"'This Poor Book' is an astonishing swan song, a travelogue between worlds." @maijasofia.bsky.social reviews Fanny Howe’s “This Poor Book.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-poor-book-fanny-howe-posthumous-epic-poetry/

"Like all the best poets, Howe is a master of incorporating silence within her poetry-philosophy." @maijasofia.bsky.social reviews Fanny Howe’s “This Poor Book" https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-poor-book-fanny-howe-posthumous-epic-poetry/

I wrote about This Poor Book, Fanny Howe’s incredible final long poem for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🌀🌀🌀🌀the book is out now via @graywolfpress.bsky.social & Divided Publishing lareviewofbooks.org/article/this...

'I can't rescue what never happened though I came here to do so.' Fanny Howe - This Poor Book

I'm very happy to be part of re:verb, curated by @cmakris.bsky.social and featuring @zanbreathnach.bsky.social @kitfryatt.bsky.social and other great writers - a celebration of poetry and experimental writing on 5/6 June at Kirkos in Dublin - weekend pass here www.citizenticket.com/events/kirko...

so excited for the first re:verb festival of 'contemporary poetry & the verbal arts' in dublin!! excited to read with Alice Lyons and to hear all of these readings! thanks so much to @cmakris.bsky.social for organising!! tickets available now: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/reverb.html

Submissions are for Tolka Issue Twelve are now open 💥 This submission window will close at midnight on Sunday 31 May. We accept all kinds of non-fiction, including essays, biography, auto-fiction, and more besides... tolkajournal.org/submit-to-to...

Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy is different from his "language texts" ("by comparison, a breeze to read") but remains a "protest against the horrors of colonialism, capitalism and the violence we inflict on nature and those we deem Other." Reviewed in @stingingfly.bsky.social by John Christopher Vaughan.

RE:VERB 2026 - PROGRAMME NOW LIVE! Session tickets: €10 Festival pass: €35 Read the Festival Announcement: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/05/reve... Visit the Festival Webpage (artist info + tickets): yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/reverb.html

rest well jh prynne, the / mere & lovely centre, of the earth

their slender means J.H. Prynne, ‘Against Hurt’

Join us in Galway @cuirtfestival.bsky.social! We'll have ghost stories, sports stories, and stories about stories. 1pm at Mick Lally on Thursday.

I'll be reading / talking at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social on Thursday, with @tolkajournal.bsky.social <3 JP and Declan will be too xoxox www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/tol...

The opening eight pages of my new long poem 'Hallucinations' appear in the third issue of @fallowmedia.bsky.social (Spring 2026). With thanks to editors Ian Maleney and @maijasofia.bsky.social. More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2026/04/fall...

Deep Vellum’s POETRY OPEN CALL starts April 1st. details and guidelines: deepvellum.submittable.com/submit

on his centenary, my favourite frank o'hara poem, 'morning', sent to me in another life by my first real love, when I was 18, feeling ~astonished~ for the first time by what a line break could do 💔 ...were there / lots of anchovies !!!

Great readings from Adrian Duncan and Christodoulos Makris at the launch of Issue 3 of @fallowmedia.bsky.social. Great work by Ian and @maijasofia.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the pieces (and to Adrian’s new novel, out this summer) @serpents-tail.bsky.social

this evening in @booksupstairs.bsky.social ! readings from Charlotte Buckley, Adrian Duncan & Christodoulos Makris, please join us 🌹

Launch on Wednesday 25th of March in @booksupstairs.bsky.social , it's free and all are welcome🌹🌹🌹 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

Come. I’ll be reading from my new long poem ‘Hallucinations’. Grateful to Maija & Ian for publishing an excerpt in issue 3 of fallow.

i'm so excited to be publishing newly translated poems by the criminally overlooked 1970s Athenian anarchist poet Katerina Gogou. I've looked for the out of print english translation of her collection 'Three Clicks Left' for so long now that I gave up and commissioned new translations for Fallow <3

Issue 3 of Fallow, the journal I co-edit with my partner, is available to order now 🌹poems from @cmakris.bsky.social, Mira Mattar, Charlotte Buckley, as well as newly translated Katerina Gogou. Essays & fiction by Philippa Snow, Kevin Breathnach, Adrian Duncan, Alice Blackhurst &more fallowmedia.com

"He seemed to believe... that to abandon his work meant giving in to what fascism wanted for him: an existence so devoid of value + meaning that it would be indistinguishable from death. He held on to his briefcase not until it was too late but because it was too late."

