We are delighted to present our first Insights Masterclass of the year, presented by our Poet in Residence, Sean Borodale. 'Finding Lightning in the Unlikely' explores how a poem starts, and what to do when it does. 📅Wed 3 June 🕔6:30-8:30PM 💻Online 🎫€20 🔗Book: www.poetryireland.ie/news-events/...

Today's hike was on the Slieve Bloom Way. Spent some time in the company of this 200-year-old beech.

Please join us to celebrate Dublin-born writer Elizabeth Bowen on her birthday weekend, in Dublin 💗

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize! ⭐ Isabelle Baafi ⭐ Dean Browne ⭐ Sasha Debvec-McKenny ⭐ Catherine-Esther Cowie ⭐ Laura Wainwright www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

Get waterfording folks!

I'm loving this chapbook from the wonderful @leggettbohan.bsky.social Available from @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Next Saturday, the great Irish Cubist Mary Swanzy is being honoured in Dublin. A plague will placed on the house she was born in at 23 Merrion Square. L: The White Tower, c.1926 R: Cubist Landscape with Red Pagoda and Bridge, 1925-1930

Sunday 24 May at 6pm @poetrybuspress.bsky.social launch Paul Victor Tims’s Infohazzard, with readings from PB12 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/warning-in...

We Fall We Carry! Epic day at Cork International Poetry Fest @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

It’s Superposition’s one year birthday! I’m forever grateful to the @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social, and CANT WAIT to hear this year’s winners read tomorrow at 3pm at Cork Arts Theatre — especially Roisin Leggett Bohan reading from We Fall We Carry!

Friday! I'm wondering what happened to Wednesday and Thursday. I've been revising poems, so maybe that accounts for the blank.

Five Days to Go ✒️ We are currently accepting submissions of fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry for our Winter 2026-27 issue until May 20th, 5pm. Poets writing in the Irish language are invited to submit their work for the Comhchealg section of the magazine. stingingfly.org/submissions/

Our Summer 2026 issue is now available to order on our website 🌞 Thanks to all our contributors for trusting us with their words, and to our brilliant editorial team for putting together another magnificent magazine issue✨ Orders will be sent out May 18th onwards📮 stingingfly.org/product/summ...

Looking forward to reading at Cork City Library tomorrow at 2.30 pm at the Prebooked Introductions as part of Cork Poetry Festival thanks to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

My award-winning chapbook 'We Fall We Carry' has landed. The official launch is at #corkinternationalpoetryfestival on Saturday the 16th of May at 3pm. It would be lovely to see you there. 🩶 @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Submissions open for Rochford Street Review’s 2026 Bloomsday Supplement. Closing date 31 May 2026 rochfordstreetreview.com/2026/05/13/s...

You'll have to forgive my singing, but this song is Lol's favourite.

Wrapped up Atwood’s 'A Life of Sorts' (audiobook). Loved the mix of wild childhood freedom and early writerly certainty. Her narration takes a minute to find its groove, but once it does, her dry humour really lifts off.

In the garden today - hawthorn blossom & fern.

And it is launched! 🌕 🌊 Delighted to hold ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’ in my hand. 💫✨ @thegallerypress.bsky.social

Submit! Don't be tardy!

In the garden today.

In the garden today.

It all kicks off tomorrow! Are you ready?!? The #AnnualWaterfordCompetition2026 opens tomorrow! Visit waterfordrhyme.com for info. #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme

I'm so happy to announce my first (and last) new and selected, with fifty years of work and twenty-two new poems! What a journey this has been. The book will be published in September and is ready for pre-order now.

Counting down the days… 4!

So sad to hear this.

We'll be at the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast on Thursday for our Elixir launch. There's groovy exhibitions on too. And it's Late Night Art! Hope to see you there. @su-anna.bsky.social @goldenthreadni.bsky.social

I've introduced some new mentoring packages, as of Spring 2026. Get in touch for more info: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/

Couldn't stomach eating an unripe kiwi fruit at breakfast, left it on the chopping board and it accidentally ended up in the pot of boiled potatoes. Boiled kiwi fruit is simply scrumptious 😋 Try it!

The rules for our exciting 2026 Short Story Award judged by the wonderful Donal Ryan are now live! Get prepared for this. Submissions open soon! www.frazzledlit.com/p/frazzled-l...

A cowslip day. Brings back memories of the May altar.

Only 1 week to wait!

What a stunning cover!

Writing competitions www.kenmareartsfestival.com/poets-meet-p...

Delighted to have a poem on the @poetrylondon.bsky.social website ✨ The poem is from my debut collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, @thegallerypress.bsky.social Launching on 7th May 🌕 🌊 Huge thanks to Editor Niall Campbell 🙏 poetrylondon.co.uk/bee-orchids-...

British army soldiers ‘overreacted’ and lost control’, inquest into shooting dead of five people in Belfast finds. A priest, three teenagers and a man in his 30s were murdered by British soldiers in the Springhill and Westrock areas of west Belfast in July 1972 www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

My cotributor's copy arrived today. 'Abridged' is alive in the true sense: its format mutates, never settling, never standardised, always surprising. @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Thanks!

A date for the diary:

It’s going to be a busy week in Cork from Monday 11th May. Cork LGBTI+Awareness Week 2026 starts on the 11th and the Cork International Poetry Festival which starts on 12th. For all the details on these events go to www.corkcity.ie/lgbti and wwwmunsterlit.ie #corkevents #poetry #cityofwelcomes

This is a superb chapbook from @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social Delighted to hear her read from it at Speak your Truth in Waterford.

Hiking in Tintern Woods I came across a fallen beech the OPW refused to give up on. They built a tiny bridge over its trunk and let it grow. A whole path shaped around one living thing. A small but powerful symbol of human goodness.

Those aged under 35 also score highest for reading for pleasure, with 83% reading at least one genre in 2025, compared to 73% of all adults surveyed. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

This morning's hike in Tintern woods was a feast for the senses. It's up there with the top trails I've walked. Well done OPW.