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

First newsletter of 2026 sent out & it’s me gushing about how much I love Dry Cleaning & their excellent third album, Secret Love 👁️ With hints of XTC, Suicide & Peter Gabriel, this might be my favourite album from them. zarahedderman.substack.com/p/the-bad-ar...

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

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

"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/...

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

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...

Alice Oswald💗 www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

two of our very best; Rachael Allen interviews Alice Oswald for Paris Review 💖 www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

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.

Rest in Power Margaretta D'Arcy, fierce, fearless artist and anti-war activist. She was a strong advocate for Palestinians, an early signatory to our Irish Artists' Pledge to Boycott Israel and a tireless campaigner against the US military use of Shannon Airport and efforts to erode our neutrality.

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.

My friend Sarah Clancy is currently in IOF captivity, kidnapped last night when her boat, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was illegally intercepted in international waters. Some boats are still sailing. Do what you can - wherever you are - to amplify & protest. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @freedomflotilla.bsky.social

🔥❤️ 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...

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).

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

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: