Reposted by Paul SweeneyGraeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The shortlist for this year's TS Eliot prize: 141
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ah brilliant I see Billy Ramsell nominated for the TS Elliot Prize 2026 tseliot.com/prize/prize-...tseliot.com2026 – T. S. Eliot Prize 020
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Turning like wings Falling autumn leaves - The kitten catches one ! 010
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Jorie Graham, Killing Spree “Midday wintering light Oiled gently up every tree” Oof. 040
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fitz very quietly building the next prestige poetry press IMHO… 072
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“That moment” when a poem you are revising reveals a deep secret that you could not have known beforehand. That. 040
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Makes me go out and buy specific collections from poets represented here. Which is a great thing anthologies do. 111
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is a wonderful interview with Amanda Quaid , with great poems, (hard to believe she had not written poetry before!) . Well worth your time. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...podcasts.apple.comPoetry Unbound in Conversation — Amanda QuaidPodcast Episode · Poetry Unbound · 18 September · 52min 000
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I will be reading from a new sequence of poems this evening at An Cead Tine Gallery, Kilkenny. In general I find painters to be very receptive to poetry. It will be interesting to see how these new poems go over … 120
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Thoroughly enjoyed rereading that. Will do so again, no doubt. 👏@evanpjones.bsky.social 020
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This mornings reread (and I believe poetry has to be reread to be considered read at all!) 030
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@andrewfitzsimons.bsky.social interview for @carcanet.bsky.social . I do love haiku and Prof. Fitzsimons wears his learning lightly! 🙇♂️ youtu.be/1kidbW4HMTk?...youtu.beAndrew Fitzsimons: My Father the Dog Book LaunchYouTube video by Carcanet Press 010
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@joriegraham.bsky.social Launch of Killing Spree with @carcanet.bsky.social . Interesting discussion. I always learn from listening to her . youtu.be/sy8yCFAsnSw?...youtu.beJorie Graham: Killing Spree Book LaunchYouTube video by Carcanet Press 000
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026in Edo, I closed my fan - At home I will remember The cold wind of Mount Fuji Bashō @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social 030
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Very promising! And I’ve only just read the table of contents so far ! 000
Reposted by Paul SweeneyPaul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen. 381757407
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026@alecfinlay.bsky.social absolutely great email this morning 👏 010
Reposted by Paul SweeneyJen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Remembering the comfort this poem by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski —selected by Alice Quinn to run in the New Yorker on Sept 17, 2001 —gave to so many. #NeverForget #September11 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57095/...poetryfoundation.orgTry to Praise the Mutilated WorldTry to praise the mutilated world. Praise the mutilated world and the gray feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes and… 056
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The poem of the day today (email list from poems.com) is by Kevin Prufer “A Friendship” and it’s pretty damn good. Off to buy his last book on the back of it. poems.com/poem/a-frien...poems.comA FriendshipI gave Alex my ruined piano. 010
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hey @dapowell.bsky.social look what arrived in the post :) 120
Reposted by Paul SweeneyGuillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The @librarything.com giveaway is now live. Ten digital copies up for grabs and no country restrictions. Tell your friends, share if you care and so on. www.librarything.com/ner/ulibrarything.comEarly Reviewers | Manage Giveaways | LibraryThingLibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free. 011
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026No surprise . Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UN www.irishtimes.com/environment/...irishtimes.comBattle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UNFocus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report 011
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Good poem by Ginny Duke, in The Stinging Fly. 030
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 21/08/202640 mins in here a really great poem by Róisín Leggett Bohan, a cork based poet. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comRóisín Leggett BohanPodcast Episode · The Stinging Fly Podcast · 19 August · 52min 140
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Really enjoyed listening to this again @davidnaimon.bsky.social I could listen to her read the phone book ! Or “how the yellow pages is a poem” :) podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/b...podcasts.apple.comFrom the Archives : Morgan Parker : Magical NegroPodcast Episode · Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · 13 August · 2hr 022
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Leaving The Body, by Allan Peterson. The last poem in his new collection “Amid This” from Bridewell Press 051
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026From “Tree Of Knowledge” by Victoria Chang. 171
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Remember ? “Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me“ 000
Reposted by Paul SweeneyAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Mary Ruefle on The Odyssey. 13771149
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Exactly what I started writing on. Except it had a blue background I think? 010
Reposted by Paul SweeneyEmma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor... 45729
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Limerick Poetry Alert! The brilliant Billy Ramsell will be reading at The White House Bar, tonight, Wednesday Aug 5th, 7.30. New book from @bansheepress.bsky.social 082
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My speculative purchase for last month. Know absolutely nothing about this poet other than I heard about him on a podcast, somewhere! 000
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Absolutely beautiful production value’s @stingingfly.bsky.social 140
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026A real event it would seem to me. All her books have been not only good, but groundbreaking. 011
