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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The eternally moonlit world of Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

Four paintings depicting nocturnal scenes in Victorian England on full moon nights.

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Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An #Otwituary for singer #LenaMartell Yesterday’s gone; the ballrooms fall to the wrecking balls of talent show and karaoke. A woman takes the mic and rakes among the ruins of a heart, pokes at the embers of a gospel tune, does every day what she has to do.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Helen Ivory / @helenivory.bsky.social is currently open for general submissions of poetry and short prose. For more details go to inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Submissions

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Helen Ivory
is currently open for
general submissions of
poetry and short prose.

These will close at midnight on
30 September or when we reach 60 in total!

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HOWL New Irish Writing @howlwriting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

HOWL New Irish Writing 26 launches on Tuesday, October 6th, 6:30 pm at the wonderful Waterstones, Cork. We'd love if you could be with us to help celebrate this beautiful book being released into the wild.

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fran Lock's,The Department of Queer Complaint, a follow up collection to the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted, Hyena, is going to be published by us in early 2027. We are very excited! Can't wait!

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Siobhan Potter. @shivpotter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Happy to be included in this very fine publication ⬇️ thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop/product/pb12 @poetrybuspress.bsky.social

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HOWL New Irish Writing @howlwriting.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

HOWL 26 submissions are now open. We’re accepting poetry and prose (fiction and nonfiction) in English agus as Gaeilge from February 13th – February 23rd. We want the raw and the real. If it excites you, send it to us. Full guidelines + submission details: 🔗 www.howlwriting.ie#submit

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art damp, depressing, and prone to greenfly.

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HOWL New Irish Writing @howlwriting.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

HOWL opens for subs for New Irish Writing once every two years, and that window is quickly approaching! From Feb 13th - Feb 23rd you can submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to HOWL 26 at howlwriting.ie We hope we are lucky enough to receive your work!

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Our new issue is online and free to read. Go see! If you like it and have a spare quid or two, we'd be grateful for a donation! You can here: www.abridged.zone/obtaining-ab... Ta!

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Obtaining Abridged / Donating to Abridged | Abridged Zone

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Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/ @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We are now taking Fiction submissions for Southword. Just over 3 weeks to get your entry in!Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck! #poetry #southword #fictionwriting

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Lovely to get a mention in The Lonely Crowd's Books of the Year!

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Submissions to PB12, the 12th edition of our poetry magazine, are now open. Please send up to 3 poems as an attachment with no identifying info to buspoems@gmail.com Put you name in the body of the email. Many thanks and please share!

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Cordite felicitations to one and all!

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Insomniacs. Stop wondering why you can't sleep and start questioning why they can.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Okay, my ardent followers who have been troubled wondering what to get me for Christmas; your troubles are over.

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West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Do you have a music or book lover in your life? We have the perfect gift for culture vultures who love world class artistic experiences in beautiful settings! Gift vouchers available for our 3 festivals @westcorkmusic.bsky.social Literary Festival & Masters of Tradition westcorkmusic.ie/giftvouchers

Give a gift of live music and literature this Christmas. West Cork Music vouchers can be used for individual events, festivals and even towards Friend memberships. Choose a specific festival to gift or our overall voucher which covers everything. Buy online at westcorkmusic.ie/giftvouchers or contact our box office. Valid for five years from date of purchase. National and European posting available

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The Artist Taxi Driver @chunkymark.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Turner Prize 2024 Jasleen Kaur youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY?...

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Turner Prize 2024 Jasleen Kaur

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Tooth, Nail. Fighting while there is breath the cloistered Irish poetry scene. Class, belonging, fitting. Knowing, deep, stubborn, fuck them, fucking that shit, refusing to stop if going on is the tiniest grain rubbing in the soft shoe of their safe smug glug of gorgeous.

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Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

@poetrybuspress.bsky.social Welcome, Poetry Bus! I feel like I took this picture forever ago

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

So I walked as day was dawning where small birds sang and leaves were falling where we once watched the rowboats landing on the broad majestic Shannon.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 25/11/2024

Bus Stop in Paris, Photo by Roger Schall, 1930s

a wet night time scene
a group of people boarding a bus. a figure to the right, wrapped up against the weather, holding an umbrella.

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Irish Literary Society @irishlitsoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

No plans for Monday night? Now you do - get yer skates on and get down to Hammersmith we have Neil Jordan, one of Ireland’s great filmmakers in discussion on his memoir. Tonight, 7.30, tix on door / online: irishlitsoc.org/event/neil-j...

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Neil Jordan – 25 Nov

Neil Jordan is unique in his success both as a fiction writer and a movie maker. In his new memoir Amnesiac he looks back over his twin careers with a certain amused wonderment – how did he m…

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

In case anyone else is feeling the urge to read more Fran Lock... thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Many congratulations to Manchester City on their five in a row.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi Bluesky, we're a radical publishing collective and events curator based in South London. We run an online journal called theHythe. Follow us for poetry, fiction, and essays that prioritise radical, anti-colonial, anti-racist, late modernist voices! #booksky #indiepress #indiebooks

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Mark Bolsover @mdbolsover.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

‘the horror film. (—a dream. ... ).’ (Oct. 2019)— I was very pleased to have a new #experimental #prose-#poetry piece out, in-with @poetrybuspress.bsky.social: #8 thepoetrybusmag.wixsite.com/change #writing #WritingCommunity

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Lucy Coats @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Poetry Community Starter Pack. Thank you all so much. I’m trying to add people as fast as I can, so please be patient if you haven’t yet had a response. So many fab poets, presses & lit mags to explore! #PoetsOnBluesky #Poetry go.bsky.app/HkRFQHo

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S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

My collection The Colour of Extinction is Poetry Book of the Month in the Observer. With a great review. Stuart #poetry @howfashionating.bsky.social

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Poetry Bus Press @poetrybuspress.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We are very excited that our publication, Hyena! by Fran Lock is on the PEN Heaney Prize shortlist! Well done to all involved. www.englishpen.org/prizes/pen-h...

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PEN Heaney Prize - English PEN

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 16/11/2024

Happy publication to all our wonderful contributors! Best British Short Stories 2024 is available now! 🥳🎉🥂 Buy now: www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

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Brian Cutts @briancutts.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Interesting artistic project by artist Patrick Murphy and poet Ian McMillan on the changing language around mental health, inspired by interviews talking about Sheffield’s old Middlewood Mental Hospital. For Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind 2024. youtu.be/gFeVXRIrJcM?...

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Mind : You're Language

YouTube video by Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Thanks Ian McMillan for hosting us on BBC R4 The Verb. I read from & chatted about My Hummingbird Father & Beast, Alan Connor had 188 words for rain! Deryn Rees Jones read #FleurAdcock’s neon line & her own, Isy Suttie sang fireworks & we kind of joined in! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, Isy Suttie, Pascale Petit, Deryn Rees Jones, Alan Connor

Poets Pacale Petit and Deryn Rees Jones join Isy Suttie and Alan Connor for The Verb.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Delighted to have a poem in this fantastic looking issue of @CrannogM

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NLI marks acquisition of Paul Durcan Archive www.nli.ie/news-stories...

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NLI marks acquisition of Paul Durcan Archive

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