“In the poem your butchers / fear to breathe, the murdered nurseries // are clean, the brimming / table-top restored...” ~ From a #poem i.m. Refaat Alareer, included in my new collection from @irishpages.bsky.social 🇵🇸 irishpages.org/product/prop... Full support to the @bdsmovement.bsky.social ✊️

Thanks to @ancloganmag.bsky.social for taking this piece: a tribute to the medical revolutionary Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955), who believed in “the abolition of privilege of every kind – privilege of birth, position, or possessions”. We can learn from her example: www.anclogan.ie/6a37db203ef5...

A #poem from Ciarán O’Rourke’s third collection “Prophetstown” 📚 Now available: irishpages.org/product/prop... #Poetry @irishlittimes.bsky.social @corourke91.bsky.social

Got to write about the movie critic Melissa Anderson for @headstuff.bsky.social 🎬 Her book “The Hunger is a festival of intelligent insistence: Anderson demands our attention, and deserves it.” headstuff.org/entertainmen... Available here: www.filmdeskbooks.com/shop/p/the-h...

Ragpicker Poetry now feat. new #poems - by Mary O'Malley (@carcanet.bsky.social) www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/mary-o-malley/ - by Maggie Hoppel www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/maggie-hoppel/ - & by Stewart Sanderson (@tapsalteerie.bsky.social) www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/stewart-sanderson/

‘Joyce was trying to broaden the scope of what it means to be a human being’ Brilliant to chat with director Caveh Zahedi for @headstuff.bsky.social, about reimagining Ulysses on screen 🎬 headstuff.org/entertainmen... More on "Ulysses, New York" at this year's @bloomsdayfilmfest.bsky.social ☘️

Excited to hear my third #poetry collection, Prophetstown, is on the way from @irishpages.bsky.social: thanks to Chris and the crew for all their work behind the scenes 📚 I wrote about the collection here: www.ragpickerpoetry.net/prose/cultur... More details at irishpages.org/product/prop...