Catch Billy Ramsell reading alongside @mollytwomey.bsky.social and @deanbrowne.bsky.social at a @westcorkmusic.bsky.social coffee & chat event on Saturday morning – a phenomenal lineup of poets! ☕️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/literary-fes...

'The awe-inspiring imaginative panache and chutzpah of this book are overwhelming. Through poems that are spirited and funny, Ramsell imagines the breadth of a poetic life.' From Mícheál McCann's review of Billy Ramsell's Render in last weekend's Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Am so enjoying Billy Ramsell’s new collection ‘Render’ - congratulations to Billy and to @bansheepress.bsky.social on another gorgeous book. Read the whole world in the sum of ‘A Pocket Square’, a tiny poem, as economic and controlled as it expansive and expressive... #Poetry

We are delighted to share the cover for THE MOST NORMAL WOMAN: ESSAYS ON APPEARANCES by Roisin Kiberd, forthcoming August 27th! Designed by Elisha Zepeda What is normal, anyway? Find out more and pre-order here: tramppress.com/product/the-...

There's less than a week to go until the unique collaborative event between The Stinging Fly x @bansheepress.bsky.social at @corkmidsummer.bsky.social on Saturday, 20th June🎊🌞 In the meantime, lets meet the four writers who will be sharing new writing in response to Seán Mac Erlaine's music 🎤🎵

We're excited to collab with @stingingfly.bsky.social at @corkmidsummer.bsky.social! Join us on Saturday 20 June at the Granary Theatre @ucc.ie for The Music of What Happens feat. Seán Mac Erlaine, Mary Dunne, Chetna Maroo, Thomas Morris and Billy Ramsell: www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...

Last Thursday we launched Billy Ramsell’s RENDER to a packed Lavit Gallery in Cork! A wonderful night. Huge thanks to @adamhanna.bsky.social for the fantastic speech, Donal O’Sullivan for the atmospheric music & to the whole Cork poetry community for the incredible support. 📸 by Bana Aassy

Congratulations to my @ucc.ie colleague @eimearryan.bsky.social, editor @bansheepress.bsky.social, on the publication of Billy Ramsell’s new collection of poetry, Render. Masterfully launched by our other colleague, @adamhanna.bsky.social. Get it while you can: bansheepress.org/shop/p/rende...

The Stinging Fly & @bansheepress.bsky.social are going to @corkmidsummer.bsky.social 🎉 Join us for ‘The Music of What Happens’: a unique call-and-response exploration of the imaginative boundaries between writing and music, and the act of creativity itself www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...

Banshee issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) is now winging its way to subscribers! Order at the link below ☀️ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

Today's Feature: "High Jump as Divination" by @gphibbett.bsky.social from High Jump as Icarus Story published by @bansheepress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/high-ju...

It will be an honour to launch Billy Ramsell's superb collection *Render* in Lavit Gallery in Cork, 4 June, 6pm. Come and hear some excellent poetry. On what more distant somewheres will their tidings, their indigo gospel, their weightlessness have settled by morning? from 'Two Boys' See less

Join us for the launch of RENDER by Billy Ramsell! On Thursday 4 June we'll gather at Lavit Gallery in Cork city at 6pm to celebrate this superb collection. The book will be launched by Dr Adam Hanna of UCC, with music by Donal O'Sullivan. All are welcome! ☀️ bansheepress.org/read/celebra...

My award-winning chapbook 'We Fall We Carry' has landed. The official launch is at #corkinternationalpoetryfestival on Saturday the 16th of May at 3pm. It would be lovely to see you there. 🩶 @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Margaret Donnellan and all at @echolive.bsky.social for this fabulous feature on our festival director Eimear. Read about some of the highlights of this year's festival and why you should all join us in Bantry from 10-17 July www.echolive.ie/wow/arid-418...

Issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) has gone to print! View the contents, pre-order a copy or renew your subscription at the link below ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

Read this and be floored by the twist.

'Someone once described the dusky hues of a dawn sky as a good morning greeting from the maker himself. I laughed till I cried. From issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018): fiction by @lmack.bsky.social🍧 bansheepress.org/read/too-sma...

#FreeVerse poetry fair today, found books by @bansheepress.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @the87press.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @dialectwriters.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social #TheLittleReview #EstherFatoye & @prototypepubs.bsky.social Then my bank fraud checked me 🫥🤣

How stunning is this @bansheepress.bsky.social cover! And how exciting is the thought of a new collection from Billy Ramsell. Billy joins us for a morning of poetry at WCLF on 11 July alongside @mollytwomey.bsky.social and @deanbrowne.bsky.social. Tickets at link in our bio

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026 Day 21: A book with elements of fantasy, mythology or fairytale - Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy #readirishwomenchallenge #kateobrien #reading #irishwriter #femaleauthors @bookaneer808.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social

Busy week ahead! I'll be at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social tomorrow and Weds, at @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social on Thurs and then off to rep @bansheepress.bsky.social at the @poetrysociety.bsky.social Free Verse Book Fair. If you're in Galway, Cork or London come say hi 👋

If you're in Galway for the mighty @cuirtfestival.bsky.social this week, be sure to catch @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social in conversation with @anthonyshapland.bsky.social at the Mick Lally Theatre tomorrow at 1pm! 🎟️ www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/que...