Reading at this online launch next Saturday 🌿 a long poem about the prefix ‘un-‘ as a possible door into new worlds🌀🌀🌀🌀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...

Join us for the online launch of TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE, an anthology edited and introduced by fieldnotes collective, gathering a range of international voices that entangle, illuminate, and resist. Free tickets: buff.ly/tpDDbhO

so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #90 Ancient History The women are lying down in front of the bulldozers sent to destroy the last of the olive groves. —Diane di Prima

This is a really intimate and affecting series of conversations. Important listening, particularly for anyone who thinks that racism in Ireland is a recent development

"I ignored them for months, but the paranormal investigators insisted on my attention." Ghost Bait - Writer and poet Maija Makela discusses paranormal encounters she recently endured via @tolkajournal.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

The great Surrealist painter and anti-fascist activist Remedios Varo was #BOTD in 1908. Nicknamed one of the “three witches” of Surrealism with Kati Horner (who took this photo) and Leonora Carrington – Varo is pictured wearing one of Carrington’s masks. L: Creation of the Birds (1957).

David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains) reading an untitled poem by Frank Stanford. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6o...

I reviewed Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy, a fun to read book that was good but that hurt my soul

this is why i'm sceptical about ireland's emphasis on individual artist bursaries and artists basic income... it means we can pay rent but its ultimately just more money that goes into landlords pockets, it's not enough, artists need infrastructure and cities need spaces like this, for everyone

I'm getting behind the The Complex Cultural & Arts space. Stop the eviction! Please sign & share my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie

I'm getting behind the The Complex Cultural & Arts space. Stop the eviction! Please sign & share my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa... @uplift.ie

special christmas offer! you can get 4 issues of fallow @fallowmedia.bsky.social for €50 (with free postage if you're in Ireland) these two issues, and the next two🎄 Spooks and Wigs think it's a perfect present... fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-...

The last year’s worth of published work. Short stories courtesy of @stingingfly.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social and @xraylitmag.bsky.social and my essay on the cinema of Marguerite Duras in @fallowmedia.bsky.social.

Good morning with a Diane Seuss sonnet All things remind me now of what love used to be. Swollen cattails in lonely places. Gluey conditioner in my hair.

Ana Mendieta, #BOTD in 1948 in Cuba. An extraordinary artist who used the body and landscape in an elemental way. I keep going back to her work (she’s in my first book, and the next one). This piece includes a link to a radio essay for RTÉ this year. momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-touchst...

I have an essay on medieval mystics, PMDD, the weird language of health, etc, in the stacked upcoming issue of Ache Magazine. Pre-orders help with printing costs! www.achemagazine.co.uk/issue-no-4?s...

"I ignored them for months, but the paranormal investigators insisted on my attention." 'Ghost-bait' by Maija Makela, first published in Issue Nine, is available to read our website 👻 www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

'Someone would meet me off the train, and then as it got dark, we’d return to the scene of the haunting.' 'Ghost-bait' by Maija Makela (@maijasofia.bsky.social), first published in Issue Nine, is now available to read on our website: www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Dean Browne

you can now read 'Ghost-bait' online, an essay I wrote about the time I was headhunted by paranormal investigators who wanted me to lure restless spirits to a séance. Originally published in @tolkajournal.bsky.social issue 9. I love that magazine! www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children. www.thetimes.com/article/0887...

ireland is a racist country, always has been and all those microaggressions and fearmongering from everyone from FG/FF to your ‘well meaning’ aunties pave the way towards racist rioting and murder…that’s just my two cents as another irish person whose been asked ‘where I’m really from’ all my life

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥 We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue! This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December. You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...