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Sarah Burke Cahalan
1 day ago
"Prenatal Polar Bear" by Jen Hadfield
#smallpoemsunday
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Siobhán Dowling
1 day ago
Do they mean white straight Anglo American masculinity? 2020 Scottish gay man 2021 South African man 2022 Sri Lankan man 2023 Irish man 2024 Woman
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The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/the-guardian-view-on-the-booker-prize-winner-putting-masculinity-back-at-the-centre-of-literary-fiction
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Jess Traynor
3 days ago
Delighted the news is out about our next two poetry titles from
@bansheepress.bsky.social
- new collections from Tim MacGabhann and Billy Ramsell coming your way in 2026 ✨️
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Jess Traynor
8 days ago
It's been a really busy month, so just now getting round to putting up signed copies of New Arcana for sale on my website ✨️🔮
www.jessicatraynor.com/shop/p/new-a...
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New Arcana — Jessica Traynor
Jessica Traynor’s New Arcana explores grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive rel...
https://www.jessicatraynor.com/shop/p/new-arcana
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Banshee Press
6 days ago
A wonderful review for Filly by
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
in
@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
by James McNaney ✨
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend...
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Book review: Filly by Rosamund Taylor is an unsettling yet moving novel in verse
Rosamund Taylor’s new novel in verse, Filly, is both a moving and sensitive coming-of-age story about a young lesbian woman in 2000s Ireland, while also being a deeply unsettling account of an affair ...
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/book-review-filly-by-rosamund-taylor-is-an-unsettling-yet-moving-novel-in-verse/a1395699093.html
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Jen Matthews
23 days ago
Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter
#amreading
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
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Macha Press
about 1 month ago
Rosamund Taylor on morsels by Susanna Galbraith
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
#ACNISupported
#NationalLottery
#ThanksToYou
and @LottoGoodCauses &
#BelfastCityCouncil
#FundedBelfastCCSupported
@ulsterpresents.bsky.social
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Sonya Gildea
about 1 month ago
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
's launch of FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social
last night
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
& introduced by
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
💫
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Jess Traynor
about 1 month ago
High (and well deserved) praise for Filly by
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
✨️✨️✨️
@bansheepress.bsky.social
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Jess Traynor
about 1 month ago
Can't wait for tomorrow night's reading
@kildarereaders.bsky.social
with Kimberly Campanello hosted by
@catgander.bsky.social
🔮✨️
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Jess Traynor
about 1 month ago
🚨We are open for book submissions for two more days!🚨
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Banshee Press
about 1 month ago
Happy publication day to FILLY by
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
🐎 ‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy ‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty ‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry ‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson
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I'll be reading as part of The Shaking Bog festival with music by Ultan O'Brien. It's on Sunday, 12th October, 6pm, at Curtlestown Church in Wicklow. Please join us!
about 1 month ago
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Banshee Press
about 2 months ago
We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
on Wednesday 15 October at
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨
bansheepress.org/read/celebra...
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Celebrate the launch of Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press
We hope you can join us to raise a glass to Filly , the beautiful new verse novel by acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor, in Books Upstairs on Wednesday 15 October! Banshee poetry editor Jessica…
https://bansheepress.org/read/celebrate-the-launch-of-filly-by-rosamund-taylor
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Amnesty International
2 months ago
There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann
2 months ago
Professor Vona Groarke at an appointment ceremony for her new role as The Ireland Chair of Poetry, which took place in the National Concert Hall yesterday. Vona Groarke will be the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry, and her tenure will run from until November 2028.
@chairofpoetry.bsky.social
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(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska
2 months ago
This article on
#LOTE
has long been a passion project of mine. I can’t express how grateful I am to the brilliant Sarah Sharpe at JISS/Aberdeen for making time/space for (as I was then) unaffiliated ECRs to develop their research and make that idea a thing.
