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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Full house @booksupstairs.bsky.social for launch of A THOUGHT WITHOUT COLLISION by Adrian Duncan (Tuskar Rock Press @serpents-tail.bsky.social) Beautiful reading with a great & far-reaching conversation hosted by Cathy Sweeney 💫

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

CLARA AND CHRISTINA by Andrew Cunning @johnmurrays.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social the other evening. Hosted by @hollowaywriter.bsky.social with books by @booksupstairs.bsky.social Stunning reading, great conversation & the loveliest of writer friends ❤️ And tote bags for all!

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Great to have time in NO ALIBIS & to pick up these absolute beauties CROWD WORK @samfurlong.bsky.social Macha Press AMONG COMMUNISTS Sinéad Morrissey @carcanet.bsky.social DEVOTIONS @lucycaldwell.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social Huge thanks to David & all there for stocking 'State, in Relation'💙

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Poet & writer MARIA STEPANOVA with us, at last, in Dublin @ilfdublin.bsky.social Discussing IN MEMORY OF MEMORY & THE DISSAPEARING ACT @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social & WAR OF THE BEASTS AND THE ANIMALS @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social all translated by @sashadugdale.bsky.social 💙

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

LIVES OF THE SAINTS by Mícheál McCann The Gallery Press A special evening, the quietest house for a stunning reading by Mícheál, introduced beautifully by @louisenealon.bsky.social with a heartstopping piece of music 'DAWN' by violinist Zuzanna Edmonds The Crescent Arts Centre Belfast ❤️

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"Not Yet With The Ashes This Ragged Thing" A poetry Reading at the hawthorn tree in the Botanic Gardens by Oein DeBhairduin & an extraordinary discussion with Anne Burke @skeinpress.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Please join us Tues May 5th @ 6pm @booksupstairs.bsky.social For a glass of wine & celebratory reading & panel discussion on 'State, in Relation' w/ Annemaire Ni Churreáin, Susan Tomaselli, Nithy Kasa @oeiny.bsky.social @clarebell.bsky.social & Sonya Gildea booksupstairs.ie/all-events/s...

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Wednesday Night, @foylesforbooks.bsky.social St James' Church. Picaddilly, Ben Lerner TRANSCRIPTIONS @grantabooks.bsky.social in conversation with Octavia Bright Beautiful place, great evening with @tnyto.bsky.social ❤️

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

TATE MODERN @tatemodern.bsky.social Last week. Extraordinary to see this work & these images and artefacts spanning Abromovic's Rhythm Series and to just have the time to walk among them. If in London, drop in.

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Very nice to spot IN THE GOOD SEATS @pva-books.bsky.social @tatemodern.bsky.social in London Last week Editors Nathan O'Donnell, Niamh Dunphy & Adrian Duncan

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

@dlrarts.bsky.social WRITER'S COFFEE MORNING & INFO SESSION Sat. Mar 21st 11 - 1pm, Project Room @ Lexicon Library Dun Laoghaire Please join us. All welcome 💙 To register, please email full name to sonyadlrwriterinresidence@gmail.com

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Drawing the working year to a close. Love and thanks to all who made it possible and to the dearest of writer friends & collaborators. ❤️ Image: 'Woman and Horse', by Felix Thiollier, 1899

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Join us on Sunday for the launch of STATE, IN RELATION @tbgands.bsky.social Dublin Art Book Fair 2025 #DABF25 with accompanying print installation OMITTED PROVISIONS www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

@stingingfly.bsky.social Launch of ISSUE 53 The Climate Issue @ Digital Depot, introduced by Declan Meade & Editor Lisa McInerny, w/readings from @junec.bsky.social, Simon Costello & many others 💫 @eoieoin.bsky.social in the raffle hat w/writers Lianne O'Hara, Ella Gaynor & Kasandra Ferguson✨

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The Pig's Back Dublin Launch ISSUE # 7 @booksupstairs.bsky.social last night with @thepigsback.bsky.social co-editors Dean Fee & Emily Cooper. Hosted by Louisa of Books Upstairs, With celebratory readings from Issue #7 and # 6💫

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social NEVER A ROSE Very happy to have a poem included here and to be in such fine company. Huge thanks to Editors Gregory McCartney & Susanna Galbraith💫

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

HYMN TO ALL THE RESTLESS GIRLS by Annemarie Ní Churreáin & FALLEN by Audrey Molloy The Gallery Press Launch @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week 💫

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

AFTER PARTY by @deanbrowne.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social Introduced by Louisa Earls of @booksupstairs.bsky.social and launched by Tom Morris. 💫 Now we're talking. Let's go!

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The loveliest thing to hear some of these poems out in the wild last week, a storm raging up outside. @jesstraynor.bsky.social's NEW ARCANA @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, introduced beautifully by Seán Hewitt at the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social. How lucky we are❤️

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Full house @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week for launch of THE HARE'S CORNER @newislandbooks.bsky.social in partnerships w/@burrenbeotrust.bsky.social, with poetry by @janeclarke.bsky.social, prose Catherine Cleary & illustrations Jane Carkill.

