This week Susanna Galbraith and Nithy Kasa at Cúirt thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop. See you there!

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@su-anna.bsky.social at Strokestown International Poetry Festival

Saturday 2 May, 2026
11:30 - 13:00 pm

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Excellent images from last week's excellent event @thefeministlibrary with @su-anna.bsky.social and @sophieherx.bsky.social

Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

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Ellen Orchard's review of Crowd Work that appeared in The Stinging Fly. You can read it here: stingingfly.org/review/irish...

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Dwelling — Macha Press Dwelling is a work of excavation: lyrical, archival, and embodied. At its centre is the poet’s great grandmother, likely the subject of eviction during the clearances after the Irish Famine: a fig...

If you're getting excited like us about Máighréad Medbh's new book, don't forget you can pre-order it here directly from Macha Press: www.machapress.com/subscription...

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@maighreadmedbh.bsky.social's DWELLING is at once compelling poetic hybridity, excavation, & a work of breath & vertigo. We are launching this collection in Dublin @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social in association with @poetryireland.bsky.social this May! Tickets:

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Macha Press Belfast Launch: DWELLING, Máighréad Medbh Join Macha Press to celebrate the publication of DWELLING, with a reading by poet Máighréad Medbh.

@mmedb.h's DWELLING is at once compelling poetic hybridity, excavation, and a work of breath and vertigo. We are delighted to be launching this collection in Belfast @ulsterpresents (and then Dublin, to follow) this May! Tickets available via Eventbrite

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@mmedb.h's DWELLING is at once compelling poetic hybridity, excavation, and a work of breath and vertigo. We are delighted to be launching this collection in Belfast @ulsterpresents (and then Dublin, to follow) this May! Tickets available via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/macha-press-belfast-launch-dwelling-maighread-medbh-tickets-1986988316543?aff=ebdssbdestsearch Available for preorder now: https://www.machapress.com/subscriptions/p/dwelling Macha Press is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Government of Ireland. @artscouncilireland @artscouncilni @irishforeignministry @lottogoodcauses @nationallotterygoodcauses #acnisupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou

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Our submissions window will close at 11:59 p.m. GMT on 15 April 2026.

We are inviting submissions of 15-20 pages of a debut collection manuscript. Submissions will only be considered from writers with ongoing connection to the literary ecology of Northern Ireland.

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Today at the Feminist Library, 5pm! #London #Londonevents #Whatsonlondon #londonpoetry #poetry #feminism

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Dwelling — Macha Press Dwelling is a work of excavation: lyrical, archival, and embodied. At its centre is the poet’s great grandmother, likely the subject of eviction during the clearances after the Irish Famine: a fig...

It's #nationalpoetrymonth and you can celebrate by pre-ordering Dwelling by Máighréad Medbh

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Join @su-anna.bsky.social and @sophieherx.bsky.social at London's The Feminist Library for readings, intermedia matter & discussion.

April 11, 5:00 -6:30 pm
Free, all very welcome.

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Our submissions window opens on 1 April 2026 and will close at 11:59 p.m. GMT on 15 April 2026.

We are looking for work from emerging poets seeking to publish a debut collection, and are inviting submissions of a sample of 15-20 pages of a collection manuscript.

www.machapress.com/submissions

Join @su-anna.bsky.social and @sophieherx.bsky.social at London's The Feminist Library for readings, intermedia matter & discussion.

April 11, 5:00 -6:30 pm
Free, all very welcome.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paper-cuts...

Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on MORSELS by @su-anna.bsky.social

MORSELS is available for purchase at machapress.com, and also as part of our Year Two Subscription alongside DWELLING, the forthcoming (May) title by @maighreadmedbh.bsky.social

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We can't wait: @su-anna.bsky.social @nithycasa @cuirtfestival.bsky.social

The Cúirt Poetry Sessions, in association with @poetryireland.bsky.social

Friday, 24 April 2026, 6:00pm

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop / Free

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@maighreadmedbh.bsky.social will be reading with @simonmaddrell.bsky.social on May 15th 7.00pm, Cork Arts Theatre as part of this year's @muensterliteraturecentre's Cork International Poetry Festival. Details, including tickets, are now available at www.corkpoetryfest.net/friday.html

We're going to London next month! Mark your calendars for Paper Cuts and Poetry at The Feminist Library, featuring reading and discussion by Susanna Galbraith and @sophieherx.bsky.social

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@maighreadmedbh.bsky.social will be reading with @simonmaddrell.bsky.social on May 15th 7.00pm, Cork Arts Theatre as part of this year's @muensterliteraturecentre's Cork International Poetry Festival. Details, including tickets, are now available at www.corkpoetryfest.net/friday.html

@su-anna.bsky.social & Sam Furlong in discussion with@kathleenmccracken44 @alannaoffield at last week's Open University event. Many thanks to all who attended!

@sa.galbraith @godblessthechickpea will discuss social engagement and ecological concerns in their debut collections with two editors from Macha Press, who will also outline the Macha Press call for submissions.

Free event, bookings via Eventbrite:

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@sa.galbraith @godblessthechickpea will discuss social engagement and ecological concerns in their debut collections with two editors from Macha Press, who will also outline the Macha Press call for submissions.

Free event, bookings via Eventbrite:

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Social Engagement & Ecological Concerns in Contemporary Irish Poetry Discussion with readings by Macha Press poets Susanna Galbraith & Sam Furlong, with Macha Press editors.

Susanna Galbraith's work was reviewed in The Stinging Fly recently and in the same piece, author Ellen Orchard also refers to Sam Furlong's work briefly as "stunning and skilled"

If you want to hear from both poets come along to this event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-eng...

We can’t wait @maighreadmedbh.bsky.social

Buy tickets – A Night of Music and Poetry: Bossa Nova Blue & Macha Press Poets A Night of Music and Poetry: Bossa Nova Blue & Macha Press Poets, Sun 1 Mar 2026 - Wind down on a Sunday night with some music and poetry in Seatons of Sailortown! Bossa Nova Blue Meabh Cormacain a...

I'll be performing poems from my forthcoming book, Dwelling, (Macha Press) tomorrow night, Sunday 1st, at Seatons of Sailortown, Belfast BT15 1LF. Susanna Galbraith will also be reading, from her new book, Morsels. Music by Bossa Nova Blue @machapress.bsky.social
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