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Trish Bennett

@trishbennettwriter.bsky.social
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Irish writer, performer, keeper of creatures, Leitrim/Fermanagh border. Roscommon New Writing Award ‘22, ACNI Support ‘22/23. Trishbennettwriter.com. Debut Collection-Stench, Arlen House at www.kennys.ie/shop/stench-bennett-t…

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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Had an absolute blast at Dundalk Poetry Festival in Roe River Books last Friday 29th May. These amazing photos by Zane from Astory Media show the craic and the crowds. Thanks to John, and Marian, and Tom and the wonderful bookshop staff. @Arlen house roeriverbooks.store/gallery/dund...
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Dundalk Poetry Festival With John Noonan - Roe River Books
Dundalk Poetry Festival with John Noonan brought together poets, writers, musicians and readers for a memorable celebration of literature and creativity.
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Looking forward to hearing all the mighty poets in action on Friday 29th and Sat 30th May. Come on in and support us. Thanks to the mighty John Noonan for all his hard work and for including me. See ye soon, 🥂📚🤗
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Arlen House @arlenhouse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Arlen House is delighted to announce the forthcoming *Shapechangers: 1960s Women Reflect on their Writing Lives* edited by @nessao.bsky.social PRE-ORDER booksupstairs.ie/product/shap... The 1st sequel to the bestseller *Look! It's a Woman Writer!* Thanks to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Those poets. Up to no good as usual…x
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Apologies to all, see ye again, I hope. 🤞 x
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
✨ April Poetry Evening ✨ 📅 Friday 10th April 🕢 7:30pm 🎟️ Free - booking essential 👉 tr.ee/7RdO2qtT13 Come along to the United Arts Club, Dublin for an evening of powerful, heartfelt, and entertaining poetry. @arlenhouse.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Put on the kettle as there’s a lot in there from growing up on the border during the Troubles to admitting being awestruck over a fellow Leitrimer. Thanks to all who’ve supported me over the years, and to Jillian and Pete for letting me at it. #leitrim #fermanagh #border #writing #grief #humour
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Galway folks, see ye soon (I hope!). I’m revved up and rearing to go! Looking forward to hearing everyone. Thanks to the wonderful Anne Donnellan for the invite. @poetryireland.bsky.social
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I’ve always enjoyed his book reviews, but this one made me cry. Thank you Aidy. I owe ya a pint or ten… @arlenhouse.bsky.social #Fermanagh #Leitrim #Irishpoetry www.bookshelfdiscovery.com/books/stench...
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Stench by Trish Bennett — BookShelfDiscovery
‘Stench’ is the debut collection from Fermanagh based Poet Trish Bennett. Very much rooted in the border hinterlands, these poems are full of humour, vigour and poignancy.
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
My poem, ‘A Dream of One More Outing’, dedicated to my wonderful mother-in-law, Moira, starts at 9.45 approx. I’ve tried to capture what a trailblazer she was. I’m thrilled that Zöe and Edel ‘got’ what I was trying to say. Thanks for selecting my piece. @arlenhouse.bsky.social
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Ep 02: An Unexpected Parcel
Guest Writer: Edel Coffey. New writing by: Bebe Ashley, Trish Bennet, Jennifer Lindsay Gray.
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Sunday Night, 1st June, RTÉ Radio 1, 7.30pm My gratitude to Edel Coffey and Zöe for this amazing opportunity. This was written during a stint at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre earlier this year. Last photo is my high tech recording studio aka the hot press, or airing cupboard if you’ve notions.
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Katie Donovan @katiedpoet.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I've just signed this petition calling for a domestic abuse register to be put in place in Ireland. This could save lives – will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
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Protect Lives – Create Jennie’s Law: A Domestic Abuse Register for Ireland
I've just signed this petition calling for a domestic abuse register to be put in place in Ireland. This could save lives – will you sign too?
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
There’s a plethora of poets in this wonderful podcast. It can be listened on many platforms. I’m in there, talking about how the stunning beauty of Lough Erne gives me a lift in ‘Sweet Spot’. Thanks to the mighty Damien Donnelly for including me. #poetrydayireland #fermanagh @arlenhouse.bsky.social
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
There’s a plethora of poets in this wonderful podcast. It can be listened on many platforms. I’m in there, talking about how the stunning beauty of Lough Erne gives me a lift in ‘Sweet Spot’. Thanks to the mighty Damien Donnelly for including me. #poetrydayireland #fermanagh @arlenhouse.bsky.social
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thanks to the wonderful Damien D! X
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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street. Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist. Support local, not the billionaires.
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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
My son Luke: "I suffered a life-threatening brain injury...and spent five weeks in a coma. I had to retrain my body to do everything, from moving my fingers to walking....With incredible difficulty and determination, I trained myself to write again. allanhudson.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
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The Story Behind the Story with Author Luke Beirne of Saint John, NB, Canada.
