Very much enjoying issue 146 of PIR which is packed with new poems and art by Stephen JohnsonVery grateful to @isabeldwyer.bsky.social for reviewing my pamphlet Superposition, to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social for publishing it, and to @poetryireland.bsky.social for providing a platform 🙏

Lauren O’Donovan @LaurenODonovanW.bsky.social has won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Cúirt New Writing Prize, Southword Subscriber’s Poetry Prize and, most recently, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Lauren is a grateful recipient of Cork County Council Arts and Arts Council funding.

Really delighted to be honoured by the Sister Cities organization and Dr. Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney who will read from and discuss my poetry books Taxidermy Heart and Superposition in Newport News, Virginia this Sunday over what sounds like most delicious afternoon tea 🫖🎂

Wonderful launch for @mollytwomey.bsky.social’s Chic to Be Sad last night in @waterstones.bsky.social 😍

Getting caught up on summer media — it was a thrill to be at the award ceremony for the CIPF Farmgate Award this year which went to the amazingly talented Victoria Kennefick for Egg/Shell — www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

It was an honour to be interviewed by the Echo last month about my book Superposition — here’s the link to the article online in case anyone wanted to read it and missed the print edition: www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...

Little late posting, but had such a brilliant time in Galway for the @ragairemagazine launch. RAGAIRE is available to buy online, or at loads of good bookshops 🤩 ragairemagazine.com/buy/ ### Photos by Alanna Scully Photography

If you’re a writer in Ireland, you’ve probably used Angela’s website to learn about submissions:

Congratulations 🥳 👏

My chapbook Superposition has one rating on Amazon - 4/5 stars 😱 There’s no review text so I’ll never know why my first and only review was docked a star 🤪 It must have been because of late delivery or something surely 😝

Fab to be featured in the Southern Star ⭐️ @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

Jennifer Horgan will read from her debut poetry collection Care in our @doirepress.bsky.social event on Fri 11 July and her book got an incredible @irishexaminer.bsky.social last weekend. "This is a book filled with outstanding poems" @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Programmes, curations and the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

In the most violent unstreamed wrestling competition of 2025, in the final round, in the very last minute, I beat my website into obedience and now you can finally buy both my books online! (If that’s what you’re into 🖤) laurenodonovan.com

Honoured and beyond to be launching Skylight 47 issue #20 in Galway on Thursday at 6pm! I have huge admiration for Skylight: one of Ireland’s only broadsheet formats, every issue so beautifully and carefully printed, alongside exquisite art 🖼️ Hope you can join me!

Celebrating Seamus Heaney’s ‘North’ 50th birthday yesterday in Cork with fabulous company Róisín Leggett Bohan, Molly Twomey, and Tom McCarthy 🛥️ 🌊

It was terribly fancy and very cool to get to read some poems at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin this week. I’m so grateful to everyone who came, and to the wonderful IWC staff — especially the fantabulous Damien Donnelly — All the professional photos by ANDRES POVEDA

What an amazing treat and honour to be invited to read @IrishWritersCtr alongside 4 poets I admire so much — really a bucket list moment! So grateful for the wonderful IWC team 🙏 and especially Damien!

Tonight 🤩

Can’t wait to read in Dublin at the Irish Writers Centre this Wednesday at 6:30pm along with the incredible poets Afric McGlinchey, Luke Morgan, D’or Seifer, and S. C. Flynn. Would love to see you there if you are free, willing, and able! irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...

My first appearance on The Echo was almost 30 years ago when I had the chance to hold a Royal Python at a pet fair. Today I’m lucky enough to be featured again in the Book Recommendations section for “Superposition” available to buy now — munsterlit.ie/bookshop/

Can’t wait for this! Reading in the big city 🏙️ If you’re around Dublin, it would be wonderful to see you!

Honoured and delighted to be the featured reader at Lime Square Poets on June 12th! This event is online and completely free 💚 www.limesquarepoets.com/event-detail...

Thank you to everyone who attended the pamphlet launch in person or in spirit! Pamphlets are available for sale now in most bookshops and on our website: howlwriting.ie

One of the greatest joys in my life is to call this astonishing woman my work wife. I don’t know anyone who works harder or cares more about the smallest detail of every project

Delighted to have a poem in this issue of Ragaire and to be reading at the launch this evening in Galway!