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Jess Traynor
2 months ago
FILLY by the brilliant
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
has arrived! Can't wait for this glorious novel in verse to be out in the world ✨️✨️✨️
@bansheepress.bsky.social
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@evepatt.bsky.social
@deschocks.bsky.social
@aidanbeatty.com
@dralicekelly.bsky.social
@ianduhig.bsky.social
@johnghoakes.bsky.social
@lcollins232.bsky.social
@rabarr.bsky.social
@fotoole.bsky.social
@gihnyu.bsky.social
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
@maryburke.bsky.social
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One more day to preorder Filly on sale!
@waterstones.bsky.social
@bansheepress.bsky.social
www.waterstones.com/book/filly/r...
4 months ago
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann
4 months ago
Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce Alvy Carragher (Ireland) and Ali Choudhary (UK) as winners of the The Eavan Boland Award 2025. Full press release here:
www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne...
@britishcouncil.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
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Banshee Press
4 months ago
FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's beautiful forthcoming novel-in-verse, is now available for pre-order from
Waterstones.com
at 25% off RRP. This offer is available until midnight on 31 July. Enter the code SUMMER25 at checkout!
#WPreorder
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
www.waterstones.com/book/filly/r...
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Jane Clarke
5 months ago
Congratulations
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
, winner of
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
Nature & Place Poetry Competition 2025.
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Rachel Plummer
6 months ago
I'm so proud to see my book The Big Day on this list of May's inclusive children's books alongside other absolutely wonderful stories 🏳️🌈💖 The Big Day is a picture book about marriage equality (and giants!) and it makes me so happy seeing it out in the world doing good right now.
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The Four Faced Liar
6 months ago
Here’s what Micheál McCann is looking for as poetry judge for
@the4facedliar.bsky.social
competition closing 30th June
www.the4facedliar.com/submissions
@writing.ie
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
@irishpen.bsky.social
@poetryireland.bsky.social
#writing
#poetry
#writingcommunity
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The Four Faced Liar
6 months ago
Congratulations to our Issue 3 contributor
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
on winning first prize in
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social
Poetry and Place competition
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Jess Traynor
6 months ago
They're not just killing the people, they're killing anything that brings joy in the midst of suffering. Eradication of lives, culture, kindness, empathy. Hard not to think the human race is doomed.
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Raven Books
6 months ago
Delighted to see
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
has a new poetry collection due out in autumn🍂, published by
@bansheepress.bsky.social
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This gorgeous ghazal has taken up residence on my head since I heard
@usuallyolive.bsky.social
read it aloud!
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6 months ago
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Jess Traynor
6 months ago
BANSHEE 19 POETS 2
@yvonnecullenwrites.bsky.social
|
@laurenlawler.bsky.social
|
@aimeegodfrey.bsky.social
| Karan Kapoor | Daragh Byrne |
@lisadmkelly.bsky.social
| Kayleigh Campbell | Alicia Byrne Keane| Kevin Graham |
@martinadalton.bsky.social
So delighted to feature these wonderful poets
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Banshee Press
6 months ago
Congratulations to
@gphibbett.bsky.social
on their latest triumph: High Jump as Icarus Story has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection! We're so proud of the incredible impact that this book has made ✨
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...
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Seamus Heaney Centre
The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize, supported by Atlantic Philanthropies.
https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seamus-heaney-centre/news/26052025PoetryPrizeShortlist.html
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Macha Press
6 months ago
We're delighted to be collaborating with
@bloomsdayfestival.bsky.social
and
@jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social
for an upcoming event! Join us on Satuday, June 14th at 2pm for poetry readings by Eilish Martin and Sam Furlong.
www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/poetry...
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Poetry Readings by Eilish Martin and Sam Furlong - Bloomsday Festival
Join us as at The James Joyce Centre on Satuday, June 14th at 2pm for an afternoon of poetry featuring two contemporary Irish authors from Macha Press, a new publisher dedicated to marginal, experimen...
https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/poetry-readings-by-eilish-martin-and-sam-furlong/
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Rick O'Shea
6 months ago
Some gorgeous and gorgeous looking post in the last day or two. Michael Clune's debut novel Pan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier by Shane Tinevan,
@oonaf.bsky.social
's This Interim Time,
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
's verse novel Filly...
