What an honour to be the recipient of The Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025. Thrilled to be chosen by the effervescent poet Victoria Kennefick and so delighted for my poetry pals, including the fabulous Martina Dalton who was highly commended 🩶

So lovely to have my poem 13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts featured @rteradio1.bsky.social Huge gratitude to Belinda McKeon for selecting my work. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Breda Spaight, an extraordinary poet ✨️

I'm so pleased to be reading alongside a cast of poetry stars at Waterstones Cork for the launch of Southword Issue 48. Come join us if you're in town: 15th of July at 6:30pm. @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social 💫

My wee poem will be featured on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight at 7:30pm. alongside great writers. Thank you to @zoecomyns.bsky.social & Belinda McKeon for selecting my work. It's such a fabulous show! 🤍

Delighted to have three new poems featured in this gorgeous issue. Wholehearted thanks to the editors of @manchesterreview.bsky.social ⚡️

I'm so grateful to the wonderful poet and editor @annemarienichurreain for including two of my poems in this gorgeous issue of @stingingfly 🤍 'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' began in @ulstermuseum while attending @seamusheaneycentre summer school. 🤍

Come celebrate with us tonight! Waterstones Cork, 6:30pm. Would love to see you there! 🩶🤍🩶

'Beginnings Over and Over' are present in every moment. How nourishing it was to read with poetry pals @ilfdublin.bsky.social in celebration of this gorgeous book, holistically edited @leeannequinn.bsky.social Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶

Celebrate our Cork launch at Waterstones on Tuesday the 27th of May at 6:30pm. We'd love to see you there! 🩶 Introductions by the effervescent @Leeanne_Quinn. Readings by Cal O'Reilly, Mai Ishikawa, and Róisín Leggett Bohan 🩶

This poem is just stunning. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Oh, look, it's a poem! Thank you to Aerial, the cat who accompanied me on my nightwalks in The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in May 2023. Small things keep on giving ✨️

I would highly recommend Jennifer Horgan's exquisite collection, 'Care', published @doirepress.bsky.social Her work is a joy to witness 🩶

Thrilled to have our book 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland '(Dedalus Press) featured on the Books for Breakfast podcast. Huge thanks to Mary O' Donnell, Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr for their close reading and praise.🩶⚡️🩶 www.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...

Excited to be reading at @ilfdublin.bsky.social with poetry pals of 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' #dedaluspress and the ever-giving @leeanne_quinn 🩶 Love to see you there! 💛✨️💛

Massive joy to have two poems, 'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' and 'My Sister Glued Jesus' in this forthcoming issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social 🩶 Huge grá to Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin for seeing my work. Stunning cover by photographer Ronan McCall and designer Eimear Gavin.

"...He was post-surgery, morphined up, my sister and I on night shift swabbing his nightmares." This poem confronts its unsettling subject matter on its own, harrowing ground. It chases up the spine & lodges in the heart & mind the way the last five lines of Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" do. Brilliant.

My poem '04 C 14598' was longlisted for @thepoetrysociety National Poetry Competition from 21,000 entries. I am wholeheartedly grateful to the judges, Stephen Sexton, @romalynante & John McAuliffe ⚡️ This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress

I'm taking the train! Thrilled to have one of my poems selected to celebrate Poetry Day. Immense gratitude to @poetryireland.bsky.social 🩶

We're delighted to nominate Breda Spaight, Patrick Cotter, and David Nash for the Forward Single Poem Prize for their poems published in HOWL 24. Wishing them the best of luck 🍀

I'm thrilled that a poem of mine, published in HOWL New Irish Writing, has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Grateful to HOWL for the nomination, and good luck to us all!

A lovely launch for The Stony Thursday Book in Limerick. Huge gratitude to #VictoriaKennefick 🩷 Thank you to #LimerickArts. So nourishing to hear many poetry pals read their work! 🩶

Lovely to share this list with such a plethora of fine poets 🩶

Oh look! A lovely book. Thrilled to be sharing pages with this fine line-up. Huge thanks to @leeannequin.bsky.social and Dedalus press. You can pre-order it here: www.dedaluspress.com/product/begi...

Poetry on public display!🙌 Poetry in the Park features twelve poets published in Howl New Irish Writing. The poems are now on display in six Cork City parks through the end of March. 📜🔍Want to go on a poem hunt? Learn more here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/poe... Supported by Poetry Ireland

Love this idea from Howl New Irish Writing @poetryireland.bsky.social #PoetryInThePark www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/poetry-in-the-park @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social

A gloriously sunny afternoon at Cork City Library reading poems with fellow Howl poets ❤️‍🔥💛✨☀️ as part of #IrelandReads Day @leggettbohan.bsky.social @mollytwomey.bsky.social #howlwriting #jenniferhorgan

Looking forward to these readings! 🩶 Love to see you there⚡️

I'm so thrilled to have poems in this beautiful book curated by the amazing @leeannequin.bsky.social & Dedalus Press. Happy to be sharing space with stellar poets 🩶 You can pre-order it here:https://www.dedaluspress.com/product/beginnings-over-and-over/

Days Like This don’t come around often! Introducing our new 'Artist in Residence', @vanmorrison.bsky.social. This partnership will see Morrison provide two fully-funded scholarships to students and perform a series of live concerts across Belfast, including at Queen's. ➡️ ow.ly/5z6m50UUFja