Discover Great Stories. Guest Authors. Interviews. Short Stories. Wall of War. Vigilantes. Jo Naylor. The Alexanders. Father
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
There’s a piece of my mind on the moon! ‘The Stench of Poetry’, the title poem of ‘Stench’, (my debut collection published by @arlenhouse.bsky.social, 2024) is included in the #lunarcodex with the ‘Serenity Archive’, recently landed on the moon. Thanks to @samuelperalta.bsky.social for organising.
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Beautiful
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else" - Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
As rosemantic as I get. I’m missing Himself these days although I’m sure he’s enjoying the peace. 😉#ValentinesDay  #Romance @arlenhouse.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Updated link to Kenny’s here as that one is broken www.kennys.ie/shop/stench-...
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Stench
paperback. Stench is an ebullient celebration of the human, the domestic and the natural world, an invitation to breathe in the myriad and diverse flavours of the poet’s richly lived life, close to t...
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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
News & cover reveal!! Arlen House ‒ Celebrating 50 Years, forthcoming March 2025: My new poetry collection, *Menagerie*. "as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings" ‒ Paula Meehan Cover images #elenaduffart 💚
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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Important thread on imbalance in the arts re. earnings, career longevity, feasibility of being a creative etc. Thanks @oisinmcgann.bsky.social
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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 06/01/2025
What are you doing Sunday 19th Jan at 2pm? Fancy chilling out while three Turas Press poets read from their #poetry collections at Books Upstairs in Dublin 🙏😉 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/a...
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An Afternoon with Turas Press | Books Upstairs
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with three Turas Press writers at 2pm on Sunday 19th January. All are welcome to this event, admission is free but please do reserve a place using the booking form b...
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The Northern Lights in full tilt, lifting the spirits on the first night of 2025 in Fermanagh.
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Bad cess to ‘24, glad to see the back of it. 2025 is feeling sunnier already. Wishing you all a productive year, whatever shenanigans yiz are at. Here’s to lifting the spirits in whatever creative way we can. 🥂📚🎨🎭🖼️
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
’Food Shopping at the Frontier on Christmas Eve’, youtu.be/omonvGZxHYs?...
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Food Shopping at the Frontier on Christmas Eve - Trish Bennett
YouTube video by Trish Bennett Performance
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
‘Food Shopping at the Frontier on Christmas Eve’. Video in comments. Thanks to the wonderful Amy and Paul, from The Bangor Literary Journal for including this madcap poem of mine. All true-ish (ahem) #Fermanagh #Leitrim #Cavan #IrishPoetry @ArlenHouse
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Hang in there my fellow sufferers, it’ll soon be over. Robins by the talented @muddyfingersmcgurn, photo by myself. #christmas #robin #fermanagh #leitrim #notafan
Two cute grumpy pottery robins with Santa hats guarding a sign that says ‘This is as merry as we get’
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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 13/12/2024
🎄Final reminder 🎄 If you fancy taking part in our Christmas at the Storms special episode, I’ll need your audio (up to 5 mins) bio & photo by Tuesday 17 Dec sent to eatthestorms@yahoo.com 🎄
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Wonderful writing. 👏👏👏
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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Because there are just so many amazing writers and publications in Ireland we had to have a spillover starter pack! Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/M7713mj Starter pack II: go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Love this! Lalochezia in action!
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#irishbooksforchristmas
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Stench, my debut poetry collection, is now available to order from Kenny’s in Galway, or from my website. Links below: www.kennys.ie/shop/stench-... trishbennettwriter.com/books/
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Stench
paperback. Stench is an ebullient celebration of the human, the domestic and the natural world, an invitation to breathe in the myriad and diverse flavours of the poet’s richly lived life, close to t...
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Maureen Boyle @boylemo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Laughing out loud at the brilliant Paul Durcan, in prep for ekphrasis class tomorrow. He’s so good it ‘s hard to choose. Want class to read them all! 🖼️📚💚
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Chris Gallagher @photoireland.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
An old aerial photo I took of Derry's Peace Bridge, which I think looks great in black and white #derry #vistderry #vistireland
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Dermot Healy - photo by Dermot Seymour - Crown Bar Belfast 1984
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just a thought, before I turn off the light … and people wonder why I have difficulty sleeping …
A joke - black writing on white paper - the more you weigh the harder you are to kidnap. Stay safe, eat cake
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Colin Barrett #writingquotes #booksky #contemporaryirishwriters
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The secret ambition of all lyric poetry is to stop time. —Charles Simic
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Our gracious overlords …
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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
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Paul Maddern @pmaddern.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I have jury duty during Nov and early Dec so I'm only taking self catering bookings for this period* at www.the-river-mill.co.uk Great rates, though. •Any room, £30.00 per day. • Whole place (5 rooms), £150.00 per day. (*unless circumstances change) [Oh, and screw X.]
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Strong relate
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Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This book. Now more than ever.
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Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Swinging outta the lights … a normal Saturday in our house. #livingwithparrot #africangrey
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