Fuente del Quixote in Chapultepec is inspired by a similar structure in Seville. This is a refurbished version as the sculptures have been robbed more than once. Diego Rivera as Sancho and Dalí as the mad knight. Used to function as a library. See the bookshelves. Books were stored in the hut.

Reminded today that I once had a discussion with an Irish writer about what other films could have or should have ended similarly to a certain Villeneuve flick. My winning suggestion was Manhattan.

Teotihuacán, 2012. 120mm film, plastic lens cam.

How stunning is this @bansheepress.bsky.social cover! And how exciting is the thought of a new collection from Billy Ramsell. Billy joins us for a morning of poetry at WCLF on 11 July alongside @mollytwomey.bsky.social and @deanbrowne.bsky.social. Tickets at link in our bio

Busy week ahead! I'll be at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social tomorrow and Weds, at @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social on Thurs and then off to rep @bansheepress.bsky.social at the @poetrysociety.bsky.social Free Verse Book Fair. If you're in Galway, Cork or London come say hi 👋

If you're in Galway for the mighty @cuirtfestival.bsky.social this week, be sure to catch @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social in conversation with @anthonyshapland.bsky.social at the Mick Lally Theatre tomorrow at 1pm! 🎟️ www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/que...

Olympic stadium at dawn.

Dappled Jarmusch posters. More Tom Waits this week than I’d expected.

Another refreshing bit of rainfall. 🌎

After the storm.

Before the storm.

‘Writing allows me to face what is happening now. And what is happening now is that I’m dying’ As the poet Gabriel Rosenstock faces up to his own mortality, poetry and philosophy are sustaining him www.independent.ie/irish-news/w...

White prickly poppies 🌎

Pigott Poetry Prize shortlist announced. Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Yellow trumpetbush 🌎

Roadside cactus, Tamaulipas 🌎

Orquideario, Chapultepec

Overnight bus 🚌 🌄

Carnival

The artwork on the front cover of our WCLF 2026 brochure will be Seán Keating's The Window (1924). We ADORE it and would like to thank everyone in @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social, IVARO (Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation) and the estate of Seán Keating ❤️ crawfordartgallery.ie/work-of-the-...

Learn more about Troubled Lands (out now!) and Langston Hughes's work as a translator in this @literaryhub.bsky.social piece:

Come join us on April 23! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Getting in the mood for parade.

That time Ronnie Drew was nearly driven mad by a parrot in Dublin zoo

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Much of what Minister O'Sullivan is aiming to achieve, like seriously culling deer in national parks, is very welcome. But why are we still not offering farmers the option of being paid to rewild? Good for farmers, nature, the climate, tourism, the economy... *everyone*. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The cathedral at night.

Out early

CDMX

Spring

Galleys of my new book of poems, coming soon from Veer2.

❤️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

*New Green Fool* by Alan Cunningham, published by Gorse Editions: A book of quiet beauty that circles Irishness without trying to possess it...To be a “new green fool” is not to adopt a persona but to accept a condition: to live without false settlement: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

In No Alibis this evening celebrating the great Tim MacGabhann and his new poetry collection - out now from @bansheepress.bsky.social

RIP Robert Duvall. It’s not quite accurate to say he attended my graduation party but I might keep saying it. I stumbled upon a darkened dining area in the Shelbourne. There he was, dining with a woman. He gave me a nod that seemed to say yes it’s me, nice to see you but leave me the hell alone.

I just signed this. Feel free to sign and share. It's very close to the 7,000 signatures target. Ireland should not play UEFA games against Israel. my.uplift.ie/petitions/fa... @uplift.ie

Dublin, we are launched. Huge congrats to Tim MacGabhann on this gorgeous collection & to @booksupstairs.bsky.social for hoating us. Found in a Context of Destruction is available from all good bookshops & from @bansheepress.bsky.social Next stop Belfast - Thurs 19th at No Alibis!

It's getting to that time of night on Valentine's Day: To send me blue valentines like half-forgotten dreams Like a pebble in my shoe as I walk these streets And the ghost of your memory, baby, it's the thistle in the kiss It's the burglar that can break a rose's neck www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsw0...

“As a whole it might be understood as the final flare of an aurora borealis that once seemed nearly permanent, & unassailable, in its rich, revelatory shining.” Ciarán O’Rourke reviews 'Namanlagh' by Tom Paulin cassandravoices.com/culture/lite... @faberbooks.bsky.social @irishlittimes.bsky.social

I can’t be there but if you can go… you should go.

It's here! The debut collection of poems from acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann! These poems chart the course of addiction and recovery, contemplating the injuries a body can sustain, and what joys we find in these darker spaces in friendship, music, and community. @bansheepress.bsky.social 🥰

Happy publication day to Found in a Context of Destruction, the debut collection of poems from acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann. Available now in all good bookshops or from the Banshee Press website 🖤 bansheepress.org/shop/p/found...

It's something I'm hugely proud of artistically, and in moments like this, socially. If I do not much else, I've done that. bansheepress.org/shop/p/pacem...

“…what will the cops smell like this morning…” Tim MacGabhann’s poetry collection from @bansheepress.bsky.social is a rare work that is actually NEEDED badly in times like these. And on the level of the line, really original and fresh.

📗Read an extract from Filly, by Rosamund Taylor— a novel in verse about sexual awakening, masochistic love, and the transformative possibilities of community 📗@bansheepress.bsky.social @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/an-extract-f...

Today we remember Michael Longley, one of Ireland's foremost poets, on his one year anniversary. We were delighted to include his previously unpublished poem 'The Elling Woman' in Poetry Ireland Review 146, edited by Stephen Sexton last summer.