At the link, the best of The Marginalian this week in one place – Ursula K. Le Guin on our resistance to change and how to live fully, H.G. Wells on when friends become lovers, and how to bioluminesce: mailchi.mp/themarginali...

On these in-between days I’m ‘growing down’, sinking into the present moment and savouring small delights | Nadine Levy

Man Lost In Netherworld Between Christmas & New Year's Which Knows No Time Or Date https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2023/12/28/man-lost-in-netherworld-between-christmas-new-years-which-knows-no-time-or-date/

For all Michael Hartnett fans - some Christmas reading all together in the one place. Click in and out as you wish …. vinhanley.com/2023/11/03/t...

Announcing my upcoming online workshop in #haiku and related forms @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. It will run (in the evenings) for four weeks from Monday 12th January. All likes / shares / mentions much appreciated! 🙏🏻 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/japa...

‘canal trip our minds slowing to barge time’ #monoku #senryusunday #wintersolstice

‘canal trip our minds slowing to barge time’ #monoku #senryusunday #wintersolstice

A number of bookings have been made for this workshop but there are still some places available…

Maeve's workshops are great. Treat yourself. It's Christmas!

A number of bookings have been made for this workshop but there are still some places available…

Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.

Maeve is a master of the art - sounds like a lovely way to spend some dark evenings after Christmas!

Learn short form poetry with the excellent Maeve or gift a course to a friend!

@paulduane.bsky.social Thanks for the RT and Merry Christmas 🎄

Announcing my upcoming online workshop in #haiku and related forms @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. It will run (in the evenings) for four weeks from Monday 12th January. All likes / shares / mentions much appreciated! 🙏🏻 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/japa...

One of two of my ‘ku which appear in the current issue of Femku (online #haikai journal) has been nominated by them for a 2025 Touchstone Award (for a Single Poem) - yay! It’s this one: southbound bus… a woman talks about Jesus on the upper deck #senryusunday

One of two of my ‘ku which appear in the current issue of Femku (online #haikai journal) has been nominated by them for a 2025 Touchstone Award (for a Single Poem) - yay! It’s this one: southbound bus… a woman talks about Jesus on the upper deck #senryusunday

I’m delighted that this short #haibun (prose & #haiku form) of mine, ‘Transformation’, inspired by a special memory of my late sister Jean, appears in the brand new issue of CHO. contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...

A beautiful poem (and such a great detail about @maevedos.bsky.social's father). Kudos to all.

I’m delighted that this short #haibun (prose & #haiku form) of mine, ‘Transformation’, inspired by a special memory of my late sister Jean, appears in the brand new issue of CHO. contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-con...

Sweating at Heathrow border control because I’ve swallowed 15 copies of uncut Intermezzo

This sonnet of mine, inspired by #Dublin’s Poolbeg chimneys, was recently published in the Stony Thursday Book, publ. by the Limerick Arts Office. My poet-friend Maurice Devitt shared it on his FB page & a gent called CP Ravikumar decided to illustrate it, with the help of AI. I love the result ❤️

It was an honour to present the prizes today @smockalley.bsky.social to the 2025 winners of the Duais Basho / Basho Award for secondary students & to give a speech, after delivering #haiku workshops as part of the project. Comhghairdeas do na buaiteoirí, @liamcarson.bsky.social & do foireann Imram

I was there yesterday evening too, it was great! I feel sorry for the organisers today, with the foul weather in Dublin #orangewarning

I was there yesterday evening too, it was great! I feel sorry for the organisers today, with the foul weather in Dublin #orangewarning

All Saints’ Day: a small Superman costume on the barrio balcony Medellín, Colombia, 2016 From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba) #senryusunday

Birdsong is something that can be a vital part of your well-being for years without you noticing or appreciating it, like having intact internal organs.

All Saints’ Day: a small Superman costume on the barrio balcony Medellín, Colombia, 2016 From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba) #senryusunday

74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️ Maeve O'Sullivan’s poetry & haikai have been widely published, anthologised & translated. She has six collections, the latest being Where All Ladders Start (2024). She leads workshops in haiku. The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

cousins' meet-up -- getting used to being the older generation 'Wasp on the Prayer Flag', Alba Publishing, 2021 #senryusunday This has been chosen for the upcoming week’s reader consideration and commentaries at The Haiku Foundation's re:Virals feature: thehaikufoundation.org/revirals-526/

I’m thrilled that my last #haiku collection, Wasp on the Prayer Flag (2021, Alba), is Book of the Week on THF. My publisher & I made it available in their digital library, after it went out of print, along with my two other haiku collections, Initial Response (2011) & A Train Hurtles West (2015) 📚

I’m thrilled that my last #haiku collection, Wasp on the Prayer Flag (2021, Alba), is Book of the Week on THF. My publisher & I made it available in their digital library, after it went out of print, along with my two other haiku collections, Initial Response (2011) & A Train Hurtles West (2015) 📚

Spotted in the window of a small #Dublin City centre gallery. #Tayto #nationalinstitution

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public. dublinsmallpressfair.com

Spotted in the window of a small #Dublin City centre gallery. #Tayto #nationalinstitution

#Dublin City welcoming NFL players and supporters this weekend. We’ve been playing gaelic football matches in the US since 1886 so I guess it’s our turn to host now.

#Dublin City welcoming NFL players and supporters this weekend. We’ve been playing gaelic football matches in the US since 1886 so I guess it’s our turn to host now.

The irony of a show full of people wanting to win a house deposit being murdered one by one by an estate agent #TraitorsIRL

things I’d forgotten about my old friend — obituary Written in September 2019 and published in Femku journal in October 2019. #senryusunday

@iamagnat.bsky.social Thanks for the RT, Clodagh!

Recent Releases... any on your reading list? All on www.kennys.ie

Here’s my offering for this week’s #senryusunday, in two languages! I wrote it around a year ago. A contrast to tonight’s lunar eclipse! 🌒

Here's a monoku that I wrote four years ago this month: 'bank holiday black salt darkening cucumber slices'. It took three years to find a home but was eventually published in The Pan Haiku Review Issue 3, July 2024. #senryusunday

Ten years ago, my sibs and I cleared & sold our family home, a year after our Mum's death (our Dad had pre-deceased her). I found letting go of the garden as hard as letting go of the house. This was published in Blithe Spirit. #senryusunday childhood swing long gone from here - wild mushrooms

"My iPhone has deduced that I have a new partner. Ever since he and I took that trip to Paris after the final Covid lockdown, it’s been presenting me with automatic slideshows" Wonderful haibun from @maevedos.bsky.social. Love the light humour in this: www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/OSull...

Here’s a wee poem I wrote two years ago this month, in the marvellous Majestic Café in the beautiful city of Porto in Northern Portugal. ☕️ 🍰 #senryusunday

Fantastic gig by the legendary Mick Hanly in Small Changes in #Inchicore last night. My friend Ursula and I got to chat to him afterwards, and reminisce about gigs of his that we’d attended in the 1990s in #Dublin City. He’s still in top form! 👌🏻