A valentine's card for bibliophiles. For @theguardian.com books. Download a printable version here: www.tomgauld.com/valentine

Spring is springing in one of my local parks in #Dublin. The daffs aren’t quite blooming yet, but getting there…

not asking for much in the flimsy winter weeds the first snail of spring

Spring is springing in one of my local parks in #Dublin. The daffs aren’t quite blooming yet, but getting there…

‘The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Great to see the old Central Hotel in #Dublin reopened, including the beautiful Library Bar, one of my favourite former (and now future) haunts - just a bit smaller than it was previously. I interviewed the stellar New York poet Samuel Menashe in there, many moons ago!

Beautiful Connemara, I was lucky to spend the last couple of days there…

Remembering Michael Longley, who sadly passed away a year ago today.

A Dublin #painting from way back. "Seven Buildings, Four Stories" was painted out of a love of buildings, the shapes they throw at you, and how they talk to a street. #art #SpeirGhorm

Art is good for mental health? Not when you’re a novelist in poverty | Letter www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

@karlwhitney.ie 👋🏻

All hail #Emmylou, onstage in #Dublin tonight. What an incredible artist, 78 years young! 🌟

All hail #Emmylou, onstage in #Dublin tonight. What an incredible artist, 78 years young! 🌟

RIP Séan Ó Sé. What a singer, amhránaí den scoth. 🎶 I love his version of Maidin i mBéarra ❤️https://open.spotify.com/track/3X9bHIo377cq0MuxYPYqjM?si=-9YoQSgfTj64W3kmj2siNQ

RIP Séan Ó Sé. What a singer, amhránaí den scoth. 🎶 I love his version of Maidin i mBéarra ❤️https://open.spotify.com/track/3X9bHIo377cq0MuxYPYqjM?si=-9YoQSgfTj64W3kmj2siNQ

"It's not the same as Twitter", friend Twitter isn't the same as Twitter. Old Twitter died years ago, we need to accept that almost no-one under 30 is interested in joining text-based social media - the format will die with us, like floppy discs, Mars Delights, and the concept of hope for the future

Last chance to book your place on my workshop this weekend!

Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh! 👯🍸🎄

A sign of the times? The newspapers which used to be at the front of this bookshop have been moved down the back and have been replaced by rows and rows of Oirish merch, a la Carrolls! ☘️

@roisinnineachtain.com Thanks for the repost 🙏🏻

Bookings have been brisk for this workshop, I’m glad to say, but there are still some places available, in case you or anyone you know might be interested. Any and all likes, tags and shares are greatly appreciated! 🙏🏻

Bookings have been brisk for this workshop, I’m glad to say, but there are still some places available, in case you or someone you know might be interested…any and all likes, tags and shares are greatly appreciated 🙏🏻

Only Human is a new journal of English-language senryu that explores what it means to be human. Submissions open February 1, and our inaugural issue will be released in April. In the meantime, visit our website to check out our guidelines and meet the editors at www.onlyhumansenryu.com.

Happy New Year to all my old and new friends on BlueSky 🥳

Happy New Year to all my old and new friends on BlueSky 🥳

First visit to Loch Lomond today, hopefully not my last! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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...

‘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