Belfast friends we are headed your way on Thursday - would be lovely to see you there ✨️

A few more pics from last night 🌙 ✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social

Lovely vibes yesterday in @booksupstairs.bsky.social for the launch of Found in the Context of Destruction, the debut poetry collection by Tim MacGabhann (some twenty years in the making). Pops with imagery – "your jeans puddled on the beach" Published by the mighty @bansheepress.bsky.social

Dublin, we are launched. Huge congrats to Tim MacGabhann on this gorgeous collection & to @booksupstairs.bsky.social for hoating us. Found in a Context of Destruction is available from all good bookshops & from @bansheepress.bsky.social Next stop Belfast - Thurs 19th at No Alibis!

Tomorrow we host the Dublin launch, can’t wait! RSVP here: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

Join us in a raft of exotic locations (Dublin! Belfast! 🌴) this week and next to launch Tim's marvellous debut✨️

It's here! The debut collection of poems from acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann! These poems chart the course of addiction and recovery, contemplating the injuries a body can sustain, and what joys we find in these darker spaces in friendship, music, and community. @bansheepress.bsky.social 🥰

Happy publication day to Found in a Context of Destruction, the debut collection of poems from acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann. Available now in all good bookshops or from the Banshee Press website 🖤 bansheepress.org/shop/p/found...

“…what will the cops smell like this morning…” Tim MacGabhann’s poetry collection from @bansheepress.bsky.social is a rare work that is actually NEEDED badly in times like these. And on the level of the line, really original and fresh.

'The street lamp outside shines on the yellow wallpaper, making it orangey-cream. The night inches on, every second hard and scratchy, like a knife dragging through grit.' From issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019): fiction by P. Kearney Byrne bansheepress.org/read/karita-...

📗Read an extract from Filly, by Rosamund Taylor— a novel in verse about sexual awakening, masochistic love, and the transformative possibilities of community 📗@bansheepress.bsky.social @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/an-extract-f...

📗January is nearly over—see which new books are coming out in February in our fully searchable database First Flush!📗 @theobrienpress.bsky.social @mercierpress.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/first-flush-...

Join us to celebrate the publication of FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut collection of poetry by Tim MacGabhann! We're launching in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 12 February and in No Alibis in Belfast on 19 February. All are welcome! bansheepress.org/read/join-us...

This tiny piece is so lovely.

'Curled beside me in your wheaten silk – asleep in whatever log or nest of leaves the night has conjured from our quilt ...' From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) – poetry by @aoifelyall.bsky.social 🐭 bansheepress.org/read/dormous...

Starting the New Year in the company of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social’s compelling novel in verse ‘Filly’ from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🤩

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 17 is 'I Hear the Rocks and Stones' from 'Harbour Doubts' by @bebeashley.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social 😍✨

Some lovely press this week – first up, @jackflag.bsky.social's cover for @bebeashley.bsky.social's Harbour Doubts was listed as a best book cover of 2025 by @nytimes.com 🧡 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b... (1/3)

Very excited for Tim's brilliant debut poetry collection to be out in the world next spring 🙌

Now available for pre-order: FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut poetry collection by acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann, out in February 2026. Cover design by @jackflag.bsky.social 🪨 bansheepress.org/shop/p/found...

🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 6 is a peak of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's epic novel in verse, 'Filly' @bansheepress.bsky.social 💖

Breaking my hibernation for a small boast. I read a poem at the Dublin launch of Banshee (@bansheepress.bsky.social) Issue 20 last night. It was a lovely, cosy evening on a chilly night in town. The other readers were superb and I'd encourage anyone to pick up a copy, you won't be disappointed.

Celebrating 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social yesterday at @booksupstairs.bsky.social Thank you so much to the @bansheepress.bsky.social & @booksupstairs.bsky.social teams, and to all our writers and readers. It was a magical night ✨️

Lovely to see this @gphibbett.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social

So happy to have a wee story in this issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social Thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social and the team, and congrats to all the other contributors 🥳

'There were no amulets for protection, just some books and a framed photo of my dad, a veteran of the operating theatre. This was my armoury, the layer between me and the medical team.' From issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018) – non-fiction by Elizabeth O'Neill ✨ bansheepress.org/read/excisio...

🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025. Next is Chris Arning's pick: High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett (Banshee Press). Thank you, Chris!

Come join us this Thursday @booksupstairs.bsky.social to celebrate 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social ✨️ There'll be chats, readings and 🍷

The last year’s worth of published work. Short stories courtesy of @stingingfly.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social and @xraylitmag.bsky.social and my essay on the cinema of Marguerite Duras in @fallowmedia.bsky.social.

Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

come one, come all! 6-9 tomorrow evening (28th, Fri.) and 10-4 Saturday (29). FREE! bring ten friends and ten euro and make a bunch of small presses really happy

We'll have a stall at this brilliant event in Pearse Street Library tomorrow and Saturday – hope to see you there! 📚

On Wednesday @ucc.ie are hosting an amazing FREE event w/ poets @deanbrowne.bsky.social & @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social. Dean's debut collection After Party is published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social and Rosamund's verse novel Filly by @bansheepress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/poets-dean...

We're thrilled to announce the next two poetry books from Banshee Press: Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann (February 2026) and Render by Billy Ramsell (June 2026) 📚 bansheepress.org/read/announc...

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17 languages - love the breadth of this prize and the spotlight it shines on the incredibly enriching work of translators

Delighted the news is out about our next two poetry titles from @bansheepress.bsky.social - new collections from Tim MacGabhann and Billy Ramsell coming your way in 2026 ✨️

Banshee Press has acquired Found in a Context of Destruction, a debut poetry collection from novelist and memoirist Tim MacGabhann, and Render, the third collection from acclaimed poet Billy Ramsell 👇 #BookSky

'My jelly legs are off the couch by grace of Prozac. Four months indoors and the neighbourhood is treason.' From our sold-out issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- poetry by Vasiliki Albedo ⭐ @minorroarr.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/the-sta...

Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with: 🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com 🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show 🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe

Few journals have done more for me and my writing during the past decade, so it is really special to be included in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social which you can order now bansheepress.org/read/introdu...

A wonderful review for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social in @belfasttelegraph.co.uk by James McNaney ✨ m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend...

My poem, "Yesterday's Men," appears in issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) of Banshee. Inspired by a little health scare earlier this year & a purely domestic accident. #sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social

Delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of @bansheepress.bsky.social’s 20th issue. ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.

Joining this knockout panel as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social are Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong and Sophie White in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social. Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...

Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work. We'll be in touch in the new year 🎃

Love the cover of the latest @bansheepress.bsky.social issue, their 20th! A fantastic achievement🥂

Accepting work for issue 21 until midnight (IST) 🎃

Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨ irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...