Dublin, we are launched. Huge congrats to Tim MacGabhann on this gorgeous collection & to @booksupstairs.bsky.social for hoating us. Found in a Context of Destruction is available from all good bookshops & from @bansheepress.bsky.social Next stop Belfast - Thurs 19th at No Alibis!

Looking forward to the reading and editing ahead 😍

Wondering what we're up to this Spring? 🌼 Here are some key dates to add to your calendar 🗓️ More details on the applications for our Summer School & submissions window for our magazine cover artwork will be shared via newsletter 🎨 Sign up to our newsletter for updates🔗 stingingfly.org/newsletter/

Final call for our Climate Issue – Online Event, tonight at 7pm-8pm (Irish Time). Have you registered for the event yet? us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... It will be an opportunity for us all to reflect on some of the work in the issue. Join us for what will be a brilliant conversation.

One week until submissions open. HOWL New Irish Writing 26 opens on Feb 13th. Poetry and prose in English and Irish. We’re looking forward to reading what you’ve been working on. 📅 7 days

✨🐺✨ the coolest team in Cork ❤️

We're open to submissions next Friday (13th February) for gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! Full details on the website: gorse.ie/gorse-15-eur...

We are excited to announce a special Climate Issue – Online Event next Tuesday 10th February 🌊 Our Climate Issue offers variety of responses to the changing climate and our responsibility to the present political moment 🍃 Free event. Registration is required 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13: gorse.ie/book/no-12/ gorse.ie/book/no-13/ (Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)

@su-anna.bsky.social's debut MORSELS is available for purchase: Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the DFAT. www.machapress.com/subscription... @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social

Now open! Submit!

NEW on our website | Ellen Orchard reviews 2025 Irish poetry collections: 🍙Morsels by Susanna Galbraith @machapress.bsky.social 🏝️The Oasis by Charles Lang @skeinpress.bsky.social 🎈After Party by Dean Browne (Picador Poetry) 💧Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke (Gallery Press)

This is a cracking read… new novella coming soon from Danielle McLaughlin. Published by @stingingfly.bsky.social

Excited to share the 1st episode of my new partnership with @milkweededitions.bsky.social, with the remarkable Sangu Iyer, about her memoir Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed Audio👂🌱: milkweed.org/between-the-... @literaryanimal.bsky.social @whitingfoundation.bsky.social

We’re delighted to announce that submissions for HOWL 26 will open from February 13 to February 23. We’ll be accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for our next collection of New Irish Writing. More @: www.howlwriting.ie/post/submiss...

We’re delighted to share some very good news: Molly Twomey and Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir are joining the HOWL 26 team working on English language poetry and fiction. More @ www.howlwriting.ie/post/new-add...

Coming to the Irish Writers Centre this February... Susan Tomaselli's AUTOPORTRAITS: Making Stories from Art will look at different approaches to writing including autofiction, ekphrasis and creative non-fiction. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/auto...

Join us to celebrate the publication of FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut collection of poetry by Tim MacGabhann! We're launching in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 12 February and in No Alibis in Belfast on 19 February. All are welcome! bansheepress.org/read/join-us...

I have a new story on BBC Radio 4 - Friday 23 Jan - and then on catchup Elevator pitch - a comedy about love, entropy and a ceremonial badger I’d love for you to give it a listen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

My course is going ahead again in France this year (October) if anyone is interested. Circle of Misse writing retreat is special ❤️ www.circleofmisse.com/wp/writing-2...

📣 Artist Talk: Dragana Jurišić in conversation with Programme Curator Michael Hill 📣 Join us for an introduction to Jurišić’s work and exhibition, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘸𝘣𝘰𝘺. 📅 Thurs 29 Jan | 5pm 📌 Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 🎟️ Free Tickets → www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve... #TBGandS

Esker Sessions returns for volume VII with Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Geraldine O’Neill. 🖋 Esker Sessions takes place at Esker Arts on Friday 13th February at 8pm, tickets are €8 and available at eskerarts.ie. See more details on www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/esk...

