Villa of Poppaea, detail of Roman fresco of a bird, c.70AD.

It's come around fast, but it's here at last: your final chance to try out for a place in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027. Fewer than 20 spaces remain – so head over to iambapoet.com/audition before 23:59 BST today and submit your poem. Auditions won't reopen till Sep 2027, so don't wait!! 😉

💫💫💫 Hurray! @merrildsmith.bsky.social beautiful new collection ‘Held Inside the Folds of Time’ has arrived💫 published by @janecornwell.bsky.social Congratulations Merril! 💐🥂⭐️

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V Aisling Keogh is a writer & psychotherapist, who lives in County Galway. Her writing has appeared in place like The Irish Independent, The Honest Ulsterman, Crannog Magazine, Wordlegs and Ropes. The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Pixie Bruner is a writer, editor, cancer survivor & the 2025 Rhysling Award Chair. She lives in Atlanta, GA, with a doppelgänger and their cats.   The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

Theme of #PLAY inspired by #NationalPoetryDay on next Tuesday TopTweetTuesday on Twitter. #writing #poetry #writingcommunity

Heading into the adventures of hosting TopTweetTuesday on Twitter with next week’s theme - ‘PLAY’ - is Eleanor North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social #poetry #writing #writingprompt #nationalpoetryday

“It was very difficult for us to write about Dublin because Dublin had been done — Joyce had devoured the city,” says John Banville to Neil Jordan in this trailer for video 3, Dublin, One City, Many Stories @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social The full video drops 30 Sept

Book your free ticket to hear the mesmerising poetic voice of @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social on Sunday 5th October, 3pm, UK time 🎫 🎙️

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⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Fionn Andrews is a writer from Dublin, Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He was a Poetry Ireland Introductions Series participant in 2024.   The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social Arrives Nov 2025

✨BOOK NOW!!! ✨ Come along and support poet @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social and guests on our launch night for 'Drench Me in Silver'. We'd love to see you! Book below. October 5th, 3PM, UK time. 🌘 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-... #poetry #writing #booklaunch

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V @seanmcnicholl.bsky.social is an Irish GP and writer. His work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, as well as for Best of the Net and Best Microfiction. He lives in county Armagh.   The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Fiona O’Rourke is a Pushcart nominated author/Arts Council Ireland funded writer. Her work has been published in journals and anthologies, broadcasted & translated. fionaO.substack.com   The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

Every poet involved in this (host included) is superb, and has appeared in @iambapoet.com ... or will do, soon enough. 😉 DM @victoriaspires.bsky.social, get the skinny, go along. It's a perfect night in!

Watch the catherinegalway.bsky.social campaign launch live stream on youtube here 7pm tonight👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5wjuWnGkvY #speirgorm

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ David Hanlon is a poet based in Cardiff, Wales. His work has appeared in numerous magazines including Rust & Moth, Barren Magazine, and trampset. His latest collection is Dawn's Incision.   The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Ellen Harrold is an Irish artist, writer, & editor-in-chief of Metachrosis Literary. She uses painting, drawing, text, and textiles to explore anatomy, physics, and ecology. ellenharrold.art   Supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

Meet the Issue V Stormers Mo Schoenfeld’s work appears in Irisi Magazine, Fevers of the Mind, Wombwell Rainbow, Haiku Crush’s Best Haiku 2021-2024, Sidhé Press’s Our Own Coordinates: Poems & A Thousand Shades of Green podcast   The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

A brilliant poetry masterclass by the amazing @helenlaycock.bsky.social 🌟

Helen’s fine poem is accompanied by an informative account of the process, a movement from interest, research, image into the necessities of the poem. Insightful and valuable

The insecure & atomistic neuroses in modern capitalism now have a politically sanctioned outlet: irrational hatred. Whether rich & unaccountable or poor & desperate, you can vent aggression on the powerless - trans people, immigrants - & your ego will be bolstered, since you’re praised for doing so.

Copies flying out of the #poetry book of the Autumn 🍂 🌒 🌊 ✨ @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s ‘Drench Me in Silver’. Get one now! www.blackboughpoetry.com/louise-mache...

Damien & issue co-editor @rhonagreene.bsky.social, are bright lights, who bring beauty to the world w/their talent, their own works, & their generous, genuine support, lifting other artists. It's an honour and a thrill to have a #poem included! #poetry #prose #art #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

💫🌸💫🌸💫🌸💫 Look what’s just arrived! @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social beautiful debut collection ‘Drench Me in Silver’ published @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social💫 I’m ready to be drenched in this font of luscious poetry✨ Congratulations Saraswati! 💫🌸💫🌸💫🌸💫

Meet the Stormers of Issue V Asa Williams is a writer & academic whose work explores the intersections of folklore, music, and history. His writing has appeared in The Razor, NARC Magazine, and The Gay & Lesbian Review. The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

Meet the Stormers of Issue V @missyerem.bsky.social is a poet & EIC of Sídhe Press. She has been published many places including iamb, The Storms, The Dirigible Balloon & DREICH. Her heart & work as a publisher is now focused on Palestine. The Storms is supported by #fingalart #dublincityoflit

Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Ashish Kamur Singh is a queer Indian poet with a Master’s Degree in English Literature & poems in Poetry Wales, The Stinging Fly, Frontier Poetry, The Bombay Literary magazine & more. The Storms is supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

Have at this new #poetrytheme initiative, folks. Paul cares about language, so you can be sure his curation and commentary will be thoughtful, insightful and encouraging.