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I found this beauty in my letter box. Delivery by stealth and kindness. FILLY Extraordinary work by Rosamund Taylor @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social and all @bansheepress.bsky.social ✨

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

@dlrarts.bsky.social Writer's Coffee Morning & Information Session on mentorship. Please Join Carolyn Brown Dlr Arts, Olivia Fitzsimons, Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Sonya Gildea 20th Sept 11-1pm Meeting Room, Lexicon Library All welcome, registrations required: sonyadlrwriterinresidence@gmail.com

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

* Quiet mornings working with a friend's manuscript. This is happiness.

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

* Wendy Erskine. There's no one like her. 'The Benefactors' @sceptrebooks.bsky.social celebratory launch last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social, mesmerising reading by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social introduced by Asna Khan Khattak & @sineadgleeson.bsky.social & hosted by Louisa Earls. ❤️

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Mesmerising reading from 'Aug 9- Fog' @bookworks.bsky.social by Kathryn Scanlan on Fri afternoon @ Belfast Book Festival, & great conversation with & reading by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social from 'The Benefactors' @sceptrebooks.bsky.social, hosted by Declan Meade @Crescent Arts Centre.

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Nice to find these beauties on the shelves in Buchhandlung Walther König on Burgstrasse, Berlin. 'Well I Just Kind of Like It' edited by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @pva-books.bsky.social & 'You Spin Me Round' edited by Adrian Duncan_ Niamh Dunphy & Nathan O'Donnell @pva-books.bsky.social ✨

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A friend sent me to Ivallan’s Books, Berlin @ivallansbooks.bsky.social “Second-hand and exceptional books”. Beautiful place to spend some time. Spotted a @tolkajournal.bsky.social issue #2 high on a shelf.

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Very hapy to have joined the Irish Writer’s Centre panel for one-to-one mentoring in poetry, short stories and creative non-fiction. More details on the IWC website & link below. Thanks to all @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

* A work of mesmerising prose. Sinéad Morrissey reading from her new book (@carcanet.bsky.social 2026) and in conversation with Damien Smyth (Arts Council Northern Ireland) in the Canada Room @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on Friday evening.

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Thursday evening @tlrhub.bsky.social Great reading by Victoria Kennefick in conversation with Seán Hewitt✨

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I keep coming back to this. Again and again . . . Kathryn Scanlan Aug 9 Fog MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2019)

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Celebrating the life & work of poet Eavan Boland and the naming of the new Eavan Boland library @tcddublin.bsky.social A great & far-reaching conversation with poets Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Katie Donovan & Victoria Kennefick hosted by Dr. Rosie Lavan of TCD💙

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Beautiful reading by Charlie Lang from his collection OASIS @skeinpress.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social the other evening 💙

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Studio 6 Collective A long & inspiring day w/ fellow collaborators on this collective project, Nathan O'Donnell, Clare Bell, Annemarie Ní Churreáin @oeiny.bsky.social @stomaselli.bsky.social Nithy Kasa & creative partners TBG+S w/thanks @artscouncilireland.bsky.social for making such work possible

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Great readings last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social by Maggie Armstrong, Francis Halsall, Ian Maleney & Cathy Sweeney @pva-books.bsky.social 'IN THE GOOD SEATS Editors Nathan O'Donnell, Adrian Duncan & Niamh Dunphy Stunning.

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

February quiet. Reading & listening to Clare Sestanovich. claresestanovich.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4PS... @harvardbookstore.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 💫

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Congratulations to Parker @gphibbett.bsky.social (& all @bansheepress.bsky.social) as well as all those shortlisted ✨ www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

5pm (IST) Wednesday, March 12th✨ "The Travel Award was established to assist poets in their creative development and specifically to help realise a project requiring travel within or outside Ireland and offers an award of £2,000 to do this" irelandchairofpoetry.org/ireland-chai...

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Stunning readings Tues night for Launch of Poetry Ireland Review Issue #144 Beautiful work by Issue #144 Editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social and as always, all @poetryireland.bsky.social ✨

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

'Duets' Scratch Books. A January gift by post from @tnyto.bsky.social and London💙

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

What a beautiful reading from Parker @ The TS Eliot Prize ceremony just now. Well done @gphibbett.bsky.social & all @bansheepress.bsky.social ❤️

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Bringing the working year to a close. Love and thanks to all who made it possible and to the dearest of writer friends & collaborators. ❤️ Image: 'Woman and Horse', by Felix Thiollier, 1899

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Great gathering & great readings last night for ⁦ Poetry Ireland's end of year celebrations✨

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Great readings and chats last night for @stingingfly.bsky.social launch & winter party💙 Issue 51 Volume 2, Winter 2024✨

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This was mesmerising. Composer (& 2023-24 Artist in Residence @National Concert Hall) Bryce Dessner; Conductor André de Ridder; Soloist Pekka Kuusisto; & Irish NSO. Great post-concert conversation with John Kelly & some fine trad fiddle playing from Pekka to see everyone home💙

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Huge love & thanks to all who joined Joanne Hayden & myself at the Lexicon Theatre Tues eve for a celebratory reading & discussion w/Olivia Fitzsimons to mark the closing of our dlr Arts Writer's Residencies.💙 All thanks to Carolyn Brown, all dlr Arts & The Arts Council of Ireland💙

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