Beyond excited to see this fresh from the printers. It looks beautiful. The essay I co-wrote with Sally Huband about the impact of wind turbines on human and nonhuman health is one of the outcomes of the last year I'm most proud of. So thrilling to be published alongside such brilliant writers.

"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it." From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕 bansheepress.org/read/the-two...

100 ISSUES OLD TODAY! The new issue of The Dublin Review features work by Nathan O’Donnell, Laura Morris, Tara McEvoy, Molly McCloskey, Conor Dawson, alongside the mighty Colm Tóibín who also appeared in our very first issue 25 years ago. NUMBER 100 is out now in bookshops, or at thedublinreview.com

Well, I’m going in again… Another Lime Square Poets open mic tonight. It’s free so if you’re interested and don’t have other plans, do sign up #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #writingcommunity

Ed will also feature on tonight's episode of Front Row on BBC Radio 4 at 19:15: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We are delighted to reveal that our colleague Ed Hogan has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. His story, Little Green Man, will be broadcast today at 15:30 on BBC Radio 4: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

And to say once again: Maureen is co-responsible for the existence of both PLR & ALCS, so every writer in the UK & Ireland should give her 💐💐💐. And read her books!

Meet the Stormers of Issue V @belindasubraman.bsky.social is a mixed media artist. She won Best of Show in 2024 at the Crossland Gallery’s show called Precious Things. She also runs the GAS Facebook group & GAS literary journal The Storms is supported by #Fingalarts & #DublinCityofLit Arrives Nov

Here's my 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter for Sept: info on 'dance as if' launch events in Cornwall & London @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social & recommending @mptmagazine.bsky.social Plus an article on how I write @serenbooks.bsky.social See mailchi.mp/10e91fb65935... #danceasif #poetry #howiwrite

Students welcome - free event! @ulsteruni.bsky.social @ulsterunigamesdes.bsky.social @imaginebelfast.bsky.social

Thanks to the Best American Poetry blog for reprinting my poem 'Self-Portrait as Psychology' as their Pick of the Week! (It originally appeared in the NYRB.) Thanks also to the wonderful artist Soheila Sokhanvari, whose paintings initially inspired it. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

Listen up! We #women are here to make 'good' news about who we are with #Poetry #Art and #PoetryFilm. Join our international multi-media #NotJustPretty open mic series, Oct. 4, Nov. 8, Jan. 24. #PoetsOfBlueSky bsky.app/profile/theb...

I'm excited to chat with Shane Tivenan and Catriona Shine about (built) environments and their works To Avenge A Dead Glacier and Habitat respectively in October here in #Oslo. Both out from @lilliputpress.bsky.social Free, sign up here: shop.prismaticpages.com/products/bui...

Full programme just announced for Inspiring Writing, this year's NAWE Online Conference 2025, 7 & 8 Nov. If you teach, facilitate or research creative writing, this is YOUR conference. Come & connect, learn, share. Early Bird discounts til 19 Sep. Info at bit.ly/3jgXMup

Confluences and Collaborations - event Sept 18th - and don't we need more of it! @machapress.bsky.social

Let’s find some beautiful homes for your lost birds 🪺 💌 Submit now at: www.chillsubs.com/lists/presti... #writingcommunity

‘An Aroko for David Oluwale’ is in the new Forward anthology, 'Forced' (below) in my newest book & between them tell his story & my 50-year involvement with it. I'll read them at the @bbccslfest event, St George’s Hall Bradford Sunday week in a great lineup from 2pm. pic @farrar.max

Heading to the Bere Island Arts Festival? Annette Skade will be there with her wonderful poetry book Holdfast, published by Channel last year. www.bereislandartsfestival.ie/saturday-20t...

Laughing out loud at the brilliant Paul Durcan, in prep for ekphrasis class tomorrow. He’s so good it ‘s hard to choose. Want class to read them all! 🖼️📚💚

We’re open for submissions, friends!🦜🦜Send us your most imaginative fiction, poetry, CNF, artwork, comics / graphic narratives. We want it all, baby!

My blog talking about British Library holdings after my experience as a 2025 Eccles Institute Visiting Fellow. TLDR: Do apply to the Visiting Fellowship!

My latest Echolocation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/echolocation...

"Water is heavy silver over stone. Water is heavy silver over stone’s Refusal." Archibald MacLeish, from "What Any Lover Learns."

