Next Sunday 5 October I'll be reading in Books Upstairs at 2pm alongside some fine poets, do come if you're around town! booksupstairs.ie/all-events/s...

Book 14 of the #SealeyChallenge is actually a journal because this appeared in the post. Excited to read @carolinebracken.bsky.social prize winning pamphlet now from the sample in this

Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.

Irish Poets, the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition is open now. Free to enter, with cash prizes, it's judged by Aifric Mac Aodha. Closing date for entries is 8th September! redlinefestival.ie/events/red-l...

Honoured and delighted to be the featured reader at Lime Square Poets on June 12th! This event is online and completely free 💚 www.limesquarepoets.com/event-detail...

Delighted to share this poem which has been published in the wonderful Ghost Furniture Catalogue. Thanks to @billherbert for giving my work a home.

We’re sad to hear news of the death of Irish poet Paul Durcan, aged 80 - an extraordinary storyteller. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

My thoughts on two new Dante books from the Princeton University Press: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2871 with thanks to David Cooke and The High Window.

Thank you Annemarie Ní Churreáin editor @stingingfly.bsky.social for including 2 of my new poems in Summer 2025 Issue - there's a wealth of fine poetry & fiction to be discovered here as ever. Launch Sat 17th May 8pm Merrion Square @ilfdublin.bsky.social

🎤 Join us at 5pm on Friday 6 June to hear from the rising stars of the poetry world! Find out more and reserve your space (quick, our open mic slots disappear pretty quickly!) at bit.ly/JuneTakeover.

Irish writers please share this amazing opportunity ✍️ Workshoppin' ✍️ Exploring new ways of writing ✍️Learning how to sculpt your work and edit ✍️ Having a geg at the #JHISS! ✍️ Networking with fellow writers and literary peeps! APPLY APPLY APPLY! 👇 johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri…

Galway!! Book launch, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for *Menagerie* & *Washing Windows V* both from Arlen House. All welcome!

‘We need to believe that we can still change things for the better, that there is a point to trying – that there is a point to coming together as communities, to writing poetry. That our writing can express not just problems, but solutions.’ So much love for this piece by @janeburn.bsky.social ❤️

Thrilled to have received my contributor copy of this glorious anthology. The Aftershock Review is an incredible anthology on the after-events of trauma, created by the wonderful @maxwallis.bsky.social So proud to have 3 poems in it! You can purchase it here: www.aftershockreview.com

Good weekend for a walk? From my recent debut collection Rope of Sand, first published in @thespectator1828.bsky.social

www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/w... Happy Poetry Day Ireland, loads of events happening around the country #poetrydayirl @poetryireland.bsky.social

My review of 'Boy, Mother' by Caroline Bracken, winner of the @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 2024 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Prize. everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/04/revi...

Out now: the two amazing winning pamphlets from our 2024 Book & Pamphlet Competition! Order from our website: buff.ly/3EBhU9q Also, keep an ear out for readings from Jen Feroze and Caroline Bracken on our Poetry Bites podcast: buff.ly/42TZdrG @jenferoze.bsky.social @carolinebracken.bsky.social

Tom French's poem The End of January was @irishtimes.com Poem of the Week recently. Tom will be at WCLF for a special @thegallerypress.bsky.social event with Vona Groarke & Aifric Mac Aodha on 13 July 🎟️https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/gallery-goes-to-wclf/ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Hand-cut paper collage assembled out of 206 pieces of paper. #cutpapercollage #analogcollage #collage #collageart #collageartist

Had a wonderful time in Wordsworth Trust Grasmere at the launch of 'Boy, Mother' @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

Absolute pleasure to judge the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2023/24. Here's the three stories on the shortlist: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Ta-dah! Cover reveal for SEABORNE, my Anne Bonny novel out 19th April with #newislandbooks. Pre-orders open soon! Design by Karen Vaughan. I love it 💙

Writing poetry is about discovery. I start with an idea and I think I’m pulling the poem by a leash, but the poem is actually pulling me.

"I have a habit I picked up someplace along the way, whatever works for me, not to give that away so easily y'know" Bob Dylan

Happy New Year! Over 170 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, nonfiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries, etc. - open or with deadlines in January 2024. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

submissions open for new print Anthology " Starman Oddity" poetry & art inspired by David Bowie deadline currently by end of January [email protected] with a bio #poetry #art #davidbowie #music #writingcommunity feversofthemind.com/2023/12/29/u...

Grateful to December Magazine for featuring one of the dream poems and accompanying erasure from a current manuscript.

"Little Prayer" Danez Smith #poetry

Of all the bird site replacements I’ve feverishly joined and then eventually drifted away from, in hindsight the one I probably enjoyed the most was Mastodon for its #VerseThursday tag. Every Thursday, post a poem you like. That’s it – a simple joy. So here’s ’Kingfisher Haibun’ by Dylan Brennan.

📢 END OF MONTH SUBMISSIONS ALERT!! 📢 28 literary journals, competitions and opps closing by 1 Jan incl. Channel Magazine, Granta, Poetry Now Review. The Moth Poetry Prize, Ropes, Fawn Press & more. Don't miss out! wp.me/p4bX9D-21a

The Poetry Society are here! @poetrysociety.bsky.social

On Thursday 16th November at Books Upstairs, I'll be chatting to Diarmuid Hester about his book Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories. booksupstairs.ie/all-events/n...

Last week’s Westival winning poem. Thank you, Westport. markfiddes.com/2023/10/28/o... #poetry

dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter... still tickets available for @winterpapers.bsky.social launch on 11 November

Many thanks to the judges for selecting my poem 'History Baked in a Hot Oven' as the winner of the Kinship competition. Details of anthology below.