Poets, the time is NOW ... and through till Sept 27th, when the window for auditions (submissions) for (to) @iambapoet.com closes. I'm looking to fill a whole eight waves worth of the journal across 2026/27 – so don't be shy! Go to the Audition page, and give me your best. iambapoet.com/audition

**AUDITIONS NOW OPEN TILL SEP 27** Want three of your poems with text and recordings of you reading them to feature in popular online poetry quarterly @iambapoet.com? You now have just 7 days to audition for your place in a wave in either 2026 or 2027. Good luck! 🍀 iambapoet.com/audition

Committed to the next 7 Black Bough anthologies/ editions/ collections. I wonder who will be on the roster from 2027 onwards? #poetry #WritingCommunity #writing

This was the week of submitting @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social ‘Drench Me in Silver’ for the Tagore prize (cover by Swapna Maini ) #books #poetry #indianliterature

Writing in action. Black Bough author @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social during the writing of ‘Drench Me in Silver’ #poetry #books #newbooks #readers - get this book at www.blackboughpoetry.com/louise-mache...

Thank you, Helen. I'm so touched by your generous compliments. 'Lutein' was the first poem I'd had published. And it was, of course, in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

The book they’re all talking about - @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social - ‘Drench Me in Silver’ . #books #litcommunity #writingcommunity #poetry www.blackboughpoetry.com/louise-mache...

Our #writingprompt for TopTweetTuesday on Twitter next week. #writing #poetry

Very pleased to be part of Wave 23 @iambapoet.com lots to discover here, poems about Amber Bears and Sea Potatoes and Archeologists amongst the Flowers and the Angels.. recordings up alongside the poems, perfect coffee break material...

@julwe1.bsky.social Hi Julia see link below for The Artefact on iamb - we spoke about this a little while ago after a Last Saturday with @louisepoetical.bsky.social - hi Louise, may be of interest as well! All best to both, SWx

To make @iambapoet.com's position on plagiarism unmistakably clear, the journal operates a strict zero-tolerance policy. If ever a poet is proven to have stolen or repurposed any part of any work by another writer, their page will be deleted. The space they leave will go to a more deserving poet.

Was an absolute pleasure working with this cohort of consummate professionals to bring wave twenty-three of @iambapoet.com to birth. I'm glad to have had the chance to publish their poems – many of which are first-publication exclusives. Visit, read, listen, share. Because iamb is what you make it.

🌧️ ☔️ 🌧️ ☔️ 🌧️ ☔️ 🌧️ Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) By the wonderful @manchanmagan.bsky.social with gorgeous illustrations by Megan Luddy 🌧️ ☔️ 🌧️ ☔️ 🌧️ ☔️ 🌧️

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Chris Jones was born in New York, grew up in Kerry & now lives in Dublin. His work has appeared in Writing Home: The New Irish Poets, Poems to Tide You Over by Dedalus Press, The Irish Independent & more. The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublincityoflit

For the evening crowd, went live today wave 23 from @iambapoet.com Mark has put together a terrific poetry party 🎉 go have a read or a sit back and listen to some fabulous voices!

@iambapoet.com I’m very excited to be an iamb poet! And in wonderful company in wave 23. Thank you @markantonyowen.com for bringing me into the family!

I'm absolutely thrilled to have 3 peoms featured in iamb. Check out Accountability Badger, Excuse, and Pygmy Hippo at iambpoet.com/wave/23

I have recently come across Wren’s beautiful poetry where imagery and nature seamlessly co-exist. Wren was featured at Wave 22 of @iambapoet.com If you haven’t yet discovered either this poet, or this platform, you’re welcome. ❤️

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Holly Castleton is in Texas A&M for a PhD in English Literature. Her poetry has appeared in Rue Scribe by Underwood Press, From Arthur’s Seat and Gently Mad Literary Magazine.   The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublincityoflit Arrives Nov

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Maudie Bryant is a Pushcart-nominated poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, identity, and the disquiet beneath the surface. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana The Storms is supported by #fingalarts #dublincityoflit Arrives Nov

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V @silicasun.bsky.social is an internationally published multi-genre writer of prose and poetry. She has won awards and earned multiple nominations for her writing.   The Storms is supported by #FingalArts & #DublinUNESCOCityofLit Arrives Nov