Can't wait for the Dublin launch of New Arcana, happening tomorrow at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social with the wonderful Seán Hewitt. Come join us 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

📕Lots of new releases coming in October! Here is just a small sample (of over 150 titles)—check out our fully searchable database First Flush 📕 booksirelandmagazine.com/new-releases/ @bansheepress.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚 Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work! bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

New Arcana is Book of the Week over on @rte.ie Culture! ✨️🔮 With a wonderfully insightful and considered review by James Patterson. My year is made! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨ bansheepress.org/read/celebra...

Here's a little taster from New Arcana! Big thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for featuring a reading of my poem 'and the girl inside me' 🔮✨️

I found this beauty in my letter box. Delivery by stealth and kindness. FILLY Extraordinary work by Rosamund Taylor @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social and all @bansheepress.bsky.social ✨

"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it." From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕 bansheepress.org/read/the-two...

FILLY by the brilliant @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social has arrived! Can't wait for this glorious novel in verse to be out in the world ✨️✨️✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

New @fallowmedia.bsky.social with a Marguerite Duras film script & companion essays by Daniel Fraser & myself, Lisa Robertson on Adnan, Maija Makela on Notley, Owen Hatherley, Stephen Sexton, Lalla Romano, JC Vaughan, Maria Sledmere, Devki Panchmatia & Russell Persson fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

I know I'm banging on. But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books. From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin. As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.' www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

'When a honeybee bumps against glass, and silences noise your room, when masonry settles and a knock at the door is harm ...' 'When You Unravel' by @eleanorhooker.bsky.social – poetry from issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019) 🧵 bansheepress.org/read/when-yo...

A little unboxing video of my new collection New Arcana from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with a big shout out to @lisasterle.bsky.social for her amazing cover art. 🔮🃏✨️ Launch info coming soon!

Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝 bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

Let’s Sign Science by @bebeashley.bsky.social from Harbour Doubts ( @bansheepress.bsky.social )

'There is a halo of yellow far off, where green meets the zone of habitation. Boughs and branches move, leaves seethe and shiver. The night has its mouths.' From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- fiction by David Hayden 🌔 @seventydys.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/taints-...

My story ‘Taints’ published last year in @bansheepress.bsky.social is now available to read online. bansheepress.org/read/taints-...

Final two published poems from New Arcana before the book comes out next month! With big thanks to @poetrywales.bsky.social for featuring them. 🃏🐍😈 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

SONGS FOR GHOSTS is out in the US today! 👻

Stunning work from @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social and @bansheepress.bsky.social

Now available to pre-order: FILLY, the stunning novel in verse by award-winning poet Rosamund Taylor. Out 9 October 2025 ✨ @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social bansheepress.org/shop/p/filly...

Minister Patrick O’Donovan has announced a 6-month extension to the Pilot Scheme for Basic Income for the Arts. The NCFA are raising the profile of the sector call to Retain, Extend and Expand Basic Income for the Arts 🔗 ncfa.ie/2025/06/19/j... / email [email protected] link with your local constituency

I’m offering a signed and personalised copy of Songs for Ghosts and a ms critique as part of the Irish Kidlit for Palestine Fundraiser! Check out the items from brilliant writers and illustrators here: www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...

One more day to preorder Filly on sale! @waterstones.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/filly/r...

FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's beautiful forthcoming novel-in-verse, is now available for pre-order from Waterstones.com at 25% off RRP. This offer is available until midnight on 31 July. Enter the code SUMMER25 at checkout! #WPreorder @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/filly/r...

'Urbane, sparky and adventurous' – a fantastic review by Vona Groarke in @irishtimes.com for @bebeashley.bsky.social's Harbour Doubts: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Day one of my 48 hour Hunger Strike in support of the Sameer Project. Please share and support if you can. More info on Insta. chuffed.org/project/help...

