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

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✨

Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

If you’re a Maeve Brennan fan, Molly Hennigan has edited this excellent collection of essays about her work. Happy to have a piece in here alongside Roddy Doyle, Belinda McKeon, Darren Anderson, Niamh Campbell. Out in February. Pre-order www.newisland.ie/shop/p/an-as... @newislandbooks.bsky.social

The Pig's Back Dublin Launch ISSUE # 7 @booksupstairs.bsky.social last night with @thepigsback.bsky.social co-editors Dean Fee & Emily Cooper. Hosted by Louisa of Books Upstairs, With celebratory readings from Issue #7 and # 6💫

THIS SATURDAY! The Joy of Scansion: how to know the dancer from the dance – with @dharmabam.bsky.social 🌊 🗓️ Saturday 29th November ⏰ 11am-1pm GMT 🎟️ £35/£25 ⭐ or book all three winter webinars for £90/£60 Book your spot: buff.ly/KBzjLx6 #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

Very pleased to share an essay on the craft (& crafting) of essays in the Irish Writers Handbook 2026. Thank you to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for commissioning. @booksireland.bsky.social wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...

We're launching next Thursday 27th November in the Digital Depot - come one, come all!!

THE CLIMATE ISSUE 🌊 Our Winter 2025-26 issue is out next week! Join us as we celebrate the launch in The Digital Depot, Dublin 8 next Thursday 27th November from 7pm 🎉 This event is free but space is limited and booking essential - book your ticket here: stingingfly.org/product/wint...

STATE, IN RELATION Jointly created by @stomaselli.bsky.social Clare Bell, Nathan O'Donnell, Nithy Kasa @oeiny.bsky.social Annemarie Ní Churreáin & myself Launch & readings 14 Dec 4pm DUBLIN ART BOOK FAIR @tbgands.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

We're launching Issue 10 at @molimuseum.bsky.social First Fridays on the eve of 5 December 🎺 Featuring an editorial conversation, and readings from seven amazing contributors 🔥 Time tbc, and registration will open soon 👀

Booked💫

Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤

Yup it is.

Kathleen Jamie and Peter Mackay headline a special event at the Scottish Poetry Library to welcome the Poetry Jukebox to Scotland. Date: 4 Dec 6.30pm-8pm Details/Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-juk...

@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social NEVER A ROSE Very happy to have a poem included here and to be in such fine company. Huge thanks to Editors Gregory McCartney & Susanna Galbraith💫

A wonderful review for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social in @belfasttelegraph.co.uk by James McNaney ✨ m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend...

It's been a really busy month, so just now getting round to putting up signed copies of New Arcana for sale on my website ✨️🔮 www.jessicatraynor.com/shop/p/new-a...

HYMN TO ALL THE RESTLESS GIRLS by Annemarie Ní Churreáin & FALLEN by Audrey Molloy The Gallery Press Launch @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week 💫

Get your hygge on

Two new poetry collections, Fallen by Audrey Molloy and Hymn to All the Restless Girls by Annemarie Ní Churreáin, will launch at 6.30pm on Thursday and all are welcome to join us for the celebration. Refreshments – and poetry! – will be served! ✨🍷📚

STATE, IN RELATION Jointly created by @stomaselli.bsky.social Clare Bell, Nathan O'Donnell, Nithy Kasa @oeiny.bsky.social Annemarie Ní Churreáin & myself Launch & readings 14 Dec 4pm DUBLIN ART BOOK FAIR @tbgands.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...

⚡Cover reveal!⚡ We are delighted to announce our forthcoming essay collection, 𝘈𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭: 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴! 𝘈𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 is a compilation of recollections, a sequence of encounters with monuments of all shapes and sizes. Pre-order: papervisualart.com/product/as-i...

On Samhain, the line between this world and the otherworld grows thin. These stories invite the listener to step across the breach and discover what magic awaits... In celebration of Samhain, we are releasing not one, but two, audiobooks by renowned folklorist Oein DeBhairduin 🍂

Some more pieces now up on our digital archive, including this fine essay from vol 5 by @zanbreathnach.bsky.social winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

We're delighted to announce the 𝗗𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲. It includes talks from Guest Curator Dr. Selina Guinness, a Publishing Talk Series + DABF's wider event programme. DABF is free, event tickets are limited, booking essential. Explore the programme: bit.ly/47LaV9O #DABF25

AFTER PARTY by @deanbrowne.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social Introduced by Louisa Earls of @booksupstairs.bsky.social and launched by Tom Morris. 💫 Now we're talking. Let's go!

Issue Seven of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring new writing from Sophie Corser, Wendy Erskine, Rosa Mäkelä, Dara McWade, Laura Morris, Nicole Morris and Odrán Waldron.

Our Susanna's first book. If you want to explore one of the minds behind the Abridged, go buy it!

Abridged. Never A Rose. In Print And On Line. Soon.

Butter Intervention is great.

Just a few more days left to book for my workshop and reading as part of Waterford Writers Weekend 🍂🔮✨️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-workshop...

Our Susanna has a new book out. Her first. Worth buying!

Always a treat to get into @booksupstairs.bsky.social & lovely to sign some copies of New Arcana 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social