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! 👌🏻

Lines you must never use if you write for TV or the movies: 1. It's complicated. 2. You look like shit. 3. Look at me. 4. That's so crazy it just might work.

The first review of my latest #poetry collection, 'Where All Ladders Start' (2024, Alba Publishing) is now online, with thanks to @billymills.bsky.social for his close reading and thoughtful assessment of my work.

This time last year, I had a writing residency in a cottage at Cill Rialaig near beautiful Ballinskelligs on the Iveragh peninsula in South County Kerry - winners of today’s All-Ireland football final 🥳 Anyway, this was one of the poems I wrote there. #SenryuSunday

Here’s a #haiku that I wrote this time last year, in beautiful South Kerry, on a writing retreat. And it’s fifty (50!) years this summer since I learnt how to play guitar - lessons from my big sister when I was very young! #senryusunday

I'd like to say "Can't believe noone noticed this" but I totally can.

I had a most enjoyable trip to #Dingle last week. The weather was mixed but one made the most of it. Lots of walks, reading and socialising with friends & family there. #Kerry #holidays

I had a most enjoyable trip to #Dingle last week. The weather was mixed but one made the most of it. Lots of walks, reading and socialising with friends & family there. #Kerry #holidays

"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician." - Dorothy Parker

Here’s a #haiga which combines a (popular) human-interest #haiku (senryu) of mine from the 1990s with a photo that I took of #Sandycove ten years ago, while waiting for some fish and chips. #SenryuSunday

First ice-cream of the summer. But that’s not my house, I just like Allium flowers’

First ice-cream of the summer. But that’s not my house, I just like Allium flowers’

A reminder that this FREE #workshop for #haiku beginners takes place on Fri from 2-330 in the St. Andrew’s Community Centre, as part of this year’s #Rialto #Community #Arts #Festival in #Dublin8. All welcome, no experience of creative writing is required. All event info on: rialtocommunityarts.com

This is one of the shorter pieces in my latest book - first published in Trasna journal last year. All my usual obsessions - the state of housing, feminism, and social media - crammed into 500 words. ✒️ trasna.online/claire-henne...

Bloomsday stroll - a yellow-breasted wheatear brings my heart to a halt (Published in Modern Haiku) #Bloomsday #haiku #2021

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Today is Japanese haiku master Kobayashi Issa’s birthday, so here are some of his haiku, translated by Robert Hass. This is one of my favourites (and to which I can relate)! don’t worry, spider I keep house casually www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50983/selected-haiku-by-issa #SenryuSunday

My interview with Together FM is being broadcast this Saturday 14/6 at 11am. Tune in: www.togetherfm.com 📻

Events coming up in the next wk in #Dublin: an interview on togetherfm.com, Sat 14/6 at 11am, readings from ‘Washing Windows V’ @arlenhouse.bsky.social ‬ at #Clondalkin N. Library, Tue 17/6 at 6 & a #haiku #poetry #workshop for rialtocommunityarts.com on Fri 20/6 at 2 in St. Andrews Community Centre

My interview with Together FM is being broadcast this Saturday 14/6 at 11am. Tune in: www.togetherfm.com 📻

For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.

Events coming up in the next wk in #Dublin: an interview on togetherfm.com, Sat 14/6 at 11am, readings from ‘Washing Windows V’ @arlenhouse.bsky.social ‬ at #Clondalkin N. Library, Tue 17/6 at 6 & a #haiku #poetry #workshop for rialtocommunityarts.com on Fri 20/6 at 2 in St. Andrews Community Centre

Events coming up in the next wk in #Dublin: an interview on togetherfm.com, Sat 14/6 at 11am, readings from ‘Washing Windows V’ @arlenhouse.bsky.social ‬ at #Clondalkin N. Library, Tue 17/6 at 6 & a #haiku #poetry #workshop for rialtocommunityarts.com on Fri 20/6 at 2 in St. Andrews Community Centre

Day out in #Powerscourt House & Gardens (County #Wicklow) yesterday. I hadn’t been there for 20-30 years, and had forgotten how lovely it was.

I wrote this a year ago, and am about to embark on another year of gowning duties, tomorrow night in the Round Room of the Mansion House in #Dublin (where our Lord Mayor lives). #senryusunday

I wrote this a year ago, and am about to embark on another year of gowning duties, tomorrow night in the Round Room of the Mansion House in #Dublin (where our Lord Mayor lives). #senryusunday

Join us to celebrate the launch of Sam Furlong's debut poetry collection CROWD WORK in association with @poetryireland.bsky.social. Wednesday, May 28th, 6:30 pm @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. Free tickets available via Eventbrite, all very welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-cro...