Reznikoff: the CBe July newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/07/news...

923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

fallowmedia.com/reviews/2026... Rare moment of reading and writing about reading, rather than applying for jobs!

We are delighted to share the cover for THE MOST NORMAL WOMAN: ESSAYS ON APPEARANCES by Roisin Kiberd, forthcoming August 27th! Designed by Elisha Zepeda What is normal, anyway? Find out more and pre-order here: tramppress.com/product/the-...

A great review-essay about CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS in the New York Review of Books! Poetry, gossip, publishing, New York, economics--what's not to love? www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I'm so proud of this one, and happy to see it in the world. Available now from Broken Sleep. There will be a launch event with @leeannequinn.bsky.social 's wonderful Landscape with Question at Waterstone's Cork on July 28th 🎣

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

re:verb day 2 (6/6)

re:verb day 1 yesterday 5/6:

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Ellen will be reading at re:verb this weekend if you are in Dublin or environs Tickets here, yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/reverb.html, curated by @cmakris.bsky.social

#OtD 1 Jun 1940 the Greek anarchist feminist and poet Katerina Gogou was born. She opposed the military dictatorship, supported workers' struggles and the burgeoning LGBT movt, and was frequently subjected to police violence. Commemorated by this design: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

this day next week! www.citizenticket.com/events/kirko...

I wrote a piece for the fashion issue of @pva-books.bsky.social on the adolescent nihilism of Courtney Love's silk slips, babydoll dresses, The Virgin Suicides and other peak Tumblr-era teenage dream dresses💕obviously doctor you've never been a 13 yr old girl!!! papervisualart.com/product/pva-...

Well done Revolutionary Housing League lreland Longterm empty buildings are vandalism Time for "use it or lose it"

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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At The Wire website, read an extract from Graeme Thomson’s In Another World: The Four Seasons Of Talk Talk, which comes out today via New Modern. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...

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

an essay I wrote last year about Alice Notley is now online, on the anniversary of her passing 🌀 fallowmedia.com/journal/02/m...

The magnificent Emily Berry has a poem in the @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Rest in peace Alice Notley 🖤 This is a good read: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

"'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.

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