To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright

What if an entire profession declared "only God can judge me"

'But mostly I think the patriarchal mass murder of this woman's career and her personhood is a freaksome lynching the likes of which we will look back upon with a dazed compunction.'

#AbundantNumber ahead of the curve since 2024

Now available for pre-order: FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut poetry collection by acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann, out in February 2026. Cover design by @jackflag.bsky.social 🪨 bansheepress.org/shop/p/found...

“I fear not thy epidemic, man,” said Ahab

Sarah Kendzior writing in 2013 about what personal experience taught me a decade later. (I still haven’t been paid.)

The Christmas whale is perched in our teeny tiny tree and the cat hasn't seen him yet

There will be a special Aase Berg night in Chicago in January. I will read with a bunch of Chicago writers to welcome my translation of Berg's AASE'S DEATH into the world. Thanks to @neonpajamas.bsky.social for organizing, for foregrounding translation.

Just 24 days until my book is published. Nervous. Emotional. Happy. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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René Char, tr. Cid Corman

Oh Jesus H Christ

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would you like some Amateur! online art theory for the holidays? @theglobeandmail.com thinks you would... www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Last few tickets for this DREAM event tmrw (Fri 5th) 6-7.30 pm. Architectural Association, London. FREE! Hear Theo Downes-Le Guin talk about @ursulakleguin.com's childhood in Napa Valley, the landscape & ppl that shaped her work + convo w/ Theo, Sarah Shin @silver-press.bsky.social & me.

this is why i'm sceptical about ireland's emphasis on individual artist bursaries and artists basic income... it means we can pay rent but its ultimately just more money that goes into landlords pockets, it's not enough, artists need infrastructure and cities need spaces like this, for everyone

I'd love a browser/general software extension that adds a "No, fuck off!" button to any pop-up suggesting "AI" "help" with something --- and the option to send exactly those words to the company producing the software.

oh my god we are cooked

Finally RTE has made the correct decision. (posted by @newschambers.bsky.social on insta)

There's a whole chunk that didn't make it into BAD LANGUAGE about reading as something that I was encouraged to do as compliant behaviour & the blurry, gendered, classed line where it became dangerous, excessive, radical & non-compliant behaviour. The latter is what keeps me reading.

@bfcdublin.bsky.social hiring a community coordinator - great club, great people. bohemians.ie/come-work-at...

I always thought 'clubbable' meant 'designed to be hit with a chunky stick' as lads described this way invariably are

Imagine you're the naughty elf who has to milk Santa.

“The imposed sanctions are a masterclass in the evisceration of European sovereignty. They render Guillou a non-person, not only in the United States, but also in his own country — the beating heart of Europe.”

Lou Barlow and Lou Barlow's extra pair of socks at @dolanslimerick.bsky.social last night. He played all my favourites and I cried. What a legend.

Meant to post this yesterday for world Aids day: "bitch, do something yourself instead of just sitting there getting angry" Words to live by ❤️

Article by Rory Rowan and I for Rundale. A ‘political’ ecology of Ireland's energy transition requires an understanding Ireland's dependent development model, the contradictions of capitalist technology and the need for democratic planning. www.rundale.org/2025/12/01/e...

trust and expertise and self-determination matter in classrooms. and pleasure springs, often, from these conditions

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Bob Kaufman

He basically drew the fucking maps for Bush‘s bombing campaigns, not so much “foresaw” as “actively involved in creating”

This year as writer in residence at UCC has been an absolute joy, and before I head off into the sunset I'm reading at this fundraiser for Gaza go Bragh at UCC Library, organised by the mighty Nell Korben on December 10th. Tickets at link in comments. Bígi linn, saoirse don phalaistín 🇵🇸

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1716

Shoutout to the incomparable @eireannmor.bsky.social, who journeyed across land and ocean in the middle of her semester to run a small press fair* with me this weekend 💫 *If we may be permitted to say so ourselves? - a bloody good small press fair

I second this recommendation in the strongest terms Pattern-book is the perfect gift for the pattern-seeking creature in your life ❤️

this thread will be a list of suggestions for Christmas presents, if you do those: pack of nice thick index cards box of envelopes and two sheets of pretty stamps couple of nice pens (like pilot hi-tec C) steno notebooks, spiral-bound small tape recorder/player and blank tapes

Seattle friends, Asterism is open 10–5 today for a holiday book sale!

UK HE be like what else can a university be 🕳️💀

I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...

You'd 'get Ireland moving'™️ fair fast with a 90% marginal tax rate on gowl billionaires. Roast those chestnuts on yr open fire, boss

"small-press publishers are the spirit that animates our literature. [They] put on the most community-led, exciting and engaging literary events, forming life-giving networks that sustain the industry at large" yes! yes!

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

WHAT? WE ARE SHADOWBANNED ON TWITTER AND HAVE ONLY A LITTLE OVER A THOUSAND FOLLOWERS HERE! SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE!!! 😒

you should not bring arsonists to a fire-fighting conference, and if you do then you can expect people to start saying the fire isn't the problem

'he brought much-needed groundedness to a project that tirelessly announced itself to be about aping the resurrection...and breaking into heaven. While this was all well and good, there had to be some element that would stop the Roses from disappearing up their own fundament. That element was Mani.'

A fantastic photo from the Catflap launch as part of the Outburst Festival. Thank you Eoin Campbell for the pictures!