Paul Sweeney
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Poet. Limerick. Ireland.
The collision of mRNA and AI will be a revolution. RFK will go down in history as just another zealot . It’s not perfect, but it is a path.
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a fantastic reading of one of your To 2040 poems here …. About 20 mins in 
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Stephen Sawyer on Jorie Graham's poem 'Time Frame' and his own poem 'What We Did Know We Had or Running Thin'
Podcast Episode · The Two-Way Poetry Podcast · 8 April · 1hr 36min
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-two-way-poetry-podcast/id1714050217?i=1000760204062
3 days ago
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A poet to the very core. His Erotic Haiku is still one of my all time favourite books. One of a kind indeed. 👏 R.I.P.
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5 days ago
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Go five mins in: Jane Robinson reading an absolutely mighty poem. What a find she is. 👏
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Simon Costello & Jane Robinson
Podcast Episode · The Stinging Fly Podcast · 13 March · 1hr 8min
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-stinging-fly-podcast/id1216193485?i=1000755037147
6 days ago
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Mmm didn’t know a trump knew ashbery … impressive .
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15 days ago
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Alina Stefanescu
17 days ago
Solmaz Sharif's "Vulnerability Study" (as shared by Mag Gabbert elsewhere).
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Another one from “The Brazen Plagiarist” by Kiki Dimoula, Trans. Cecile Inglessis Margollos & Rika Lesser cc
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21 days ago
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Spring equinox The morning flowers Yellow, cold.
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23 days ago
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Gotta love Nick Lantz. I think it might have been Sam Riviere that turned me on to him in a review …
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26 days ago
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From The Brazen Plagiarist, Kiki Dimoula, trans Cecile Inglessis Margellos & Rika Lesser . Cc
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26 days ago
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Longbarrow Press
29 days ago
I fell in love with that word, Cazique, though I couldn’t find its meaning in any book my father owned. It broke the shackles in my brain: just thinking it or speaking it made me taller, other – simply more. 'Cazique' Matthew Clegg 50% off this weekend
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Very impressive poems . There are so many talented poets out there and I’m grateful for them all.
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€11,000 Moth Poetry Prize 2026 shortlist revealed
Read the shortlisted poems: After Athenry by Ronald Carson; The Fall, 1989 by Elena Croitoru-Reed; Delinquent by Juleus Ghunta; and Shazaya by Adam Oliver
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/03/12/11000-moth-poetry-prize-2026-shortlist-revealed/
29 days ago
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Made a random promise to myself “Read more essays”. You know, the ones not about poetry.
about 1 month ago
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Moon in the dark hour The moss bends its back To the rain.
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about 1 month ago
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Oooh ! Dark Night by St John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland sounds absolutely inspired ..
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about 1 month ago
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And for all academic research I would Say the risk is similar (it’s 30 years since I was an academic though). There are solutions though and even a very very bright future ahead if open science approaches are adopted.
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about 1 month ago
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I know one of you recommended this ..
about 1 month ago
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Very sad. Loved to listen to him. Writers and poets so grateful to have him as a reader. R.I.P.
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about 2 months ago
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I concur … snow bones feels like a classic book of poetry to me. Thanks Billy. I’m very grateful to have encountered it.
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about 2 months ago
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I think you would like this
about 2 months ago
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The funeral over the sound of tatami-sweeping By Masaya Saito, from Snow Bones
about 2 months ago
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Amazing. Can’t believe I never came across this before ! HT
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2 months ago
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Lauren Elkin
2 months ago
Does anyone else have autistic/ADHD/AuDHD kids who pick fights with you? Like do destructive stuff they know will drive you crazy on purpose? We are being absolutely terrorised in our own house. (NB I am not looking for comments from neurotypical parents telling me all kids get up to shenanigans)
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Hard, brutal, haunted by the sounds of words and the world. Loved it. Although I read each poem a number of times, I now intend to reread the whole thing to get a sense of it as a collection.
2 months ago
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
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Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast
There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...
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2 months ago
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I keep in coming back to this one. Perhaps it reminds me of early Kinsella as well….
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from the collection “Dirt Rich”
2 months ago
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Sounds about right ….
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2 months ago
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I’m always so proud (for our culture) when I see the literary pages in
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…. It gives artists a real platform to be introduced to the wider population and prizes such as
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perform a similar and symbiotic role IMHO… grateful for good critics too…
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2 months ago
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That was great
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! Could have easily listened to you and
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for another few hours…. (I’d totally give up honesty for a good line though … just to be clear ;)
2 months ago
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This evening! Last call !
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2 months ago
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“The Wreck of the Evangelists”, 2026
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2 months ago
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A unique poet for sure ….
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2 months ago
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Poor Spider Never surprised By their own web
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2 months ago
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Bruce Springsteen
2 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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One for you
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@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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The truth.
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Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
https://snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-lawlessness?publication_id=310897&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&isFreemail=true&triedRedirect=true
3 months ago
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Accurate
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3 months ago
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Great summary and focus from Carole Cadwalldr. As another book said , “Let us begin with the naming of things”…
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3 months ago
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I’ve been reading Henri Cole for years but really only “got him” last year .
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3 months ago
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National Book Critics Circle
3 months ago
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Poetry!
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Hey everyone ! Follow Steve here below for European avant-garde fiction reviews in particular.
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3 months ago
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Still influencing me… like red rubies
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3 months ago
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Carole Cadwalladr
3 months ago
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/
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Lovely interview. Found myself nodding along. I hadn’t understood how ambitious
@lukekennard.bsky.social
work is. Definitely digging into it this year.
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Looking hard at Luke Kennard
Lamentable success, the Simpsons and the Orthodox Church
https://open.substack.com/pub/thelittlereviewuk/p/looking-hard-at-luke-kennard?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
3 months ago
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“A large number is a form of mob”…
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3 months ago
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On my list of must buys for this month ..
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3 months ago
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Ugh. Time to pick down all those Pierre Joris translations of Celan and make my way through them…. 🙏
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Paul Celan, Breathturn; tr. Pierre Joris
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David Atkinson
3 months ago
The narrative is as ambiguous as the images are brilliant – the cream crawling, the water lying soft in the cistern Sonically this is on another level. The 4/6/4 sonnet is great. And even with all the unanswered questions there is the underlying wish for a simpler life
#poetry
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Crap. This is exactly my kinda thing… Yet another book to buy :)
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3 months ago
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