Our friend, poet and activist Sarah Clancy, is on the Spectre, one of the boats on the Flotilla which was attacked last night. Contact the Taoiseach and Tánaiste to demand protection, there must be safe passage for all trying to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza. #LiftTheSiege

New @fallowmedia.bsky.social arrived. Superb company of John Christopher Vaughan, Daniel Fraser, Marguerite Duras (tr Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan), Maria Sledmere, Stephen Sexton, Lisa Robertson, Owen Hatherley, Devki Panchmatia, Maija Makela, Russell Persson and Lalla Romano (tr Brian Robert Moore).

I wrote (kind of hysterically) about the greatest record of all time which turned forty yesterday <3 <3 <3 <3 (I just know that something good is going to happen!! I don't know when!!) mystes.substack.com/p/i-still-dr...

Readings from Stephen Sexton, Daniel Fraser, Devki Panhcmatia & John Christopher Vaughan at 6.30, this thursday in @booksupstairs.bsky.social to launch Fallow 2. 🌹somehow giving goth wedding invite... come & drink a glass of wine 🌹🖤

in the new issue of fallow, i wrote about the great Alice Notley🌹 you can order the issue here (or get one at the launch in Books Upstairs, at 6pm this Thursday) fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world

in the new issue of fallow, i wrote about the great Alice Notley🌹 you can order the issue here (or get one at the launch in Books Upstairs, at 6pm this Thursday) fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

also idk who sees these posts but I will be giving a mini lecture on Addison Rae, High Fashion and fascism tonight in The Winding Stair as part of Salon Rógaire, it's a fundraiser for SWAI and it's nearly sold out 💕 www.eventbrite.ie/e/salon-roga...

New @fallowmedia.bsky.social with a Marguerite Duras film script & companion essays by Daniel Fraser & myself, Lisa Robertson on Adnan, Maija Makela on Notley, Owen Hatherley, Stephen Sexton, Lalla Romano, JC Vaughan, Maria Sledmere, Devki Panchmatia & Russell Persson fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

so excited to share the new issue of fallow, with contributions from some of my favourite writers... including newly translated Marguerite Duras (!!), Lisa Robertson on Etel Adnan, poems by Maria Sledmere, Stephen Sexton and more, you can pre-order here: fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

from Etel Adnan’s XXXIX from The Arab Apocalypse (1989) @arablit.bsky.social

Bisan in Gaza, asks for a call of action tomorrow, 7/24/25. “Bang the pots” in front of law makers jobs, and anywhere noise can be heard in protest of genocide. “because the sound of our empty stomachs and the voice of humanity, must be louder than their brutality.”

Donate and get involved if you can. We have to do SOMETHING. ANYTHING.

You can read Maija's essay on ghosthunting in TOLKA Issue Nine, alongside writing from Kevin Breathnach, Ruby Eastwood, Annie Ernaux, and many others. www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

Fleadh-ing! The loveliest weekend with other editors from Ireland’s incredible literary journal community ☀️☀️☀️ Huge thanks to Tom Roseingrave for organising, to @earagailarts.bsky.social for having us, to @maijasofia.bsky.social for reading so beautifully from her TOLKA piece 💚💚💚

Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

Anthony Opal from the wonderful Economy Press has just published this work from Fanny Howe. I wish that postage from the US weren't so expensive, or that they had distribution in the UK.

Remembering the late and wonderful Fanny Howe, 1940 - 2025, with this extract from a long poem called ‘The Long Wrong’, which was published in Poetry Ireland Review 73, edited by Michael Smith.

Please sign and share this petition calling on the government to overturn its disgraceful refusal and to issue visas to the children from GAA Palestine for their trip to Ireland. #FreeGAAPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le...

everyday, in my head, trying to think about resistance, I think of Fanny Howe's question: "why be obedient to a world that will end?" as an antidote to the "easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" thing 💔 (from her sequence 'Q')

From our Art of Poetry interview with Fanny Howe:

Fanny Howe 💔 I was lucky enough to see her read with the late Michael Longley just after the publication of The Needle's Eye - a really essential read, & an aid to understanding broken America.

Fanny Howe, sad, sad day... This photo on my office wall, this book always by my desk. Photo: Michael Avedon/ Words: The Winter Sun: Notes On a Vocation 'If I freeze here, one foot poised to go forward, one foot poised to go back, I will at least be living in the present and the past will know it.'

End-Song by Fanny Howe

RIP Fanny Howe 1940–2025

💔scrolling on my library break to discover my phd subject and guiding light has died. i have to thank her for so many things

RIP to a great poet, fiction writer & person, Fanny Howe.

To paint one rose equals a life Fanny Howe, ‘Goodbye, Post Office Square’

Sally Rooney, a ‘committed supporter of Palestine Action’ says she won’t be coming to the UK as long as the terror ban is in effect www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

Massive Attack does an excellent job of putting the Vylan controversy in perspective (from their Insta).

I wrote about two books I loved – Modern Poetry and frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, for @stingingfly.bsky.social, both collections are published in the UK now by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social stingingfly.org/review/moder...

the plan is to distract and deflect and overwhelm and numb until everyone is dead. and then they will say it’s in the past, and they will move into Gaza, and the western machinery will roll on as it always has. hard not to see proscribing Palestine Action is part of this plan

Our beautiful ninth issue in all its glory ☀️ Shipping worldwide: www.tolkajournal.org/shop

Today marks the 75th anniversary of Chantal Akerman's birth. Her work in film was visionary: exploring confinement, mother-daughter relationships, exile, loneliness, desire and the impossibility of human connection. [images 2&3: stills from Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy, 1989]

'Suffering and all its attendant bewilderment is given the space it deserves, and pleasure, transcendence, and love are all given due space alongside it.' Gorgeous review of Diane Seuss by @maijasofia.bsky.social stingingfly.org/review/moder...

Yes it does! From July 4th to 6th between UCC and Shandon Studios, with a talk on Turkish poetry in translation in UCC on Thursday 3rd. Readers at the link, more info on readings and venues coming soon 🐟

I wrote about two books I loved – Modern Poetry and frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, for @stingingfly.bsky.social, both collections are published in the UK now by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social stingingfly.org/review/moder...

Worth the cover price alone! If we do say so ourselves . . .

thank you sm @tolkajournal.bsky.social for publishing my spooky essay 'Ghost-bait' in the new issue.💓 you can buy the journal (full of many other great pieces) here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8

“Is this what happened” Alice Notley, from ‘The Descent of Alette’

oh Alice Notley, my favourite poet of all in a world where poems have always been my favourite thing

I wonder if there's any chance of @fotoole.bsky.social "notspeaking" about any of this? Part of the work of not stopping them or holding them accountable is journalists wasting their platforms and everybody's time on centrist civility discourse while Gaza burns.

Delighted to have two new songs out in the world 💜 Hold Me In A New Way //CD’s 7’’ boomkat.com/products/hol... Bandcamp elainehowley.bandcamp.com/album/hold-m...

Joshua Clover was a real one - engaged, humble, brilliant. rest in poetry.

My new big TERFism explainer is now online and unpaywalled at Lux magazine, and the physical version in the print issue (#11-12) looks incredible. I do recommend buying it or subscribing. Thanks to Sarah Leonard & all the Lux comrades for wonderful editing. lux-magazine.com/article/terf...

*oh be careful* Hannah Weiner, from ‘Clairvoyant Journal: 1974 March–June’ (1978)

does anybody (my ~20 followers on this silly website) know where i can get this book? this book is my white whale. it's driving me crazy. Jen George who are you. where are you. where is your book