'Once upon a time, there were Travellers who travelled all over Ireland...' Acclaimed children's book 'The Fairy Queen' is now available in audiobook format, narrated by Elizabeth Ward 🌻 Order here via our website: skeinpress.com/product/the-...

Join us on Thursday 6 November for the launch of THIS IS NOT A COOKBOOK as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Featuring readings, conversation, sale of artwork, and nibbles to savour from the author’s own recipes.... This is one you don't want to miss: dublinbookfestival.com/event/this-i...

Join us on Thursday 2 October at 6.30pm for the launch of a new podcast: 'In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland', which centres the experiences of 'mixed-race' people who grew up in Irish care institutions. More info, and registration here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-the-hal...

We're delighted to be part of this year's Dublin Book Festival! Check out our events, including: 🍴 The launch of 'This Is Not a Cookbook' ✨Phil Mullen in conversation with Afua Hirsch 💡 'Class Acts' featuring poet Charles Lang More info coming soon...

Charles Lang's debut poetry collection 'The Oasis' is now available as an Audiobook, read as it's intended to be heard — in Charles' own rhythmic Glaswegian accent Listen below to the nostalgic 'New Shoes' and find the full audiobook on our website: skeinpress.com/product/the-...

Calling all arts managers and producers 📣 Next week, we're hosting a workshop with Safe to Create and Migrant Rights Ireland to help arts orgs support and employ migrant artists 🌎 🗓 Wed 10 Sept | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Online Book here: safetocreate.ie/training/wor...

🥁 Unveiling our beautiful new publication "This Is Not a Cookbook" by Iranian-Irish visual artist Roxana Manouchehri The book is a unique blend of memoir and food writing, and is now available to pre-order via our website 🥣 skeinpress.com/product/this...

"For the speaker, it is imagination that is the oasis, a safe place to work things out." Brilliant review of Charles Lang's debut poetry collection 'The Oasis' by Julie Laing in the latest issue of @gutter.bsky.social

'Here families toss sausages oan disposable barbeques/ Dugs, as is their nature, give people the run-aroon... ' 📻 Listen in to Charles Lang reading 'Helen's Bay' from his debut collection 'The Oasis' Featured on Sunday's Poetry People @rteradio1.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Congratulations to #MoonFishTheatre & #OeinDeBhairduin on the opening of the theatre production of #Whythemoontravels today at #GalwayInternationalArtsFestival. A wonderful write up about the process in @thetimes.com by ‪@sweetoblivion.bsky.social. Can't wait to see it live this week! #GIAF2025

Wonderful interview by #OeinDeBhairduin with #SinannFetherston @rte.ie, sharing the meaning and importance of #TravellerPrideWeek. Read more here: www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li... Check out Oein's books at: skeinpress.com/shop/ 50% off selected titles to celebrate this important week.

⭐Celebrating #TravellerPride⭐ We're very privileged to work with writers & storytellers from the Traveller community & publish their amazing work. To mark #TravellerPrideWeek2025 we're offering 50% off selected titles by authors from the community. 📚 ow.ly/x6R750VZebX

🌟 Join Our Team! 🌟 We're seeking a passionate Communications and Impact Manager to join our dynamic team. If you have a background in communications, marketing, events, public relations, or sales within publishing or arts organisations, this role might be for you! Info: ow.ly/PxpG50VTaLy

Come work with us! We have an opening for a Communications & Impact Manager! If you have experience in communications, marketing, events, public relations & sales & management in a publishing environment or an arts organisation, this post could be ideal for you! ℹ️: skeinpress.com/work-with-us/

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social

What Taidgh said! 😽 💌

So looking forward to my first time at @granardbooktown.bsky.social on Sunday 13th April. I’ll be talking to Aoife Barry about my book #TheInheritance

We’ve an action-packed 3 days of literary festivities ahead of us at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social! Tickets for all these events available via the links on our website skeinpress.com, we hope to see you at some of them, happy reading and happy 40th Cúirt! 📖🤍🧁 #TheOasis #TheFairyQueen #WhalesandWhales

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...

Helen Hutchinson is also a prolific poet - one of @skeinpress.bsky.social ‘Play It Forward’ Fellows in 2023, author of the poetry collection, ‘From The Dirt Lane to the Open Roads’, and guest editor of @poetryireland.bsky.social The Trumpet (issue 13) Listen here: bairbreflood.org/2025/04/09/h...

Excited to be reading at @ilfdublin.bsky.social with poetry pals of 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' #dedaluspress and the ever-giving @leeanne_quinn 🩶 Love to see you there! 💛✨️💛

Heading to Galway this weekend? This Friday, join us @cuirtfestival.bsky.social in assoc with @poetryireland.bsky.social for an evening of poetry featuring #CharlesLang reading from 'This Oasis' along with #MaryOMalley’s & #ClaudineToutoungi! 🎟️:https://ow.ly/reff50VwhTr 📚 #CharlieByrne'sBookshop

📣#ProfessionalDevelopment opportunity! Really looking 4ward to working with @etbireland.bsky.social primary & post-primary #teachers this Tues!😀There’s still time to sign-up!🤩 @dublincityuni.bsky.social @eileenflynn.bsky.social @skeinpress.bsky.social @oeiny.bsky.social @trionacheile.bsky.social

#ScottishPoetryEvents Fri 4 April Voodoo Rooms Edinburgh

What's all that about the cruellest month?! We don't think so! April kicks off with a brilliant poetry launch party in #Edinburgh this Friday feat. three exceptional poets: Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social, Patrick Romero McCafferty & Charles Lang! Join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-braw-p...

