Some of the replies here belong in the museum of hubris

Really pleased to be included in the @renardpress.com anthology, celebrating five years of the prese #poetry

Read all about the new issue here. Drops Nov 28th. Interviews, poems, poetry. Last subs day Sunday if you want a print copy on the day of release. #newissue #news #stars #coverreveal themadridreview.com/f/rushdie-ho...

Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut

Wrong on so many levels…

Friend walked into a pub in Cork with a huge army greatcoat on, old lad at bar perked up and exclaimed: "COMRADE! WHAT NEWS FROM STALINGRAD!?"

Please performatively read my novel.

Sidney Herbert Sime ‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911 archive.org/details/gods...

Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.

Had a dream in which @minxmarple.bsky.social demanded to meet my parents, who, since being long dead, had to be "conjured" back to life, after which I sent a car to the cemetery to pick them up. When they finally met her, they assumed because of her accent that she was a member of the royal family.👑

"Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago." "Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter."

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

12 HUNGRY MEN (2025)

I’m jealous of a volcano’s 700,000 year lie-in.

He actually does know me!

Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is." And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"

This lovely mag's latest issue launches today at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin

I think online friendships can be really profound and meaningful, esp for misfits who may have trouble finding their people irl

Just published in Broken Spine scflynn.com/2025/10/29/u... #poetry

Unfinished Poem Sandymount Strand, Dublin All this will be washed away by rising sea and frequent storms. Before retreating to self-reliance, I want to find the words to preserve a shrinking world; language is a slender thread that can briefly connect secret lives before fading into silence. Maybe…

Ayurveda Nothing real will ever be enough. The ancient dream of immortality has fluttered against unbreakable glass for a thousand lifetimes without getting in; countless hopes lie buried in separate graves, and yet it still persists. Humanity, always caught in the grip of the present when it…

My poem "Ayurveda" just published in The @eatthestorms.com; a lovely edition with very nice artwork! #poetry

Please kill me

Take a look at Renard's list of titles, both classic and contemporary, all very nicely produced! #books

Woohoo! An absolutely delicious mention of The Call in USA Today by the author A. Rushby: "Technically young adult, it’s far more frightening than any adult book I’ve ever read." I'll take it! There are lots of great spooky season recs in the original article: eu.usatoday.com/story/entert...

couplets therapy

I found £100 in a pair of shorts I hadn’t fitted into since before lockdown 💪

"You, boy! Is your opinion UNHINGED?"

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

An unhinged literary opinion needs to be like Muriel Spark believing T.S. Eliot was sending her coded messages through his plays, not 'hear me out, I don't like Dickens'. That is simply a literary opinion. The hinges are very much intact.

you should be able to view a trailer of the night's dreams before deciding whether to sleep or not

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

48% of Ireland's waterbodies are so polluted, contaminated with chemicals, choked with algae, deprived of oxygen, lacking in species variety or physically altered and damaged that they fail to meet minimally acceptable standards. And it's getting worse. share.google/UVKmPRvgmnDA...

Do you guys have any hinged literary opinions?!

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

Science!

Watching the Two Ronnies and that bloke who's in charge of Argentina has turned up.

- you boy, wait, where are you going? - I'll be back

sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

Just typical anti-frog propaganda from the Toadygraph. And to think they used to be a newtspaper

A conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven. God says, “I’ll tell you anything you want to know.” “At last! Who shot JFK?” God says, “Oswald, acting alone.” Conspiracy theorist says, “Shit. This goes even higher than I thought…”

at my highest patreon tier you never hear from me again

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...