Submissions to PB12, the 12th edition of our poetry magazine, are now open. Please send up to 3 poems as an attachment with no identifying info to [email protected] Put you name in the body of the email. Many thanks and please share!

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Doisneau.

For all you lovelorn out there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lTV...

Cordite felicitations to one and all!

Or both? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXF9...

Incredible images.

Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?

She spoke up for Palestine. Kudos.

Insomniacs. Stop wondering why you can't sleep and start questioning why they can.

Okay, my ardent followers who have been troubled wondering what to get me for Christmas; your troubles are over.

Do you have a music or book lover in your life? We have the perfect gift for culture vultures who love world class artistic experiences in beautiful settings! Gift vouchers available for our 3 festivals @westcorkmusic.bsky.social Literary Festival & Masters of Tradition westcorkmusic.ie/giftvouchers

Turner Prize 2024 Jasleen Kaur youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY?...

Spoofers. Sophistry.

Tooth, Nail. Fighting while there is breath the cloistered Irish poetry scene. Class, belonging, fitting. Knowing, deep, stubborn, fuck them, fucking that shit, refusing to stop if going on is the tiniest grain rubbing in the soft shoe of their safe smug glug of gorgeous.

What a line up, Fran Lock, Bobby Parker, Al Hutchins! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/culture-ma...

@poetrybuspress.bsky.social Welcome, Poetry Bus! I feel like I took this picture forever ago

So I walked as day was dawning where small birds sang and leaves were falling where we once watched the rowboats landing on the broad majestic Shannon.

Added a few more, including the wonderful @ninearchespress.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social and @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Bus Stop in Paris, Photo by Roger Schall, 1930s

No plans for Monday night? Now you do - get yer skates on and get down to Hammersmith we have Neil Jordan, one of Ireland’s great filmmakers in discussion on his memoir. Tonight, 7.30, tix on door / online: irishlitsoc.org/event/neil-j...

In case anyone else is feeling the urge to read more Fran Lock... thepoetrybuspress.onlineweb.shop

Many congratulations to Manchester City on their five in a row.

Hi Bluesky, we're a radical publishing collective and events curator based in South London. We run an online journal called theHythe. Follow us for poetry, fiction, and essays that prioritise radical, anti-colonial, anti-racist, late modernist voices! #booksky #indiepress #indiebooks

I am so very pleased to have a poem included in this amazing anthology - I went to the launch just to listen to the other readers and it was all so wondeful. Here is my poem x

‘the horror film. (—a dream. ... ).’ (Oct. 2019)— I was very pleased to have a new #experimental #prose-#poetry piece out, in-with @poetrybuspress.bsky.social: #8 thepoetrybusmag.wixsite.com/change #writing #WritingCommunity

Absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response to my Poetry Community Starter Pack. Thank you all so much. I’m trying to add people as fast as I can, so please be patient if you haven’t yet had a response. So many fab poets, presses & lit mags to explore! #PoetsOnBluesky #Poetry go.bsky.app/HkRFQHo

My collection The Colour of Extinction is Poetry Book of the Month in the Observer. With a great review. Stuart #poetry @howfashionating.bsky.social

We are very excited that our publication, Hyena! by Fran Lock is on the PEN Heaney Prize shortlist! Well done to all involved. www.englishpen.org/prizes/pen-h...

Happy publication to all our wonderful contributors! Best British Short Stories 2024 is available now! 🥳🎉🥂 Buy now: www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

Interesting artistic project by artist Patrick Murphy and poet Ian McMillan on the changing language around mental health, inspired by interviews talking about Sheffield’s old Middlewood Mental Hospital. For Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind 2024. youtu.be/gFeVXRIrJcM?...

Thanks Ian McMillan for hosting us on BBC R4 The Verb. I read from & chatted about My Hummingbird Father & Beast, Alan Connor had 188 words for rain! Deryn Rees Jones read #FleurAdcock’s neon line & her own, Isy Suttie sang fireworks & we kind of joined in! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Delighted to have a poem in this fantastic looking issue of @CrannogM

NLI marks acquisition of Paul Durcan Archive www.nli.ie/news-stories...

I have written a new Substack article on my project, 'The University of the Self', if anyone would like to read it. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Tonight our event with Martina Devlin on Charlotte Brontë and Ireland at the marvellous Art Workers’ Guild, just off Russell Sq, should be fascinating. Come along: irishlitsoc.org/event/charlo...