Over the weekend, one of the tables outside the tea room at Arlington Court, Devon, was cordoned off - because a robin built a cosy little nest inside the umbrella! To give them some peace and avoid disturbance, we've temporarily closed off the area until they choose to move on. 📷 Barry Edwards

Gabriel Rosenstock imithe ar shlí na fírinne. Laoch ar lár. Croíbhriste. My dear friend and wonderful poet Gabriel Rosenstock has left us. He was one of a kind.

My debut poetry collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, will be published in May by @thegallerypress.bsky.social To have this beautiful Paul Henry painting, ‘Incoming Tide, Achill’, as the cover is beyond my wildest dreams! 🌕 🌊 Available to pre-order ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ gallerypress.com/product/midn...

Autumn, a gorgeous, sensual poem by Jamie O’Halloran @jamieohalloran108.bsky.social from her collection ‘Ballast’ #poetry

Poetry and Politics - Peter Sirr’s fascinating essay that asks ‘What use is poetry?’ #Essay in the Dublin Review of Books drb.ie/article/poet...

Nocturne - A new poem from Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in the latest issue of Dublin Review of Books #Poetry drb.ie/article/noct...

Love this poem ‘A Bit of Bad Language’ from Philip Lynch’s collection ‘Moving On’ @salmonpoetry.bsky.social #Poetry

from Longfellow’s The Old Clock on the Stairs #Clocks #MovingTime #SummerTime

Just read - ‘The Lock-Keeper’s Wife @lilliputpress.bsky.social , a beautiful, tender book, by John MacKenna #Novel #ReadBooks

One of the greatest Irish novels, unpacking the obligations of family & documenting an Ireland of stifling morality, thankfully long gone. McGahern excels at small-town claustrophobia and there is no better chronicler of Leitrim's green lanes. Honoured to write this foreword. @faberbooks.bsky.social

Homemade pesto from wild garlic.

If you know these things, you won’t slip your moorings in heavy weather. Hold fast, you say, our lake is as alone as the mind before calm returns, and as handsome as a scatter of starlings in the winter sky. Eleanor Hooker ‘Murmuration’ #IrishPoetry

Wild geese trumpeting over the house. #WildGeese

Mother of Pearl cloud and a beautiful sunset. #home #LoughDerg

Arrived in the post today (poetry post is the best post!) Absolutely gorgeous poems by Cian Ferriter in ‘Earth’s Black Chute’, his chapbook with Southword Editions @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social #poetry

Now that Bessbo is in the news again, here is my response to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s extraordinary poem ‘Bessboro’ in ‘Second Voyages: Writers on poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin @thegallerypress.bsky.social #Poetry

Bessboro Mother & Baby Home: Between 1943 and 1944 there was a reported 82% infant mortality rate. Eight decades ago,the State abandoned a threatened investigation into the Bessborough mother and baby institution, despite the deaths of nearly 700 children. #spéirghorm www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

‘Every Gazan student in Ireland is haunted by what they cannot express’ by Abdallah Aljazzar, studying for a masters in literature of engagement at Maynooth University, where he is the programme co-ordinator for students coming from Gaza’ via Irish Examiner www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Heard a curlew on our walk above the lake yesterday. #Curlew #ForTheBirds

Besotted with this cover 😭💚

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Praying Mantis

Our Spring 2026 issue is here! New work from Jhumpa Lahiri, Jorie Graham, Aria Aber, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more. Read it here: yalereview.org/issues/sprin...

Yes! Huge congratulations Jessie Buckley. #Hamnet

Saw Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride’ last evening. Outstanding! Jessie Buckley is formidable in the titular role. Her performance, range, voice, rage, fearlessness, fearfulness, dance, vulnerability, is truly mesmerising. I wish #JessieBuckley every success at the #Oscars tonight.

Render proofs are out in the world! So excited for us to share this brilliantly inventive collection with you all ✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

Join us for the first #NorthSeaPoets live event 🌊 The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry and music Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, John Glenday, Lesley Harrison, Lisa Brockwell with music from David Ogilvy & Don Paterson 🗓️ 7pm BST, Friday 3rd April 📍 Cortachy Kirk 🎟️ £12/£10 buff.ly/SQoQR38

BREAKING: The UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the ongoing war. Follow AP’s live updates.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6230: Writing is freedom. You are free to write whatever you like, in whatever way you like. You're free to take advice, or not. You're free to describe the real world, or to build it differently. Your successes, your mistakes, your decisions belong to you. Own them.

We're thrilled that RENDER by Billy Ramsell, forthcoming from Banshee Press in June, has been recommended by the Poetry Book Society in their Summer Selections, curated by Victoria Kennefick, Fred D'Aguiar, Leo Boix, Alycia Pirmohamed and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/a...

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

Having a dedicated chair of Irish History at #Cambridge will help future generations of British students acquire a deeper understanding of Irish history. Cambridge, which also hosts an annual Parnell Fellowship at #Magdalene College, is now well served for Irish studies. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

At the Brontë Parsonage in 2017 I got to write a line of #WutheringHeights, part of an art project by Clare Twoney to 're-create' Emily Brontë's lost MS - as part of the 2018 bicentenary celebrations of #EmilyBrontë’s birth. Details on Twoney’s website. www.claretwomey.com/projects_-_w...

Ireland Professor of #Poetry Vona Groarke will deliver her first public lecture at @tcddublin on 26 February - details below. It’s a free event. Vona is a fine poet. Her talk is sure to be interesting. www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar...

THE THREE SISTERS: The Brontës, as they have never been seen before. An article by Peter Ackroyd @NewYorker, September 11, 1995 #Brontës www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

Lough Derg last evening.

Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America: Considering the role of blackness and black bodies in the American literary canon. via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/toni-morriso...

Current read, highly recommended by Carlo Gèbler. Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets by Clair Wills, published by Allen Lane, an imprint of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Join us for an evening of conversation and music with Neil Hegarty and Iarla Ó Lionáird to celebrate the publication of Nicholas Allen’s Late Heaney. 📅 Saturday 28th February ⏰ 7.30pm 🎟️£15 Secure your tickets here > tinyurl.com/4k4e7avx @neilhegarty.bsky.social @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social

Totally love how @realgdt.bsky.social gets a child’s fear/awe of the monsters in the shadows - listen to Guillermo del Toro talk so eloquently on his art and craft with @johnwilson14.bsky.social @thisculturallife.bsky.social #ThisCulturalLife www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thoroughly enjoying Anne Enright’s book ‘Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World’ @thewrengirl.bsky.social #Essays

[email protected] is producing #PlaguePoems by 7 poets at #TheSalvagePress. Am in fab company w/ Elaine Feeney, Supriya Dhaliwal, John FitzGerald, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Gerard Smyth & Jessica Traynor Thanks also to Ellen Martin-Friel & Elize de Beer www.thesalvagepress.com/on-press/ann...

Wudja look at this!! Very proud to be published by The Lilliput Press, and am in love with my book's beautiful cover ❤️‍🔥

As part of National Grief Awareness Week, I've partnered with the Irish Hospice Foundation to share some writings on the subject. This piece was an attempt to trace the odd, circuitous routes that grief takes over decades. #NGAW2026 #IrishHospiceFoundation www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Wraiths, frantic over the surface of the lake tonight. #LoughDerg

The light today #LoughDerg

This morning's optical phenomenon: a #Brocken #spectre around my head in #fog shortly after sunrise. It's unusual to see it at ground level - usually seen from aircraft over clouds. It's distinct from a #Heiligenschein, which produces a #halo around the observer's shadowed head from dew reflection.