An honour to be included in this beautiful anthology of poetry! Well done again @jaxxi.bsky.social

Lucy Holme,

It is people like @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social who help get through this muddled place of doing a creative writing PhD. Thank you, Lucy. You made me feel a lot better 🩷

The skirt still reminds me of the brilliant @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social’s gorgeous books 🩷

Some favourites - this spread with @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social and @katewakeling.bsky.social

This is amazing thank you @wendycaitlin.bsky.social 💙

"At the end of the day, I come back to something Ellen Bryant Voigt once told me, that poetry is not the transcription of experience but the transformation of it." Carl Phillips

Incredibly excited to be launching my new collection of essays in Waterstones Cork on April 15th with @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social I’ve always dreamed of having a launch in my favourite bookshop and now it’s happening. Please mark the date and come along ❤️

For those in Cork, this sounds good! Some great writers here. Check it out.

Join me for this workshop as part of brilliant new initiative The Poets Library from Kemi George Simpson starting this Saturday at Cork City Library. Link to sign up below ✍️ eventbrite.ie/e/the-poets-li…

Well this is very exciting news.

Grateful to be collaborating with one of my favourite poets & human beings @minorroarr.bsky.social on an exciting project from dynamic new press @dialectwriters.bsky.social Our pamphlet exploring place, language, travel & connection arrives in September✨ www.dialect.org.uk/blog/vasilik...

So happy to be able to say I am now represented by Olivia Davies from @unitedagents.bsky.social for my writing 💙 www.unitedagents.co.uk/lucy-holme

absolutely loving @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social 's 'Blue Diagonals'- stunning writing taking me places both inner and outer with its beauty and insight- thank you 💙💫

€1,500 gets us to target. Shares are amazing, donations, for the DSPCA and @unicefireland.bsky.social's Gaza and Lebanon appeal, are amazing, if you can xxx www.gofundme.com/f/therickosh...

Looking for recommendations for people’s ‘funniest’ poems. Not limericks or comedy verse but poems that contemplate doubt, grief, tragedy with humour thinking Natalie Shapero, Mark Waldron, Paul Muldoon etc thanks 🙏

an expendable character in the comedy of your life Scott McKendry, ‘All I Want’s My Goose Back’

I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live — Nikki Giovanni 🖤🙏🏾

I made a starter pack of some poets on Bluesky go.bsky.app/VsG51ms

Love the place where a nonfiction essay collection meets memoir? Buy Lucy’s beautiful book 👇

Maybe poems are just complications & yet you can't resist a little still life lit with grief & wonder. —Violeta Garcia-Mendoza

An extract from ‘A Sprig of a Fruited Olive’ first published in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and part of Blue Diagonals, on the @rte culture page this morning 🔭💙 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

Very happy to have two poems in this brilliant journal thanks to editors John McAuliffe, Paul Knowles and Joe Hunter

The Manchester Review is proud to launch Issue 26 today. 'This new edition is an eclectic goody-bag that showcases a wide range of genres, styles and perspectives and contains writing from well-established, upcoming, and first-time writers.' www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

Was such a great last ACE memoir class of the semester today and my brilliant students gave me a thank you gift of ‘Tidings’ from @lilliputpress.bsky.social which I can’t wait to read. On request at the end I read ‘I have always valued a checklist above all other things’ from Blue Diagonals 💙

The poet, like the onion, does not care who cries.

If anybody would like to buy a copy of my new nonfiction collection Blue Diagonals directly from me please DM me and I can post it to you. Also if anyone would like to review it let me know 💙🔭 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

A few things some writers I really admire had to say about my new nonfiction collection Blue Diagonals from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... @eimearryan.bsky.social @cristinleach.bsky.social

#PoetsOnBluesky My 5 for today are @jlmmorton.bsky.social @minorroarr.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social @ianduhig.bsky.social @victoriachang.bsky.social

Again, amazing new things in the post... Pankaj Mishra's upcoming and hugely anticipated The World After Gaza, Lucy Holme's newly published prose debut Blue Diagonals, and a gorgeous new Rough Trade edition of the text from Max Porter's short film All Of This Unreal Time...

So happy and excited to have won the Southword Editor’s Award for Poetry this year. Thanks to the Munster Literature Centre 🙏

Charity shop treasure #corkcity #michaellongley #louismacneice #faberbooks

Over 140 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, nonfiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2024. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

9. “Temporary Stasis” by @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social. Published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social.

Gorgeous morning talking to ACE UCC creative nonfiction students in Bishopstown Library, Cork about Negative Space and From Ten till Dusk. So many insightful comments and responses, and brilliant questions. Thank you course tutor extraordinaire @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social for snapping sneaky pic.

I’m delighted to be in truly excellent company on the shortlist for the Red Line Festival Poetry Award. To be considered alongside @martinadalton.bsky.social and @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social is a lovely encouragement!

Our team has made its nominations for the 2024 Best of the Net. Congratulations to each of these talented writers/poets. @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @avramargariti.bsky.social @jaredpovanda.bsky.social @louisenorgate.bsky.social @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social @gretchenfilart.bsky.social

I’m slowly grabbing Irish writers and arts journalists by the jacket sleeves and pulling them over here. The brilliant @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social has flown in. And go follow newly arrived @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social too.