'Do not stand at my grave and weep'...

Congratulations to Dean Browne, who has just been announced as the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2026. Read all about it: ow.ly/eM6150ZgajQ A huge well done, Dean, from all of us here at Queen's. 🙌

Perhaps you'd like to hear the Odyssey read by Batman's robot butler

Warmest congratulations to my pal, the incomparable @deanbrowne.bsky.social. His is a collection like no other, and it's sublime to see it reach these magnificent and deserved heights. A book of singular imaginative vision and craft - long may After Party reign.

I don't have infallible judgement, but I chose "After Party" by @deanbrowne.bsky.social as one of my Sunday Times Books of 2025 - and I know how much Dean deserves this prize.

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Dreamt a friend of mine had written Pink Floyd's Hey You but the lyrics were a little different in the dream. Hey you With shaving cream on your nose Can you hear me Etc

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

'Jimmy Fear, Chief Executive of Death'. I'm almost certain I misheard the radio over the sound of my cooking but I want to believe

Come join us @cuirtfestival.bsky.social in April! www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/poe...

Just really enjoying the world of @deanbrowne.bsky.social ‘s After Party. Confident strokes drawing a very emotionally “true”otherworldliness. #amreading

From @deanbrowne.bsky.social's wonderful debut, "After Party." @picadorbooks.bsky.social #Irish #Irishpoetry #donegal #gametheory #wizarding

Late 30s. My grandfather Laurence bottom left. My great grandfather John top left. My great great grandfather Laurence next to him

NEW on our website | Ellen Orchard reviews 2025 Irish poetry collections: 🍙Morsels by Susanna Galbraith @machapress.bsky.social 🏝️The Oasis by Charles Lang @skeinpress.bsky.social 🎈After Party by Dean Browne (Picador Poetry) 💧Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke (Gallery Press)

remember Catherine O Hara tonight by folding some broken cheese

Catherine O’Hara we love you get up

from St John's Famine graveyard back home

Delighted that @deanbrowne.bsky.social is joining UCC School of English and Digital Humanities as Arts Council Writer in Residence for 2026 www.ucc.ie/en/english/n...

delighted to see After Party reviewed in The High Window! thehighwindowpress.com/2025/12/14/t...

Stoppard all the clocks

This year as writer in residence at UCC has been an absolute joy, and before I head off into the sunset I'm reading at this fundraiser for Gaza go Bragh at UCC Library, organised by the mighty Nell Korben on December 10th. Tickets at link in comments. Bígi linn, saoirse don phalaistín 🇵🇸

Great to see the tour de force that is After Party by @deanbrowne.bsky.social in today's Sunday Times.

A joy to see After Party is one of The Times six poetry collections of the year!

On Wednesday @ucc.ie are hosting an amazing FREE event w/ poets @deanbrowne.bsky.social & @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social. Dean's debut collection After Party is published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social and Rosamund's verse novel Filly by @bansheepress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/poets-dean...

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025, 6pm Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, the Hub, UCC Tickets: Free at Eventbrite

Take them to the peachtree dance

Dublin and adjacent, I'll be launching After Party in Books Upstairs on Wednesday! With the brilliant Tom Morris

Enjoying @deanbrowne.bsky.social ‘s After Party very much

Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social (@picadorbooks.bsky.social) and Eilish Martin (@machapress.bsky.social) are this year's poets for the John Hewitt Birthday Reading Oct 27th Tickets selling well. www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/joh...

Dean Browne (@deanbrowne.bsky.social)

“The bogs, rivers, mountains, and shorelines are more than preservers of old myths, bones, and memories. They are energy banks and time sponges, and what is held within them seeks release.” ― Manchán Magan, Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us

'August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.' Kafka

lovely notice for After Party here in The Telegraph!

I'm delighted to be judging this year's Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition! Get your glorious poems in munsterlit.ie/odonoghue-co... @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Up Tipp!

ain't no Houellebecq, girl ain't no Houellebecq

Seems as good a day as any of late to read this poem from Leontia Flynn’s collection, Radio, for the first time.

If you happen to have read the little book, please consider leaving a rating/review here www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Poetry by TLM Poetry Prize 2025 Winners: Kevin Graham, @deanbrowne.bsky.social and Batool Abu Akleen, as well as Michaela Coplen, Mai Serhan, Edward Limb, Serena Alagappan, @victoriaspires.bsky.social, Luke Dunne and @fiddes.bsky.social. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

delighted to share the cover for my collection After Party, published by Picador in September!

Bill Knott

an honour and a pleasure to chat with Maurice Riordan at the Cork International Poetry Festival

delighted that my poem, 'Monk and the Porpoise', was chosen as one of the winners of this prize. Thanks to the judges and hearty congrats to all

we're gonna get zero sheets to the wind baby

I felt like I was having a stroke reading this article from @echolive.bsky.social. 😵‍💫

Joseph Brodsky

with extra rubbish, yes