Liana Kapelke-Dale nereview.com/article/the-...
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Really looking forward to this reading next week with Niamh McNally as part of Mountshannon Arts Festival - Saturday 31 May @ 3pm. www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/poe....
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Poetry Island - Evolution of a Poet | Poetry Ireland
Poetry Ireland - Connecting poetry and people
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
had the most wonderful event with Jennifer and Dean at the Cork International Poetry festival. Grateful to Patrick and all at @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
How to open a collection of poems. From Love Prodigal, by Traci Brimhall
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Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/ @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A fantastic start to this years Cork International Poetry Festival yesterday. Lots more to come today. All programme details: www.munsterlit.ie #corkevents #corkpoetryfest #corkcitylibrary
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
An honour to have co-won the Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award with the magnificent Parker Hibbett. My thanks to the judges, to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social, and to J&L @doirepress.bsky.social. Warmest congratulations to Victoria on winning the Farmgate. www.corkpoetryfest.net/awards.html
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Looking forward to reading alongside Niamh McNally at Mountshannon Arts Festival. www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/poe...
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Poetry Island - Evolution of a Poet | Poetry Ireland
Poetry Ireland - Connecting poetry and people
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! 💛🧡 Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.' @gphibbett.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Gustav Parker Hibbett wins John Pollard Prize
Books newsletter: a roundup of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages
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Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Next Wednesday our @michaeldooley.bsky.social & @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social will be reading at @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Cork Poetry Festival www.corkpoetryfest.net/wednesday.html
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Wednesday May 14th
The Cork International Poetry Festival, produced by the Munster Literature Centre
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Looking forward to this reading in Newcastle West tonight.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Thursday, May 1st, 7pm, Newcastle West library. Grateful for the invitation to read with the poets of West Limerick.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Honoured to be shortlisted for the Farmgate alongside such an incredible group of poets whose work I admire deeply. Grateful to the judges and all at Cork International Poetry Festival.
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Michael Dooley @michaeldooley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Was thrilled to read at Cúirt this year. Grateful to Manuela and for the invitation. A privilege to read alongside Jennifer Horgan and Paul Maddern, who introduced our books with such compassion. Thank you always to Lisa and John at @doirepress.bsky.social for their faith in the book.
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