'I imagined her soul as a small white electrical fuse, the kind you put into a plug. She was a tomboy, short-haired, freckled. Her family were Gaelgeoirs, she addressed me – An bhfuil tu sásta? An bhfuil? 'Best Friends' by Ger Duffy -- poetry from issue 18 👭 bansheepress.org/read/best-fr...

Londoners! We're delighted to be attending the Alternative Book Fair at Islington Central Library this Saturday. Come by our stall and say hello, or check out our event with @eimearryan.bsky.social and Rosa Rogers at 2.30pm 📚️ www.alternativebookfairlondon.co.uk

Day 98! I read NASA Plays “I’ll Be Seeing You” Trying to Wake the Mars Rover by @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social published in @bansheepress.bsky.social. Never forget those that came before you. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/s...

Looking at this thing of beauty! Render by Billy Ramsell is a PBS recommendation and one of the most inventive and original collections I've read. Get your pre-orders in!

Billy's new book is superb. Highly recommended. Go buy it! You'll be supporting one of Ireland's great small press publishers and Cork's greatest living poet (and someone who genuinely happens to be among the great raconteurs of this world). It's a twofer.

Now available for pre-order: RENDER, the dazzling new collection by acclaimed poet Billy Ramsell, out on 4 June 2026. Cover design by Luke Bird. bansheepress.org/shop/p/rende...

Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work. We’ll be in touch over the summer 😎

Fun times at The Poetry Lounge at Waterford Gallery of Art today with @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social & Eithne Lannon. Big thanks to the brilliant Ger Duffy for organising!

Two of my favorite people talking about the most daring and elegant book of the year @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social

Exciting news: FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social is Cork City Libraries' One City One Book selection for 2026! To celebrate, Rosamund will be in conversation with Penelope Unbound author Mary Morrissy at Cork World Book Festival on 23 April: corkworldbookfest.com/events/annou...

📋️ APPLY: Emerging Artist Bursaries - Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 📅 Closing: 17th April at 1pm Apply now for dlr Emerging Artist Bursaries! Successful recipients will receive an award of €2,000 for the development and creation of new work. More info: buff.ly/Kr3FmTD

Friendship and solidarity; camaraderie and most of all the astutely observed line is what enables these poets to trace the darkest moments, and yes, rising scathed, to breathe much needed air into the claustrophobia of our world. Whether the slow soul-ticking night shift at the plastics factory, or

'Presentations last exactly forty minutes: twenty slides, fourteen jokes (snappy little one-liners; keep it inclusive; classic all-rounders).' From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017): fiction by @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/we-get-...

Today's listing of the day is: Banshee: A Literary Journal @bansheepress.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

It's #Irish #Book Day! (aka my favorite day of the year.) Today with @solasnuadc.bsky.social & @bansheepress.bsky.social at the @heurichhouse.bsky.social until 6 or whenever books run out. Choose between poetry and short stories.

We're excited to partner with the wonderful @solasnuadc.bsky.social in Washington DC this Patrick's weekend for an Irish lit giveaway! Visit the Heurich House Museum this Sunday 15 March and get a free book by Bebe Ashley or Lucy Sweeney Byrne ☘️ www.solasnua.org/events/irish...

The team @stingingfly.bsky.social are looking for an experienced and highly organised individual to be their General Manager. This is a new hybrid and part-time role (28 hours per week). Deadline 31 March stingingfly.org/news/general...

We're thrilled that RENDER by Billy Ramsell, forthcoming from Banshee Press in June, has been recommended by the Poetry Book Society in their Summer Selections, curated by Victoria Kennefick, Fred D'Aguiar, Leo Boix, Alycia Pirmohamed and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/a...

Lovely review of MacGabhann’s debut poetry collection ‘Feels as though we are accessing the thoughts of a particularly erudite friend’

Fantastic to see Tim MacGabhann's Found in a Context of Destruction as the Book of the Week on RTE Culture! Huge thanks to James Conor Patterson for the thoughtful review: www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

Render proofs are out in the world! So excited for us to share this brilliantly inventive collection with you all ✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

Many pre-releases in the post! From @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social: @janicehallett.bsky.social Death at the Museum From Penguin: Lauryn Hamilton Murray, Tides of Fortune Laure Eve, Alecto Gray Will Hunt You Down From @bansheepress.bsky.social: Billy Ramsell, Render From @theobrienpress.bsky.social: >>

Looking forward to reading exciting #flashfiction submissions! Do polish & send in your best for Issue 22.

Thank you to O’Mahony’s Booksellers for their support and for their smiling presence at every event of the Festival. Great to have such a wide selection of speakers books available to buy. A wonderful bookshop.

Send me your poems! ✨️

Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨ bansheepress.org/submit