Very much looking forward to June 17th in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social in Dublin. Tell your (Dublin or Dublin-adjacent) friends. Deepest thanks to @junec.bsky.social and @davidcollard.bsky.social for helping me with this. And many thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Just published in A Thin Slice of Anxiety: The Death of the Future scflynn.com/2026/03/16/t... #poetry

In May 2024 a Yellow-crowned Night Heron was discovered in western Ireland village of Belcarra, 1000s of stormy transatlantic 🌊 miles from its American home. Named Lorrie in honour of its local discoverer, Lorraine Ryan-Jennings, it inspired tourists, art and poetry 1/3 🧵

Its very own poem... 2/3 bsky.app/profile/scyf...

Wonderful. 💙💙 We know a poem about that Heron bsky.app/profile/scyf... @scyflynn.bsky.social

Suprematism https://www.wikiart.org/en/kazimir-malevich/suprematism-1915-3

why do nerds suddenly appear every time I post here

I’m very glad that Best Son is having a great ski day, but this very loud, stuffy, and overcrowded ski lodge is grating and the horrendous cover band is causing my brain to shrivel. In short, I’m having a hard time entertaining myself … Ask me odd questions?

Eating so much meat and dairy that my nutrition app tells me to go lite with some whiskey, neat

scflynn.com/2026/02/14/p... Iceberg poem just published in Antipodes

Plausibly Blue Australian Antarctic Territory, midsummer Under the frozen anaemia of summer,the still air smells like dry gods melting.The iceberg hides its whiteness in this blue,hoarding the red light like dragon’s jewelsand letting go the violet rays;if it could hold those fast as well,the…

Just published in Antipodes #poetry

'A more vibrant arts sector brought myriad benefits such as greater economic activity, improved mental wellbeing, critical thinking and innovation...' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Learn to ode.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

McGonagall's life is ripe to be made into a slapstick comedy

Just reading about the incredible things William McGonagall got up to

Two guards stand either side of the door. One likes big butts and cannot lie. One likes big butts and cannot tell the truth.

For those joining Bluesky from the Bad Place: welcome. Yes, you could/should have made the decision sooner, but it is never too late to make a good decision. And there is a lot on this site which will remind you of the Bad Place before it was bad.

Buddy, hope left the building, went to lunch, had 4 margaritas and a bloody mary, got into a fight with the server, was tossed through a window, severed an artery, had its leg amputated, spent three nights in ICU, got divorced, defaulted on the mortgage, and is living in a van down by the river

“These are the hard ribs Of a body that our prayers have failed To animate.” So good.

Happy New Year from me (and from Philebus)

Official now: people who used to vote Labour should vote Green at the next election so as not to split the left

Merry Christmas, everyone!

at that was King's Lynn Sausage Miracle,

Everyone who drinks coffee has at some point wondered whether they could brew a pot of coffee using coffee instead of water. The ones who actually did it, found themselves magically transported to 5th century Finland

I love idea that he has a unique blindness to cakes and other things. That if you say "buy me something sweet" he might come home with a loaf of bread and some nails.

my daughter used to call every bird she saw "Duck". And why not? 28 years old she was

My other half is pushing me to go to the doctors to investigate my insomnia. I don't have insomnia, I just stay up stupidly late because that's the only time where I don't have a man/child/dog/cat/parent/friend bothering me for stuff and I can read/sew/play games in peace.

“Why do you write poetry?” To make a gazillion dollars in order to fly to the moon and kiss her rocky face

If only we knew then what we knew then

Isn't it a lovely day to get lost in a maze

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

MOSAIC G2 scflynn.com/2025/12/11/m... Published in New Word Order #poetry

MOSAIC G2 scflynn.com/2025/12/11/m... Published in New Word Order #poetry

End of term. Students: get your washing done! #laundry #education #edchat #HigherEd

Just saw a photo of Anselm Kiefer’s 2024 work >>Becoming the Sea "Missouri, Mississippi”<< and immediately had this gut-punch thought, „Damn, you know it’s bad when Kiefer starts painting shit about your own country.”

More Winter poems for this cold Thursday morning. This one by Georg Trakl Winter Night Black frost. ... Bitter snow and moon

"Waiting for - Anything at All"

Today’s @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social restored bruised faith in the books industry. Passionate people, labours of love. And I finally got hold of longtime mutual @scyflynn.bsky.social’s book direct from Will at @renardpress.com, and met the man himself!

Superman listening to Free Jazz in his Fortress of Solitude

Rowing out to a middle of a lake in Scotland to pick up a watertight package containing 10 new copies of "Conversations with Friends"

The new issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social is out today - featuring my poem 'Before the End' and a formidable lineup of brilliant writing. Check it out!

Somebody just liked me on a dating app and then asked me to review his book. I am aghast.

scflynn.com/2025/11/26/o... Just published in @rochfordstreview.bsky.social #poetry

One-Time Code The sky is a broken plate, pale and crueland lightning scratches oblivion’s face. Each step in this funeral processionis a shadow leading to a heart of silence. Old people watch like portraits in a vacuuma future they never thought would arrive. Butterflies of a forgotten…

rochfordstreetreview.com/2025/11/27/o... Just published in @rochfordstreview.bsky.social #poetry