Good morning! Here's a little preview reading from New Arcana 🔮 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

First look: the gorgeous cover of FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's stunning novel-in-verse, coming from Banshee Press in October 2025. Cover photography by Oana Stoian, with design by Jack Smyth ✨ @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @jackflag.bsky.social

'the air tastes like bronze. A slow procession of soft wool ties, red, greet her along the tracks under Arts et Métiers. Herein lies the entire history of gold, dancing in her irises.' From issue 8 (spring/summer 2019) – poetry by Ingrid Casey 👑 bansheepress.org/read/when-th...

I was super chuffed to have this little story published in the wonderful @bansheepress.bsky.social last year and now it's up on their website! Written in a @sfreligh.bsky.social workshop #FlashFiction

Devouring the latest issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social

'The jewellery set arrives on your thirteenth birthday, the official transition from playing with dolls to planning what to name your children.' From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) – flash fiction by @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social 💎 bansheepress.org/read/baubles...

Cover design for Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ashley, publishing today via @bansheepress.bsky.social

Harbour Doubts by @bebeashley.bsky.social launches in the Seamus Heaney Centre this evening! We’re excited to celebrate this beautiful book in Belfast; all are welcome to join us from 6pm 🎊 Harbour Doubts is available now in all good bookshops or from our website: bansheepress.org/shop/p/harbo...

Bebe Ashley – @bebeashley.bsky.social – reads from and talks about Harbour Doubts on last Sunday's episode of Poetry People on RTE Radio 1: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

'I have layered you onto the canvas, full magentas and yellows and pinks, then scraped you away – pared back to some essential silence.' From issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018), poetry by Jane Robinson: bansheepress.org/read/standin...

Listen to this brilliant interview with Mary Morrissy about #PenelopeUnbound and Bloomsday on The Bookshelf on ABC Australia: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

And new @bansheepress.bsky.social!

We hope you can join us for the launch of HARBOUR DOUBTS by @bebeashley.bsky.social‬ on Thursday 26 June at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast! It starts at 6pm with the excellent Dawn Watson introducing Bebe's reading. All are welcome! ✨ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

The mighty SoundEye Festival returns to Cork in July. I won't make it, but you can. I'll be there in pamphlet form! Details: soundeye.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/s...

Very glad to have first glimpse of my essay 'Beach Trip to Gaza', in the latest issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social.

'There is nothing. It’s the body without being, and being without a body the nothing is limitless. Flesh turned to pixels, being is malleable.' From issue 18 (now sold out), 'New Game / Options / Quit', a personal essay by @clairiefairie.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/new-gam...

Delighted to see @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social has a new poetry collection due out in autumn🍂, published by @bansheepress.bsky.social

Congratulations to @gphibbett.bsky.social‬ on their latest triumph: High Jump as Icarus Story has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection! We're so proud of the incredible impact that this book has made ✨ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

So honored to be part of this w/my (little) whale of a story!🐋I'll be watching the mail for my summer reading! Big thanks to @mariegethins.bsky.social & team for including me w/some of my favorite writers: @sudhab.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social @shanejlarkin.bsky.social @sgscarso.bsky.social

A long held dream to be in @bansheepress.bsky.social, delighted! 🌟

BANSHEE 19 POETS 2 @yvonnecullenwrites.bsky.social | @laurenlawler.bsky.social | @aimeegodfrey.bsky.social | Karan Kapoor | Daragh Byrne | @lisadmkelly.bsky.social | Kayleigh Campbell | Alicia Byrne Keane| Kevin Graham | @martinadalton.bsky.social So delighted to feature these wonderful poets

BANSHEE 19 POETS 1 Campbell McGrath| Alex Wong| Cal O'Reilly |Emily R. Daniel | @eoghancarrick.bsky.social | @oliviaheggarty.bsky.social | Lesley-Anne Evans | Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi @usuallyolive.bsky.social | @annpedone.bsky.social |

A super issue with some amazing flash fiction by @sudhab.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social @shanejlarkin.bsky.social @sgscarso.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social