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Jess Traynor
6 months ago
Soooo delighted for Parker & to see this beautiful collection soar 💛🧡
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Munster Literature Centre
6 months ago
Huge congratulations to Victoria Kennefick on being awarded the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award and also to all the other shortlisted poets -
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
#corkinternationalpoetryfest
#poetryaward
#farmgatecork
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Cork woman named as winner of Farmgate Café National Poetry Award
The award will be presented on Tuesday as part of Cork International Poetry Festival
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41628577.html
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Banshee Press
7 months ago
FIRST LOOK: Harbour Doubts, the prizewinning second collection of poems by Bebe Ashley, out 03/07/25 ✨
@bebeashley.bsky.social
'Sinuous poems full of power' – Rosamund Taylor
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
Cover by Jack Smyth
@jackflag.bsky.social
bansheepress.org/shop/p/harbo...
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Jane Burn
7 months ago
My latest artwork - It is a collage, is A2 sized and its title is 'The History of the Whales'. I feel endless love and sadness toward whales
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Tolka
7 months ago
We'll be at
@cuirtfestival.bsky.social
this Saturday, 12 April! Declan Toohey and Brenda Romero will be reading from their Tolka pieces at Charlie Byrne's at 6pm! Hosted by Molly Hennigan. Free to attend - all welcome!
www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/tol...
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Raven Books
7 months ago
The Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024 in the U.S.A. as reported by the American Library Association
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8 months ago
Congratulations,
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
! and Banshee Press. Can’t wait to read the new book.
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Rachel Plummer
8 months ago
It was lovely
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
's birthday the other day, so I made her some cupcakes! They are carrot and orange cakes with a cream cheese frosting.
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Banshee Press
8 months ago
We're very excited to publish new work from
@bebeashley.bsky.social
and
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
later this year! 📚
bansheepress.org/read/announc...
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Announcing the next two books from Banshee Press — Banshee Press
We are delighted to announce the next two books from Banshee Press, due later in 2025: Harbour Doubts , a second collection of poetry by Bebe Ashley; and Filly , the debut novel-in-verse by poet Ros...
https://bansheepress.org/read/announcing-the-next-two-books-from-banshee-press
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Very exciting to read my poem 'The Laying Hen' on the Ray D'Arcy show yesterday! Thanks to Poetry Ireland for selecting this poem as one of twelve to appear on DARTs and in libraries on Poetry Day, 1st May.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Poems to feature on Irish Rail services for Poetry Day
Rosamund Taylor, Poet and Writer
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22501970/
8 months ago
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Banshee Press
8 months ago
Submissions for issue 20, our tenth anniversary issue, are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work – you'll hear back from us in the summer ✨
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Edinburgh friends! We are launching 'Reflections Glimmer: Poems Exploring Ekphrasis' at the Fruitmarket Gallery on 3rd April at 6.30. I'm reading with the other authors of the collection,
@janeburn.bsky.social
and Maria Schiza. Please join us!
@tapsalteerie.bsky.social
8 months ago
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Jane Burn
8 months ago
In Edinburgh on April 3rd, I'm reading from my new pamphlet 'Epigone', part of a 3-poet pamphlet collection published by
@tapsalteerie.bsky.social
The other poets included are Maria Schiza and
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
It's at the Fruitmarket Gallery
www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-l...
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Book Launch: Reflections Glimmer: poems exploring ekphrasis - Fruitmarket
Reflections Glimmer: poems exploring ekphrasis showcases the work of three poets who each bring their unique perspective to the art of ekphrastic poetry. Jane Burn‘s Epigone presents a personal narrat...
https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-launch-reflections-glimmer-poems-exploring-ekphrasis/
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Really loved Richard Scott's intelligent, tender new collection!
8 months ago
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Jess Traynor
8 months ago
Lots of fun & brilliant connections made in great company with lovely Irish publishers at the London Book Fair. It was wonderful for
@bansheepress.bsky.social
to be able to attend - huge thanks to Culture Ireland & Literature Ireland for supporting ✨️
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Jess Traynor
9 months ago
It's Sunday night, so here is a Villanelle about Villanelle from Killing Eve. It's called Villanelle Villanelle & it's featured in the latest
@hogriverpress.bsky.social
🐖
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