RTÉ's New Irish Writing selection: Excerpt from 'Sky An Iris', a story from my collection Four Night Seas 🫏🐎 @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

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Today, we walk the Fox Bride paths in the sun. #hookland

🐦‍⬛Thank you! to judge Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social, and editors Meg Pokrass @megpokrass.bsky.social & Gary Fincke. Thanks also to Fictive Dream's Laura Black @fictivedream.bsky.social for submitting Peor Es Nada to this great annual contest! Anthology out 7th July ✍️

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Four babies at four days old 🤩

South Uist, 2019 #otd

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

rabbit spirit #joncarling #drawing #art

Clarice Lispector never blinked first

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Dog #sculpture, Roman Empire (1st century BC - 4th century AD) #art

"New roses are flowers from a past, from gardens recalled and imagined in which a certain stillness was perceived." Beauty, Burning: The Condition Of Music — Daniela Cascella minorliteratures.com/2026/05/21/b...

Today reminds me of the day I went on a safari. Somebody forgot the corkscrew, and for several days we had nothing to survive on but just food and water.

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Late -pregnancy grants much-coveted access to The Couch.

Yeah I have a pension plan it’s called the sweet release of death

I'm delighted to have my short story 'Nyctinasty' published in Grub Street (Vol.75),Towson University's fantastic student-led Literature & Arts magazine. ✍️🦊🌼🌏 (p14) wp.towson.edu/grubstreetli...

Today's news: my doggy is about to have pups 🪄👁

‘Saint Julian in Winter’ by Tim MacGabhann ‘Stood, leadenboned, before the bed-length grooved barrows. Lit rainwater brimmed there: the tombstone’s saddle-gloss became a font…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/16/s...

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Portuguese poet Eugenio de Andrade wrote two beautiful poems, one to Alexandrian poet Kavafis and another to Marina Tsvetaeva. I am searching if Alexis Levitin translated either so I can share. The poem to Kavafis is particularly beautiful. On loneliness and desire in anonymous Alexandrian bedrooms

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Leonora Carrington in her studio Kati Horna huxleyparlour.com/artists/kati...

Junior Research Fellow in English, specifically the field of 20th Century literature. Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK Salary: £39,424

The moving story of how a helpless baby hare helped a workaholic woman wake up from the trance of near-living and rewild her soul www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/28/r...

🖼️ Sin Eater Illustrations

Druid Lecturer-in-Residence (0.5 FTE) University of Galway Part time 52 months www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRK335/d...

Added some updates to my website, including a new short story - Bumper Wordsearch. Have a read: www.gerardmckeown.co.uk

Random little Catholic fact for all yinz heathens, today is the day of veneration for Julian of Norwich. She wrote a book, The Revelations of Divine Love. If you are into medieval mystical writings I really think its one of the best, a stunningly beautiful read. julianofnorwich.org/pages/who-is...

Job Opportunity! Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art History University College Dublin - Historical and Philosophical Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN346/l...

Lucy Doane • Sea Winds •

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When I'm waiting for stuff to mix down or render I sometimes go on the Internet Archive and look up kitchen / bathroom design inspiration books from the early '80s. I have faint memories of things like this from when I was very little but in fairness I might be remembering bad Doom texture maps

Write the room after. The silence. The object left behind. #DoveCry #AntiWarPoetry #WritingPrompt

The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter Dedication’, is published today. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/p...

An elephant running amok. Udaipur Style, Rajasthan School, India, ca. 1800, Gouache painting on paper

Stephen Mackey

From ‘Invisible Cities,’ by Italo Calvino.

Much appreciated, Gerard 🙏

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El Greco • View of Toledo • so stunningly modern but painted in the very late 16th century • night Venticelli •

Leto’s Car, from the Sketchbooks of Dune www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...

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Pontiffing on RTE's Arena

Meanwhile, earlier, on the east coast: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Kingdom. #Photography Shana & Robert ParkeHarrison