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Surprise in the post this morning! Absolutely delighted to have a poem in issue #18 of Banshee Press 🖤 huge thanks to guest poetry editor rosamund

TOMORROW! Please join us, I'm in beautiful Edinburgh right now looking forward to reading!

Delighted to be in Belfast for this reading w Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe & David Nash for the The John Hewitt Society this evening. Do join us if you can...

I may be biased, but these issues of Banshee Press are just getting more and more beautiful - I took a break poetry editing for this issue, so relishing diving into guest ed rosamund’s excellent poetry choices alongside lots of fantastic stories, essays & flash.

An absolute treat to meet fellow #QueeringTheGreen poet rosamund & fellow The Emma Press poet (and amazing crafter) Rachel Plummer and hear them read (beautifully) at Golden Hare Books. I’ve been wanting their books for such a long time, so it’s great to be waged right now.

C.S. Lewis, there is no safe investment

We are delighted to announce #PoetryDayIRL will take place on the 1st of May 2025. Follow @PoetryIreland to keep up to date with events, workshops and details of what's planned around the country for #PoetryDayIRL 2025.

Me and (Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social in our handmade Halloween outfits - the sewing poets!

Tues, Nov. 12th @ 7pm dlr LexIcon Venue Please come & join Joanne Hayden livisoffline & myself for a celebratory reading & in-depth conversation about writing All are welcome✨ Free, registration link below. dlr Arts Office Writers Residency eventbrite.ie/e/sonya-gildea… Eventbrite Help

Congratulations Dawn Watson! WE PLAY HERE is on the shortlist for the English PEN Heaney Prize

From the Daily Mirror, 1920. So true.

Banshee Issue 18✨ All thanks to Eimear Ryan Jessica Traynor, guest editor rosamund & all Banshee Press for this beautiful issue & including a poem of mine among such friends and writers.💙

The Dedalus Book of Faroese Literature goes off to the printers today. It seems to have taken for ever to get it ready with 29 stories spanning over a century taken from 2 languages with 3 translators and a Faroese editor. We see it as a big achievement.

'Kieffer’s imaginative stories sharpen our vision of the world around us. She is a real and original talent.' Mike McCormack TENTERHOOKS by Claire-Lise Kieffer is available to pre-order (out Feb 25) claire-lise Cover by Jack Smyth 🫲 bansheepress.org/shop/p/tenterh…

A caddisfly case is a wonder to behold & a sign of clean water. Lovely to read 'Caddisfly', in this segment about the new Farming For Nature Burrenbeo Trust Handbook on RTÉ Radio 1 CountryWide. Poem inspired by visit to farmer Sean O'Farrell, Co. Tipp. rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

contributor's copy has landed in Greece 🤩 Thank you Banshee Press rosamund 💚

I'm going to start using 🟦-sky more than here so if you'd like to follow me there I'll be under the same name.

HOWL is privileged to nominate the following writers for the 2024 Pushcart Prize. It was a very difficult decision to choose only six writers from the fifty-five incredibly talented writers featured in HOWL 24. HOWL 24 is available now online and at most fine bookshops.🐺

There is joy when your TY students pick covers of poetry collections for their ekphrasis exercise. Friends, our future is safe in the hands of Ireland's remarkable young poets 🩶 All power to @OBheal for curating this project 🩶

Huge thanks to James Conor Patterson & to Gustav Parker Hibbett for the lovely chats captured here. Wonderful to have this focus on both Parker & our work Banshee Press featured on Culture on RTÉ