@martinadalton.bsky.social Thanks for the RT & congrats on your forthcoming collection! 🥳

For writers wanting to explore scríbhneoireacht i nGaeilge, Ola Majekodunmi is here with her beginner's guide! ☘️ Reserve your space here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/a-be...

There's a gorgeous (& free) #exhibition of felted artworks by members of Feltmakers Ireland, currently on view at the Phoenix Park Visitors’ Centre in #Dublin. The title / theme is ‘Water and Flow’. Well worth a visit. Link to the online catalogue on their site: feltmakersireland.com/feltmakers-i...

Just a bit of notice that I’ll be leading a beginners’ in-person #workshop in #haiku #poetry as part of this year’s Intl Litfest in #Dublin, @ilfdublin.bsky.social. It takes place on Sun 17/5 at 3pm and will include a ginko / walk around Merrion Square. (Cost €18/16). ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

@ireneaddie.bsky.social Hi Amy. I see you’ve got a haiku by GR on your page here. Are you aware of the fact that he died on Monday? His funeral took place today in Dublin. RIP.

Just a bit of notice that I’ll be leading a beginners’ in-person #workshop in #haiku #poetry as part of this year’s Intl Litfest in #Dublin, @ilfdublin.bsky.social. It takes place on Sun 17/5 at 3pm and will include a ginko / walk around Merrion Square. (Cost €18/16). ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

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.

Spotted in #Wexford during the week, with a strange vandalism pattern! #PostboxSaturday

I’m pleased to report that copies of my latest collection, ‘Where All Ladders Start’ (2024, Alba Publ.), are now available in Red Books in #Wexford, thanks to Wally & Nuala. While there, I also got to see the Billy Roche play ‘Of Mornington’ at the Wexford Arts Centre (love the new-ish extension) 😊

I’m pleased to report that copies of my latest collection, ‘Where All Ladders Start’ (2024, Alba Publ.), are now available in Red Books in #Wexford, thanks to Wally & Nuala. While there, I also got to see the Billy Roche play ‘Of Mornington’ at the Wexford Arts Centre (love the new-ish extension) 😊

It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece

The full series of Leonard and Hungry Paul is now available on the RTE Player. Shyness is nice, as Morrissey once sang in the good old days. www.rte.ie/player/serie...

@krislindbeck.bsky.social Thanks for the RT!

fifty-something: the birthday book of my youth used for deaths now too Published in ‘Abridged’, April 2016 and collected in ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba Publishing) #SenryuSunday

Happy (‘fifty-something’) Birthday to @jennfel.bsky.social, the founder of #SenryuSunday 🥳

fifty-something: the birthday book of my youth used for deaths now too Published in ‘Abridged’, April 2016 and collected in ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba Publishing) #SenryuSunday

I really enjoyed this excellent workshop today, thanks very much! A great way to spend part of #WorldPoetryDay

Beautiful.

Stumbled across this: The root of "female" has nothing to do with "male". It derives from the Mediaeval Latin femella, a diminutive of femina, a woman. It was mistakenly transcribed in Middle English as "female", perhaps creating the impression that a woman is a version/variant/ subset of a man.

Happy #IWD2026 I’ve been working on this kickass playlist, have a listen 🎶 Wimmin’s playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/0Gk...

Happy #IWD2026 I’ve been working on this kickass playlist, have a listen 🎶 Wimmin’s playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/0Gk...

Happy IWD - for the girls we were & the women we have become. #nostalgia

There’s a theory that a poet’s work tends toward one of four major axes—poetry of the body, poetry of the mind, poetry of the heart, or poetry of the soul. Where would you place your work, if at all?

Here’s a #haiku and some pics, all inspired by a return visit to a chilly #Amsterdam around a year ago. #senryusunday

On my blog, I’ve listed links to 50+ active journals that take short-form poetry like haiku & tanka (not all have open submission periods atm) & another 40ish that are defunct. Enjoy! starsinmysugarbowl.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/p... #haiku #tanka #cherita #haibun #poetry #senryu #amwriting #poets

Here’s a #haiku and some pics, all inspired by a return visit to a chilly #Amsterdam around a year ago. #senryusunday

What a star! And she can sing too! 🌟

This #haiku got second prize in the Seashores Journal ‘Kukai’ (competition) in #Dublin last week. I decided to pair it with a photo from the same day, to create a #haiga. Both inspired outside Glasgow, #Scotland in late December.

This is a great opportunity for emerging poets. Deadline 8/3/26

From a walk on Appledore beach: obituary a ragged ribbon of tide returns to the sea #haiku #obituary #tides

There's only a couple of weeks left to submit to the Abridged Elixir Submission Call! We don't encourage tardiness! See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info!

Well done Norway! 🇳🇴

Two good pieces of #haiku news in the last week: ‘stone labyrinth’ (inspired in #Scotland) got 2nd prize in last week’s Seashores ‘kukai’ competition and my #senryu sequence appears in the new issue of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social 😊 Here are the first two senryu…

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