The underlying message of trans girls being banned from guides for "safeguard" reasons is that only segregation can keep women and girls safe from "biological men" and it must start in childhood. It's such puritan regression from ideas on deconstructing rape culture, toxic masculinity and #MeToo

Fun times at The Poetry Lounge at Waterford Gallery of Art today with @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social & Eithne Lannon. Big thanks to the brilliant Ger Duffy for organising!

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

So delighted that the news is out! Big congrats @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Step one: colonise half the planet Step two: steal their art Step three: charge them entry to see it

This. After the Ballinrobe parade float debacle, I saw lots of men saying 'at least it keeps Epstein in the news'. When I said to one, an elderly man hugging his grandson in his profiler, that a parade float with men simulating rape isn't the way to do this, he told me I was too ugly to be raped. ✨️

This ruling is so grim and unkind. I don't really understand why guides/scouts are segregated in any case. It's retrograde and weird and this ruling just furthers that.

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

It's #Irish #Book Day! (aka my favorite day of the year.) Today with @solasnuadc.bsky.social & @bansheepress.bsky.social at the @heurichhouse.bsky.social until 6 or whenever books run out. Choose between poetry and short stories.

Today's listing of the day is: Banshee: A Literary Journal @bansheepress.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Looking forward to reading at this on the 28th ✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Evil weapons boss vows to destroy women's rights is a bit on the nose even for 2026.

Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan

Lovely review of MacGabhann’s debut poetry collection ‘Feels as though we are accessing the thoughts of a particularly erudite friend’

We're thrilled that RENDER by Billy Ramsell, forthcoming from Banshee Press in June, has been recommended by the Poetry Book Society in their Summer Selections, curated by Victoria Kennefick, Fred D'Aguiar, Leo Boix, Alycia Pirmohamed and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/a...

Really looking forward to the Dublin launch of #FewAndFarBetween April 9th @booksupstairs.bsky.social with the lovely @neilhegarty.bsky.social Tickets are free but please book in advance following this wee link booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

Render proofs are out in the world! So excited for us to share this brilliantly inventive collection with you all ✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

Many pre-releases in the post! From @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social: @janicehallett.bsky.social Death at the Museum From Penguin: Lauryn Hamilton Murray, Tides of Fortune Laure Eve, Alecto Gray Will Hunt You Down From @bansheepress.bsky.social: Billy Ramsell, Render From @theobrienpress.bsky.social: >>

Send me your poems! ✨️

Inhaling @jesstraynor.bsky.social ‘s New Arcana. And this poem… I have no words. Will return to Magpie (among others) regularly. I used to read tarot in my early 20s and got self conscious about engaging with mystery. This collection feels like an old friend. #amreading

A little sample from Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann for your Friday evening ✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

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

Once more: Omar El Akkad: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." Bono: Have you heard my new EP

Belfast friends we are headed your way on Thursday - would be lovely to see you there ✨️

A few more pics from last night 🌙 ✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

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!

Join us in a raft of exotic locations (Dublin! Belfast! 🌴) this week and next to launch Tim's marvellous debut✨️

“…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.

Back on for a nanosecond to share this lovely review of New Arcana by @jennywcreative.bsky.social in Under the Radar. Huge thanks to @ninearchespress.bsky.social for making space for poetry reviews! ✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Reviews of Rachael Boast's Versus Versus anthology and of recent poetry collections by @jesstraynor.bsky.social and @pascalepetit.bsky.social feature in Issue 36 of Under the Radar. With thanks to reviewers @julwe1.bsky.social, @jennywcreative.bsky.social, @betarish.bsky.social.

A Cleanse for Imbolc by Jessica Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #imbolc #stbrigidsday

I will be emerging from hibernation for these two launches! Come see us in Dublin or Belfast ✨️

This is really good. "and if they hurt you, write your curses onto them / till they shrivel like salted slugs."

Back on for the briefest of minutes to share this lovely review of New Arcana from the latest issue of The Alchemy Spoon. ✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Going offline to meet some book deadlines in the next 6 months. Will be back on later in the spring to publicise upcoming workshops and New Arcana readings. If you need me, email is best as I won't see DMs. Happy new year all ✨️

Starting the New Year in the company of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social’s compelling novel in verse ‘Filly’ from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🤩

You don’t ban aid groups, unless you want people to suffer.

Really interesting reflections on poetry collection as concept album here, alongside some great recommendations (delighted to be among them) @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true. Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?

And at the end of it all I wrote this piece about what I came away thinking about the whole thing (also, that's the baby that chewed my notebook in the previous piece about the women's centre in the Adre camp): www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Heba Muraisi, on day 54: “[I]can feel myself get weaker as each day passes" with "bruising on her arm and constant body ache"…is losing the ability to "form sentences, and struggling to maintain conversation". She vows to continue until their demands are met. www.thenational.scot/news/2572535...

There is no ceasefire. There never was a ceasefire.

At dawn today, Israeli occupation forces stormed the home of Palestinian writer and political researcher Sari Orabi in Rafat, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and abducted him.

Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.

For the day that's in it, my poem Midwinter from my third collection Pit Lullabies performed by Ayesha Ostler & recorded by the lovely folks at @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social youtu.be/eE1DSoRfrck?...

Louise Glück for the day that is in it.

Knew about this guy since, years ago, he was employed in an Irish theatre by another renowned sex pest. Both were allowed to continue for years, because society (women included) are happy to prop these people up if they're benefitting from their success.