ICYMI 👀 Burn Your Notebooks – Lisa Brockwell on Elizabeth Bishop and the dangers of leaving it all too late Read the post: buff.ly/lwAo6pO #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

HOWL opens for subs for New Irish Writing once every two years, and that window is quickly approaching! From Feb 13th - Feb 23rd you can submit your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to HOWL 26 at howlwriting.ie We hope we are lucky enough to receive your work!

Applications are open for the McCormack Writing Center Summer Workshop (formerly the Tin House Workshop) and I'm so glad to be teaching again this year. Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...

My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

I'm facilitating an 8 week course on Poetry & Source at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social from Feb 4. We'll explore how to find, adapt, integrate & depart from the sources that inspire us. If you think this would be useful to your practice, the link is below. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/poet...

I'm judging the Maria Edgeworth Festival's poetry competition this year 🥳 and I would love to read your work! The deadline is the 27th of February 🌸 mariaedgeworthcenter.com/.../maria-ed...

Thank you, Lilliput! Awesome to see the Proofs, even more awesome to read blurbs about your own work 🩻🪞

From The Stinging Fly - The Climate Issue - a short story of brilliance - Night of the Big Wind by @junec.bsky.social - Quick witted, sharp as a tack. Writing like this is hugely inspiring. 🙏🏻

New to #Bluesky? Here's a starter pack for Literary Journals the Island of Ireland #BookSky go.bsky.app/EdG3Ruv

New to #Bluesky? Here's a starter pack for Bricks & Mortar Bookshops on the Island of Ireland #BookSky go.bsky.app/G4kmxVq

Back on for the briefest of minutes to share this lovely review of New Arcana from the latest issue of The Alchemy Spoon. ✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Rediscover your inner compass 🧭 and set a course to a writing practice that uniquely suits you with Professional Certified Coach + poet Anne Tannam from 14th January! Reignite your creativity at the link 👇 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/find...

Drawing the working year to a close. Love and thanks to all who made it possible and to the dearest of writer friends & collaborators. ❤️ Image: 'Woman and Horse', by Felix Thiollier, 1899

Homemade Cheese & Onion Loaf with hummus, olives, artichokes & stuffed vine leaves. #Lunch before the #launch of *State, In Relation* 🇮🇪 @tbgands.bsky.social featuring @stomaselli.bsky.social @sonyagildea.bsky.social @oeiny.bsky.social #NathanODonnell #ClareBell #AnnemarieNíChurreáin #NithyKasa 🍾 🥳 🎉

Sunday💫

Join us on Sunday for the launch of STATE, IN RELATION @tbgands.bsky.social Dublin Art Book Fair 2025 #DABF25 with accompanying print installation OMITTED PROVISIONS www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

Join us on Sunday for the launch of STATE, IN RELATION @tbgands.bsky.social Dublin Art Book Fair 2025 #DABF25 with accompanying print installation OMITTED PROVISIONS www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025. Next is Chris Arning's pick: High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett (Banshee Press). Thank you, Chris!

Between March 2024 & May 2025 of group of writers & artists (myself included) participated in a set of workshops to jointly create the printed publication, State, in Relation, our response to the Irish Constitution. Launching 14th December at DABF: www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

STATE, IN RELATION. My piece - Word Rain - is designed to be read multiple ways. Launching Sunday 14th at TBG+S, and available to buy at Dublin Art Book Fair. 📸: @sonyagildea.bsky.social

THIS SATURDAY! The Art of Space: how to let a poem breathe – with @dharmabam.bsky.social 🌊 🗓️ Saturday 6th December ⏰ 11am-1pm GMT 🎟️ £35/£25 Book your spot: buff.ly/P04LhDZ #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

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

Big huge congrats to the brilliant @elainefeeney.bsky.social ❤️👑❤️

Come join us this Thursday @booksupstairs.bsky.social to celebrate 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social ✨️ There'll be chats, readings and 🍷

@stingingfly.bsky.social Launch of ISSUE 53 The Climate Issue @ Digital Depot, introduced by Declan Meade & Editor Lisa McInerny, w/readings from @junec.bsky.social, Simon Costello & many others 💫 @eoieoin.bsky.social in the raffle hat w/writers Lianne O'Hara, Ella Gaynor & Kasandra Ferguson✨