It is a childhood dream come true, and a bucket list item ticked, to have Superposition available to buy Waterstone's Cork along with some of the finest chapbooks Ireland has to offer, all published by Southword Editions @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Taxidermy Heart is now available to borrow at libraries nationwide! 📚 📖 💜

It’s the week of launches — 3 in 4 days! Very much looking forward to visiting Dublin on Thursday to launch Ben and Rafael’s pamphlets 🚀 hopefully see you there 🐺 @poetryireland.bsky.social

Having a poem in Washing Windows V, among so many other superb Irish Poets, is an honour and a delight. Photo taken with the backdrop of my dirty windows — because sure isn’t window washing a job for the rain? 🌧️ Huge thanks to editors Nuala O’Connor, Alan Hayes, and @arlenhouse.bsky.social

The word of the month is definitely “grateful” — I’m so lucky to launch Fool for Poetry winning chapbook Superposition at CIPF25. Thank you to everyone who was able to make it, supported from afar, and/or who bought a book — you make it all possible 🙏

Definitely a moment to see your books for sale in such stellar company 🤩 I’m going to have to buy all new hats 👒

Launch day 🚀!! Tickets for today’s launch are sold out, but Superposition is available to buy in Waterstones, and soon in other bookshops and online at the @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social website. I’ll also be reading at Lime Square Poets and the Irish Writers Centre in June 📚 🎊

I’ve made it now for real lads — RTE Poem of the Week! There’s only one thing for it: I have to retire now while I’m ahead. Superposition launches this Sat at 3pm Cork Arts Theatre during Cork International Poetry Festival @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

I have the honour of moderating Rosemary Jenkins’ and Pat Boran’s event at CIPF tomorrow May 14th Cork Arts Theatre from 7pm. I hope you can join us! @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Thrilled to get an advance copy of Superposition! It’s such a surreal moment 🤩 Superposition launches Saturday at 3pm Cork Arts Theatre during the Cork International Poetry Festival with @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social — and with thanks to Cork County Arts who supported the work with a bursary.

Feeling fancy at City Council Chambers today for a reception with mayor Dan Boyle for the Cork International Poetry Festival which kicks off officially next week. What a real treat ⭐️

The launch of Taxidermy Heart was a joy yesterday. Thank you for all the support 💜 I am luckier than a four leafed clover to be part of the Irish writing community 🍀 Huge thanks to @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social, Creative Ireland, Cork City Libraries, Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Arts Council, MLC 🙏

Feeling more grateful than a sunflower on a blue sky in August!!

Wonderful event yesterday in Cork with Lauren “2-Books” O’Donovan, Rafael Mendes and Jordan McCarthy. Gripping readings taken from extraordinary collections, effortlessly introduced by the consummate Molly Twomey. @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social @mollytwomey.bsky.social

Delighted for the opportunity to see my poem “Dear Small Girl” in Fitzgeralds Park in the heart of Cork City thanks to Cork World Book Festival, Cork City Libraries, and Poetry in the Park. I’ve been lucky to have three poems over the years in parks, and they all happen to be about my daughter!

@laurenodonovanw.bsky.social is vying for the Busiest Poet Award I see! Book launches coming up for not one but TWO poetry collections?!? Well done Lauren. 🎉 #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #booksky #poetrysky #writesky

Honoured to be taking up the baton for Cork this year in what will be a countrywide poetry marathon 🤩

Our 4th county poet for our #PoetryDayIRL celebration on the #poetry #podcast is Kate Ennals representing Cavan. Kate has published three collections of poetry. Her blog can be found at kateennals.com Tune in 1 May 32 poets, 32 poems, 32 poems @poetryireland.bsky.social On most podcast platforms

This very day next week, Wen. April 23rd, ‘Taxidermy Heart’ launches at 5pm at Cork City Library as part of Cork World Book Festival. Huge thanks to Cork City Libraries, Creative Ireland, One City One Book Initiative, and Badly Made Books🙏 💜 corkworldbookfest.com/events/the-a...

I was honoured to judge the Ó Bhéal 5-Words International Competition 2024—2025. It was a joy (and torture!) to choose the winners. The 5-Words Anthology launches, along with readings from the winners, this Monday, Apr 14th, Hayloft Bar Cork

Taxidermy Heart Print-Proof day! My first time holding a copy of my own book 😱 Gobsmacked at how beautiful this design is by Jorge Rodríguez Durán, and the stunning print quality by Badly Made Books — feeling a thousand shades of grateful to Cork City Libraries, Creative IRL, and Cork Word Book Fest

Excited to announce that I've been shortlisted for the Public Discourse Award at the @europeanpressprize.bsky.social for my article Memory Machines, originally commissioned by @thedialmag.bsky.social Honoured to be in such great company on the shortlist www.europeanpressprize.com/shortlists/y...

Having tea from my Scotland mug this morning to celebrate a poem in Poetry Scotland #109! Huge thanks to editors Andy and Judy for publishing An Ordinary Crown — a 7 part sequence also upcoming in Taxidermy Heart, launched on April 23, 5pm at Cork City Library as part of Cork World Book Fest

I have a home online now! I hope you will come for tea ☕️ laurenodonovan.com