Surveillance cat.

Just wondering what Godot’s hold music is.

Thanks Jackie, great guests and heartwarming to see so many familiar faces in the audience - all there for Seán Rocks.

Coming soon…

When you are very young but you have already discovered your purpose in life.

OH on #CelebrityTraitors - I’ve been at better pantomimes.

I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am

Damn, even the cat voting?

Spending a little time with Derek Mahon this morning- what a poet- and looking forward to a celebration of him this evening with Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Stephen Rea, Claire Keegan, John Banville - Gallery Press event at Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.

Do you reject Nigel Farage? And all his works? And all his empty promises?

The postbox on the corner of where Bonham meets Lambert Rd off Brixton Hill is like the National Gallery of crochet. @regretteruane.bsky.social

Must be a nightmare being Dracula's lawyer. 'Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you: is this the face of a killer? I mean, fangs aside?'

With polling day underway, #dogsatpollingstations content makes its welcome return. Pictured: Dolly, Lily, Johnny, Cinsault and Pino outside their local polling stations.

Home time after a busy day with the books. Lovely evening light.

@ravenbooks.bsky.social Do you have CD Rose's book We Live Here Now, by any chance? All the fault of @cathybrown746.bsky.social and @johnself.bsky.social -

Very pleased I'll be talking to Christine Dwyer Hickey and David Park at this @dublinbookfest.bsky.social event on Sat 8 Nov! Love CDH, as do many, and DP should be much better known than he is -

Now available to watch online: Eimear McBride and myself in conversation as part of this year's Liverpool Irish Festival. Runs until 26th October: www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/eimea... Features childhood memories of Liverpool, 'pre-lapserian' Camden, film-making and her latest novel.

What a night. So much fun to share a stage with @johncreedon.bsky.social - his stories took us from Orange marches in Belfast to Kampala to city centre Cork in the 1960s!

I wish Northern Ireland and the Republic had their own independent military alliance because we could call it NAYTO.

Join us for our festival opening night for a special evening of conversation and culture to celebrate the 100th issue of The Dublin Review in a live broadcast with @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena 🎟️ bit.ly/3KgYZDD

Manchán 🕯️

One of my favorite episodes of Motherfoclóir. Manchán Magan talking about all the wonderful thing that Manchán was prone to talk about. @theirishfor.bsky.social @darach.bsky.social @thekavofficial.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Just so you know, if you'd like a book that's not on my website, you can. And right now, i'd REALLY appreciate it. You can message me here. You can DM me. Or you can email me at [email protected]. I can get pretty much anything. Thanks.

Many claims are made for the power of poetry to change lives. All I can offer on the death of Brian Patten is a simple truth. This poem - sent to me by my not-then-wife - is the reason I am with her 40 years on. RIP Brian. x

RIP Brian Patten

Next week, I'll be in New York and Washington D.C. for some readings and talks. All welcome. Free, just register. September 29th: Georgetown University, Washington Thursday October 2nd: Glucksman Ireland House, NYU Friday October 3rd: Princeton with Yiyun Li fis.princeton.edu/event/readin...

Judged by Maggie O’Farrell, Ben Miles and Chigozie Obioma, the Hilary Mantel prize for fiction will recognise emerging talent, and pay tribute to the Wolf Hall author’s legacy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

What a rollcall of writers and top editor Brendan Barrington!

Join us for a lively and engaging afternoon of book conversation at this year’s @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Readers’ Day event featuring authors Christine Dwyer Hickey, Miriam O’Callaghan, Joseph O’Connor and David Park 🎟️ bit.ly/4gCodbO

Occasional reminder that my book ‘Darker With the Lights On’ is available from @transitbooks.bsky.social. My stories have been praised by Helen Garner, Claire-Louise Bennett, Max Porter, Elizabeth McCracken, Kevin Barry, Wendy Erskine & Eimear McBride, among others. www.transitbooks.org/books/darker

Daily bunny no.3081 just has to make it across

I’m not sure timeline cleanse is the right phrase…

Sky over Howth, Dublin Bay

Patti Smith plays @3arenadublin.bsky.social on 6 Oct, not Vicar St!!

@lisehand.bsky.social is on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight between 7 & 8 talking about Patti Smith and the great Horses album @ 50! & in advance of her gig at Vicar St, Dublin on 6 Oct.

How to sum up the impact and legacy of The Hounds of Love by @katebushmusic.bsky.social? Tonight, ahead of the 40th anniversary of the album's release, @graemethomson.bsky.social and I will attempt this on @rteradio1.bsky.social's Arena at 7pm. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... @paulashields.bsky.social

'Tynan’s characters live for the transcendent intensity promised by a great night out.' Michael Hughes on the lives of ‘compulsive sessioners’

Hey, Frey. A lot of people seem sad. I think you'd better do the thing. You know - the thing with the vibes. Yeah. That's the one. #freythings

In the night garden …

“Good morning, my little minions.”

I’m off to Clifden Arts Festival in Connemara to talk to Donal Ryan on Friday 19th Sept at 3pm. It will be lively!

More fab TV - SO looking forward to this - David on Dev! @mcculld.bsky.social no doubt @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social will be watching ...!

Books and writers and @damianbarr.bsky.social - fantastic TV incoming!!!

Colours of a storm #Shetland

Twenty years ago we re-mortgaged our house to start Bluemoose and find great new writers who were being overlooked by the industry. In the last 2 years we've had 2 BBC TV series adapted from books we published. Not bad eh! www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Watching The Thursday Murder Club. It makes Midsomer Murders look like The Wire.

And in case you missed them... www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

That was some album review slot tonight. Swords out🤺 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...