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 👋
Lovely day @granardbooktown.bsky.social reading with Stephen Murray. Granard is such a gorgeous feetival. Thanks so much for having us! ✨️
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@salmonpoetry.bsky.social
'He said a ban on exploration and drilling, introduced in 2021, should be lifted “for the good of the nation”.'
What about the good of the planet? The people? He's either a moron or a scumbag. Pick your poison - his is oil
TL;DR: NO THEY'RE FUCKING NOT
www.thejournal.ie/should-irela...
The suggestion that Ireland should reverse the ban on drilling for oil and gas has popped up again.
I made a programme looking at this from every imaginable angle.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Spoiler alert: The arguments for drilling don’t add up.
April news: shorturl.at/wZfJt
#PeterDidsbury: Scenes from a Long Sleep out 10/04; @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana on #PigottPoetryPrize shortlist; #RitaAnnHiggins on @rteradio1.bsky.social's Brendan O'Connor Show; @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social review in @irishtimes.com & podcast feature & more
It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections.
Come join me for a three day workshop in beautiful Bantry - writing in the morning and a host of gorgeous West Cork Lit Festival readings at the festival to choose from in the evening ✨️ (readings sold separately)
Thank you! ♥️
Thank you!
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.
Some lovely news for the Easter weekend 🐣✨️
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Arresting Palestine Action activists for holding signs while this idiot is invited to headline Finsbury Park.
Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum?
There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.
The underlying message of trans girls being banned from guides for "safeguard" reasons is that only segregation can keep women and girls safe from "biological men" and it must start in childhood. It's such puritan regression from ideas on deconstructing rape culture, toxic masculinity and #MeToo
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!
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
So delighted that the news is out! Big congrats @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 👏👏👏
Step one: colonise half the planet
Step two: steal their art
Step three: charge them entry to see it
This. After the Ballinrobe parade float debacle, I saw lots of men saying 'at least it keeps Epstein in the news'. When I said to one, an elderly man hugging his grandson in his profiler, that a parade float with men simulating rape isn't the way to do this, he told me I was too ugly to be raped. ✨️
This ruling is so grim and unkind. I don't really understand why guides/scouts are segregated in any case. It's retrograde and weird and this ruling just furthers that.
Come join us on April 23!
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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.
Today's listing of the day is: Banshee: A Literary Journal @bansheepress.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
Looking forward to reading at this on the 28th ✨️
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Evil weapons boss vows to destroy women's rights is a bit on the nose even for 2026.
Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan
Lovely review of MacGabhann’s debut poetry collection
‘Feels as though we are accessing the thoughts of a particularly erudite friend’
