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...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

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

NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you. Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked! But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊 1/

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.

Conferred with my PhD blu this morning @unioflimerick.bsky.social- a fabulous occasion, beautifully choreographed, uplifting positive speeches, inclusive and celebratory. Associate Professor Mariano Paz, one of my supervisors, presented me with my cap. All the hard work is so worth it. #ULGraduation

Northern Lights making a watercolour of Lough Derg. #NorthernLights

Aurora Borealis over the majestic River Shannon this evening. #NorthernLights

Looking forward to reading with Alan McMonagle. Amy Barry & Marion Moynihan at the #PoetryLobby on January 27. The event is hosted by poet Anne Donnellan. #Poetry @poetryireland.bsky.social www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/the...

✨ Spring Series 2026 with the newly appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry, Vona Groarke. Vona Groarke will open the series with a public lecture at Trinity College Dublin on Thurs 26 Feb. 🔗 Booking via: www.eventbrite.ie/e/vona-groar... 📷 Joe Shaughnessy

We are delighted that the first Southword Poetry Podcast of 2026 is out now with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and is available to listen to on our website - southword.buzzsprout.com/share #podcast

Join us for the first instalment of The Poetry Lobby for 2026, presented in association with Poetry Ireland, and hosted by Anne Donnellan! 📅 Sunday, January 25th 🕒3:00pm-5:00pm 📍Menlo Park Hotel, Galway 🎫Free entry, Donations Welcome

Beyond excited to share the news that my first poetry collection, Midnight at the Saltmarsh, will be published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social in May 2026! 💫✨

. @deptcultureirl.bsky.social & Patrick O’Donovan TD - it would be pretty awesome if you could help us save #TheComplex, a crucial inner Dublin city location for artists and the arts - the deadline to preserve #TheComplex is looming, we’re still hopeful of a last minute intervention. #Irish #Artists

Fascinating discussion about frenemies yesterday, fascinating too that MacKay's poem came up. #poetry

‘Through the Ears of a Fish’ from my collection ‘Of Ochre and Ash’ (Dedalus Press) Thanks so much to poet Maurice Devitt, curator at the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies for posting my poem on their social media. #poetry #PoetsSupportingPoets

New Year’s Day 2026 Shannon one Design calendar ⛵️

Saddened to hear the news of Seamus O'Brien, a dear, kind friend to our family. He will be greatly missed. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam #Botanist www.independent.ie/regionals/wi...

Her work in Creative Writing participatory action research continues with her project 'Making Space for NHS Voices' with University Hospitals Tees, where she recently launched The Writers' Nook alongside the arts committee of North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.

Fantastic news, huge congratulations @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing Practice with @ouliterature.bsky.social - as a graduate from the OU, I can only say lucky, lucky students! #Poetry #CreativeWriting

“What If It’s Not Writer’s Block? Niall Campbell contemplates the other reason writing stops” @northseapoets.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Last walk of the day and frost-defying, brave daffodils are arrived above ground…so early. Too early? #Daddodils 🌼

The third and final part of our Books of the Year special is now online, featuring choices from John Lavin @maryodonnell.bsky.social @tazrahman.bsky.social @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @devaneemily.bsky.social @glynedwards.bsky.social Jackie Gorman & Penny Simpson. thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/14/b...

It's a great honour to judge the inaugural Three Pillars Press Poetry Pamphlet Awards. Congratulations to poets Ger Duffy and @billyfenton.bsky.social on this great initiative. #Poetry www.facebook.com/share/v/1H8H...

Stopped in Tuamgraney today to walk Prof. before continuing the drive home - passed the entrance to Edna O’Brien’s homeplace. #EdnaOBrien

Vanessa Fielding, CEO & Artistic Director of #TheComplex and George Hooker, artist with studio space there, both interviewed in today’s @IrishTimes.com If you can, please sign the petition below to save this inner city Dublin site for #artists, their #art and #culture my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa...

Please help save #TheComplex, a vital #cultural and #artistic space in the heart of Dublin town. Artists need these rare affordable studios in which to work, create and collaborate. Please sign the petition and share. my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa...

. @president.ie so sad to hear that #TheComplex in Dublin, a hive of cultural & artistic activity (& where so many of us attended your Presidential campaign) is to close Jan ‘26, to be demolished & replaced by a hotel! #Artists need their affordable spaces to work, Dublin doesn’t need another hotel!

"34-year secret shrouded in shame paved the way to teach children about the horrors of our past. For 34 years Madeleine Walsh lived with her secret in shame. Now she wants schoolchildren to learn about the horrors of Ireland’s past -Aoife Kelleher" @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Last walk of the day - the plough and the stars, O’Ryan too… #stargazing

Winter Stars, a stunningly evocative poem by Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin #poetry

‘Heaney on the Underground - Don Paterson on Seamus Heaney's choice of words’ #NorthSeaPoets #Poetry @northseapoets.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Awesome news, huge congratulations @elainefeeney.bsky.social votes #AuthorOfTheYear by the Library Association of Ireland @irishbookawards.bsky.social

Otter in the boathouse today. #Otter 🦦

Silence from my collection ‘A Tug of Blue’ (Dedalus Press) Thanks so much to Irish Centre for Poetry Studies for posting my poem earlier. #poetry #PoetsSupportingPoets