Lovely to have new work in the latest issue of Horizon Magazine ❤️

Submissions for the very first Mo Poems Anthology are now open for the next month! Link to submit is below and in my bio - happy writing x docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Some recent gems in Irish and English from my bookshelf! 📚✍️✨ @liamcarson.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @daraghfleming.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social @eabhloid.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

Submissions for the very first Mo Poems Anthology are now open for the next month! Link to submit is below and in my bio - happy writing x docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Friends, I’m teaching an Advanced Poetry Course with creative writing ink. 6 weeks, starts at the beginning of every month. We’ll do lots of poems. Lots of them. If you’re interested! creativewriting.ie/our-courses/...

MO POEMS 2025 Last year we started Mo Poems by asking 30 people to write a poem for each day of Movember - we ended up with far more than that! So this year, we’re doing a Mo Poems Anthology. Submissions will open next week for a month. Everyone is welcome to submit their work for consideration.

Throwing Snow collaborates with Cork writer @daraghfleming.bsky.social on 'Pedalling', a euphoric song about summer longing and nostalgia. nialler9.com/throwing-sno...

July 2nd - a Dublin launch of A Brief Inhalation alongside the incredible Alice Kinsella - do come along!

This week’s blog: thoughtstoobig.ie/2025/06/15/c...

How To Tell If You’re The Villain #2

Totally overwhelmed to find out the Society of Authors and the Authors’ Foundation have granted me funding to work on my novel!!

Celtic Life International Magazine interview

Cool one today - a therapist in Ottawa made contact to get my full catalog for the library in his practice for clients to use as a resource for their wellbeing ❤️

It’s me mother’s birthday!

Delighted to announce that I have no real news or updates. I have no news that I can’t tell you about yet but am excited to share in the coming weeks. I am simply existing.

‘I was reading this the other day…’ is code for ‘I was scrolling through social media and saw this’

Why do people on this platform think that a followback is an invitation to attempt a sales pitch via DMs?

Earth’s Silliest Heroes

Our mental health services still aren’t good enough. Our budget for mental health is still way below the minimum threshold. The state isn’t doing enough but is taking credit for the hard work of charities and organisations that fill the gaps the state has left. Let’s not forget that.

At least once a week I get a DM from a young person who is being blackmailed by someone using intimate images. It’s staggering and heartbreaking. And there doesn’t seem to be anything that can be done. There’s almost never any recourse. There has to be more we can do

May is mental health awareness month. My thoughts circle around leading with empathy. Understanding that everyone is dealing with something. That people are often acting out because they’re hurting, and how we should try and show compassion rather than resistance

This week’s blog! thoughtstoobig.ie/2025/05/05/i...

Latest episode out now! open.spotify.com/episode/5m0k...

I have a new essay on the ethos of Spider-Man in Blackshuck Books’ new anthology, There’s Nothing Out There, available now! It was originally meant to be included in A Brief Inhalation but so happy it found a home here ❤️

I now have the full set of my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social book launch buddies, so my reading is sorted for the next few months! @daraghfleming.bsky.social @postpran.bsky.social

New episode is here! open.spotify.com/episode/51sq...

Delighted to attend the launch of A Brief Inhalation by @daraghfleming.bsky.social at Waterstones Cork last night. Congratulations Daragh on your wonderful collection of essays! 📚✍️ @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Hello fellow humans, I just wanted to pop in and remind you that we’re launching my latest book, A Brief Inhalation, in Waterstones Cork next Tuesday April 15th at 6:30pm. There will also be a post-launch reception hosted by Beamish Irish Stout! Free to attend!

Exclusive extract from A Brief Inhalation on Books Ireland today - thank you Ruth McKee ❤️ booksirelandmagazine.com/trippy-tripp...

What’s a Corkonian’s favourite city in the UAE? Do, boy.

In the Sunday Times today. As uncomfortable as this part of my life was, I’m happy to talk about it as so many people are affected by sextortion, in particular young people who are so at risk. Thanks to Julieanne Corr for reaching out to talk about it, it’s a conversation that needs to happen

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender

All my headshots make me look like I’m about to kick off 😂 Lovely piece with image.ie today ❤️ www.image.ie/living/page-...

Truly grateful for all the support A Brief Inhalation has received so far ❤️

Really enjoyed the launch of my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection New Famous Phrases tonight alongside the brilliant @daraghfleming.bsky.social Lakshmi Gill, Esme Allman & @postpran.bsky.social. Astonishingly good writing all round! Will be ordering your books imminently!

There’s an extract from ABI on RTE Culture today ❤️ www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

On this week’s episode I was buzzing to have a chat with my good friend and incredible writer @hollowaywriter2 We chatted about everything from writing and Patrick’s publishing journey, to how sound the writing community in Ireland is! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/05tp...

Wishing @daraghfleming.bsky.social a V Happy Publication Day 🎉 A soul-searching, sensitive & meditative examination of life written with the sharp & understated hand of a poet, #ABriefInhalation is a rich & generous read Review🔗 www.swirlandthread.com/a-brief-inha... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!

'What was once a severe disdain for education became a flourishing romance. Whenever I had the kernel of an idea to write, I had to figure out what is was ... ?' An Essay on Essays by @daraghfleming.bsky.social www.writing.ie/resources/an... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Lads, I’m not built for Dublin. I’m just not. Been here 48 hours and I’m shattered. I am exhaustion incarnate. The energy you have to possess to exist here is incomprehensible. Fair play to ye, I need to be in the quiet countryside taking it fierce handy.

Thanks to @corkbeo for the article on A Brief Inhalation - out on Monday! www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

This week’s podcast! I talk about being able to get things wrong and Adolescence open.spotify.com/episode/6jgb...

We’re diving deep on poems on Saturday the 5th in Cork City Library- do come along for poetic chats and mighty craic! As the poster says, I’m a Cork Boy! www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-poets-...

I sent Michael D a copy of A Brief Inahaltion and he sent me back a wee thank you note x

9 days until A BRIEF INHALATION! @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Happy #WorldPoetryDay This is ‘Some Definitions’ published in Crannog and shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize.

My first chapbook, Notes for a Mid-Youth Crisis, was published by Bottlecap Press in the US in 2021. However, they are terminating publication of any non-US based poets. Anyone know a publisher who might be interested in re-publishing an updated version?

Copies of A BRIEF INHALATION are here!!