Coming soon: This autumnal weather 🍂 has us excited to reveal the cover for Efa Lois’ new book ‘Gwrachod Cymru | Welsh Witches’! Publishing on 1 October, her illustrated guide to the witches of Wales is a must-read for anyone interested in Welsh history & folklore www.serenbooks.com/book/gwracho...

This is an incredible, awe inspiring book @serenbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #poetry

@machapress.bsky.social icymi!

Four weeks left to enter The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2025! You could win a cash prize of up to €1,000 and a week at The Moth Retreat in beautiful rural Ireland, plus there's the chance to see your work published in the Irish Times online... 💐 bit.ly/mothnature

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

Join us to launch Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell on 3 September, with the book's editor Alex Wong, Meynell's great-granddaughter, the renowned feminist critic and theorist Laura Mulvey, and literary critic Sarah Parker! 📔 🎟️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/selec...

Gorgeous retro designs from Seasca (seascadonegal..com). I bought this cushion cover based on 70s Irish stamp design. Other area designs on their website.

This is definitely a date for the diary - an excellent line-up 👌

This - 1,000% #chronicillness #naturewriting #memoir lithub.com/nature-is-no...

The Southword poetry podcast is back with their latest season and I'm enjoying the latest episode with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social this morning 😀 #poetrypodcast #poetry open.spotify.com/episode/6phF...

Free online attendance at The Fantasy Summer School 2025, organised by the University of Oxford, and Bloomsbury Publishing, that brings together the expertise of scholars, publishers working with fantasy authors. Link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-blo... Please share :)

by the way, we are always open for submissions of reviews, interviews, texts in Spanish & extracts from published/to-be-published books (must have a publisher) ...

'When a honeybee bumps against glass, and silences noise your room, when masonry settles and a knock at the door is harm ...' 'When You Unravel' by @eleanorhooker.bsky.social – poetry from issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019) 🧵 bansheepress.org/read/when-yo...

'Living' from my collection 'A Tug of Blue' (Dedalus Press) #Living #poetry

I'll be running 2 new online #creativewriting courses this autumn! 'Poetry Writing 1: Starting to Write' & 'Inspired by Art: Ekphrastic Poetry & Prose' are available to book now createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please share... #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social #ekphrasticpoetry #poetry

The sounds of Ireland that restless whispering you never get away from, seeping out of low bushes & grass, heatherbells & fern, wrinkling bog pools, scraping tree branches, light hunting cloud, sound hounding sight, a hand ceaselessly combing & stroking the landscape … John Montague

Head to our online shop for your late summer #poetry reading choices and get FREE UK postage across the lot! Any books missing from your shelves? ninearchespress.com/shop

We’re back, after a summer break! This week, we’re thrilled to present an exclusive interview with leading poet, Ruth Padel, exploring creative process, inspiration, and the importance of the natural world to her work. Huge thanks to Taz Rahman and Just Another Poet www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_0f...

Homebirds – A beautiful journey through Northern Ireland’s birdlife, from garden visitors to coastal flyers. Perfect for bird lovers, nature seekers, and curious wanderers. blackstaffpress.com/homebirds-97... #Birdwatching #NorthernIreland #Homebirds #NatureLovers

#Booksky Just finished this brilliant and uplifting love letter to Rathlin & the healing power of the natural world. Thoroughly recommended. @rubyfree.bsky.social

Listen back to my @rteradio1.bsky.social essay on #writer Edith Somerville #IrishRM #SomervilleandRoss here www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The brilliant Martina Devlin @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social was on RTÉ Radio 1 talking about Edith Somerville - check out her sensational books Edith and Charlotte on the Lilliput site and have a listen to her episode here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘One-Sided Conversation with a Hydrozoan’ by @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social from her collection ‘Battery Rocks’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/08/frid...

I'll be reading at #northcornwallbookfestival on Sat 27 Sept with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & running a workshop on writing from the body on Sun 28 at 10 am. Booking open now via #endelientaarts endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb... #poetry #batteryrocks #danceasif #beast #poetryincornwall #festival

'dance as if' @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social will be launched on 25 Sept at the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... Other events to follow. #danceasif #booklaunch #poetry #poetswhodance

In the Sunday Independent today. With thanks to Lorraine Courtney! @lorrainecourtney.bsky.social

So delighted to be part of this!