“I don’t want to do too much special pleading for men or claim victimhood. We don’t need special treatment. But I also don’t see the harm in trying to make everyone - everyone! - feel welcome in the big tent of literature.” Many excellent thoughts from Sam Jordison here and worth our attention:

"These searching, beautifully cadenced essays are filled with abiding truths" - Anne Enright On International #TransDayofVisibility, we return to these pivotal essays and reaffirm our commitment to amplifying trans voices and stories everywhere. Visibility matters. Solidarity matters. Choose love.🏳️‍⚧️

Congratulations! Wonderful news

Delighted to be awarded Best Irish Literature Publishing House in the EU Business News Irish Enterprise Awards 2025! Congratulations to all our authors, translators and illustrators on this wonderful recognition and all gratitude to @artscouncil_ie and @TheIrelandFunds for supporting our work!

Couldn't make it to one of our launches of The Oasis in March? We've got you covered! Charles will be on tour across Scotland and Ireland in April. Join us in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Galway, Cork or Paisley for festival events, readings, conversations and more —see you there! 📙 #books #poetry

Couldn't make it to one of our launches of The Oasis in March? We've got you covered! Charles will be on tour across Scotland and Ireland in April. Join us in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Galway, Cork or Paisley for festival events, readings, conversations and more —see you there! 📙 #books #poetry

Just over a year ago, two poems from this collection by @raquelmenendez.bsky.social appeared in @poetryireland.bsky.social's PIR 141; now I'm made up to say that El llibru póstumu de Sherezade has found a home just down the road at the incredible @skeinpress.bsky.social. A dream, esentially....

Something wonderful happened thanks to @robmunb.bsky.social and @skeinpress.bsky.social 🤎

On #worldpoetryday, we are delighted to announce the publication of our forthcoming poetry collection, The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad, the English translation by @robmunb.bsky.social of @raquelmenendez.bsky.social's El llibru póstumu de Sherezade (Impronta, 2017), originally written in Asturian!

I'm off to Cork today to read some poems at this really interesting conference irlsolidarities.sciencesconf.org?lang=en I'll be on tomorrow Saturday as follows 17h30–18h30: Poetry Reading: Sarah Clancy (Chair: Liz Quirke) Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

Pathfinder - The Poetry Of Eavan Boland Poetry Ireland & @tcddublin.bsky.social invite the public to celebrate the naming of the Eavan Boland Library with a special reading of her poems. 🗓️Thursday 24th April at 7pm 📍Edmund Burke Theatre, the Arts Building, TCD 🔗 bit.ly/EavanBolandE...

Happy Spring Equinox! 💚🌿 To celebrate, we're revisiting @fallowmedia.bsky.social's interdisciplinary portfolio of poems 'As If' by Charles Lang, featuring the poem 'Spring' among others, curated by Ian Maleney, with music by Michael Phoenix and Antoine Gilloire! fallowmedia.com/2021/sep/as-...

“There is only one question: how to love this world.” — from ‘Spring’ by Mary Oliver May light brighten even the darkest thought on this beautiful earth today, as we welcome the Spring 💚🌿

The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson 'Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.' www.silverpress.org/products/the...

Delighted to see a few excerpts from ‘Glasgow Sonnets’ by Charles Lang featured in @rte RTÉ Culture today! Much gratitude to Derek for spreading the good word about The Oasis, out now in bookshops across Ireland and the UK! 📚 #poetry #books #sonnets #WorldPoetryDay

No prizes for guessing where we’re going! 🛩️ 🚆 🚎 Really looking forward to seeing everyone tonight at Bàrd Books’ Debut Night, where Charles Lang will be launching The Oasis! The show starts at 7pm, last-minute tickets available here: wearebardbooks.co.uk/bard-debuts-... #poetry #booklaunch #London

The Bureau, coming March 27th

London, we’re heading your way! Join us next Wednesday 19 March at Bàrd Books to celebrate the launch of The Oasis as part of Bàrd Debuts Night! Bar opens at 6:30 pm, readings start at 7pm! Tickets £5, redeemable against any book. Make a night of it! 🎟️ : wearebardbooks.co.uk/bard-debuts-...

Stoked to see ‘New Shoes’ by Charles Lang, from his brilliant #poetry collection The Oasis, featured as Poem of the Week in today’s @scotsman.com! 👟🩶 “The Oasis is the real deal”, you heard it here first! 🤫 Pick up a copy of the paper for the full poem or treat yourself to a new book today! 📚

This St. Patrick's weekend head to #MayfieldEatery in Terenure for gorgeous food and gorgeous books! Thanks so much to Kevin for the warm welcome and for displaying the Skein collection! Delighted to add our latest book 'The Oasis' by Charles Lang. Happy St Patrick's Day weekend! 💚 🐍 ☘️

This is a great book! If I was in charge it’d be ranked a lot higher too.

A wonderful thing to see our first book, This Hostel Life by Melatu Uche Okorie, find a place on the Irish Times’ ‘100 best Irish fiction books of the 21st century’ list chosen by a panel of writers, reviewers, lit fest programmers and more! Much appreciate the shout-out! 💝 @martindoyle.bsky.social

A big crowd gathering in No Alibis, Belfast, for the launch of Charles Lang's new poetry collection The Oasis. This one is a personal favourite. What a writer.