Congratulations to Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social and Katie Hale @katiescribbles.bsky.social. Their chapbooks will be published next year and launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival in May @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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Huge gratitude to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for this interview with @booksireland.bsky.social 🩶 Looking forward to reading with Jennifer Horgan, Lianne O'Hara and Martin Dyar @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
Thank you so much, Rosanna! ⭐️
Ah, Martina, you star! What a treasure to see you post the ceremony and your lovely reading the following day! Massive congratulations on your highly commended work! I'll be following your further successes, which will follow, no doubt! 🥰🥰🥰
Ah, dear Róisín, thank you so much, you're so kind! 🥰
Ah, Breda, I'm elated! 🤩
Thank you so much, Anne! ⚡️
Thank you, Paul! ⭐️
What an honour to be the recipient of The Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025. Thrilled to be chosen by the effervescent poet Victoria Kennefick and so delighted for my poetry pals, including the fabulous Martina Dalton who was highly commended 🩶
Fabulous review!
So lovely to have my poem 13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts featured @rteradio1.bsky.social
Huge gratitude to Belinda McKeon for selecting my work.
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Breda Spaight, an extraordinary poet ✨️
I'm so pleased to be reading alongside a cast of poetry stars at Waterstones Cork for the launch of Southword Issue 48. Come join us if you're in town: 15th of July at 6:30pm. @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social 💫
Thank you so much, Anne ⚡️
My wee poem will be featured on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight at 7:30pm. alongside great writers. Thank you to @zoecomyns.bsky.social & Belinda McKeon for selecting my work. It's such a fabulous show! 🤍
Thank you, Sonya! 😁
Delighted to have three new poems featured in this gorgeous issue. Wholehearted thanks to the editors of @manchesterreview.bsky.social ⚡️
Thank you so much Róisín 💓
🥰😍🥰Grá @roisinnineachtain.com
I'm so grateful to the wonderful poet and editor @annemarienichurreain for including two of my poems in this gorgeous issue of @stingingfly 🤍
'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' began in @ulstermuseum while attending @seamusheaneycentre summer school. 🤍
Come celebrate with us tonight!
Waterstones Cork, 6:30pm.
Would love to see you there!
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'Beginnings Over and Over' are present in every moment. How nourishing it was to read with poetry pals @ilfdublin.bsky.social in celebration of this gorgeous book, holistically edited @leeannequinn.bsky.social
Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶
Celebrate our Cork launch at Waterstones on Tuesday the 27th of May at 6:30pm. We'd love to see you there! 🩶 Introductions by the effervescent @Leeanne_Quinn. Readings by Cal O'Reilly, Mai Ishikawa, and Róisín Leggett Bohan 🩶
Thank you for reading it, Breda 🩶
Thank you, Sheeley Ann. The Bealtaine festival was the perfect place for this poem. How lovely 🌿
Oh, look, it's a poem! Thank you to Aerial, the cat who accompanied me on my nightwalks in The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in May 2023. Small things keep on giving ✨️
I would highly recommend Jennifer Horgan's exquisite collection, 'Care', published @doirepress.bsky.social
Her work is a joy to witness 🩶
