Going full throttle for #poetrydayirl at Watch House Cross library #limerick with the very talented kids from Thomond NS with their poem "The Day a Shark, Went to Thomond Park".
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Today is Poetry Ireland Day and I share with you a poem from the wonderful Michael Longley.
The poem itself is perfect, but the story that follows will make you never doubt the power of words. Hear Michael talking about it on the link below 38:00 – 42:00
#PoetryDayIRL
youtu.be/syjNjq0Hsto
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Soooo today being #PoetryDayIrl & later this month being Dad’s 1st bday without him, to honour the mad yoke he was, here’s a poem of his included in UCG’s student magazine “SAOI” in 1963 which I found while going through some of his papers. Very dark humour and very him 🤣.
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Art is born
to souls seeded with wonder
in words. it sounds. it sings
#PoetryDayIRL #BlueSkyPoetry
#BlueSkyPoets
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Unreal news to see Claudia Rankine coming to @corkmidsummer.bsky.social #PoetryDayIRL www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/cla... @glucksman.bsky.social 😍🙏
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A good, and optimistic, day to flag this film by Killian Ginnity that evokes an era of poetry readings upstairs in Sinnott’s Bar. Voice: Denis Conway Music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire Recording: Nigel Rolfe
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ce2k...
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#poetrydayirl
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Celebrate #PoetryDayIRL today with 'Tilly' by #JamesJoyce
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Performed here by Jade Jordan, directed by Matthew Thompson and produced by our own Tommy Creagh in collaboration with @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social
Check out @poetryireland.bsky.social for lots of great events around the country today
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Apparently it's Poetry Day Ireland. #PoetryDayIrl
Where's my cheque?
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A wonderful interview with Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis featured on RTÉ Radio 1's Poetry People on 27 April. She was in conversation with host Rachael Hegarty & read poems from her new collection First Rain in Paradise (from 21:35).
@poetryireland.bsky.social #poetrydayirl
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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My little contribution for #poetrydayireland #poetrydayirl @poetryireland.bsky.social
From Stony Thursday anthology 2022.
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Happy #PoetryDayIRL everyone! You can read my poem "NYC Gave Me Stockholm Syndrome" in issue 14 of Drawn to the Light to celebrate if so inclined!
drawntothelightpress.com/issues/
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Poetry Day Ireland is Here!
This year’s theme #MayDay reflects a spirit of renewal, celebration, and community resilience. Poetry Ireland encourages everyone to take part by attending events in their local area or join online celebrations. #PoetryDayIRL
poetryday.ie
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Poets, artists, and communities are marking Poetry Day Ireland with over 50 events (and counting!) across the island
ℹ️ Discover Poetry Day Ireland Events at poetryday.ie
Wherever you are and however you choose to celebrate, today is the day to embrace the power of poetry.
#PoetryDayIRL
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For #PoetryDayIrl a poem by Joanne McCarthy from @the4facedliar.bsky.social
Issue 3 @poetryireland.bsky.social
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🌻 #PoetryDayIRL giveaway! ☀️ "Seal re Saobhnós: Essays on Irish courtly love poems", edited by @silenimhurchu.bsky.social and Mícheál Hoyne.
🔗 www.dias.ie/2025/05/01/p...
📖 You can also buy this and our other publications on shop.dias.ie!
@poetryireland.bsky.social
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Two poems I discovered online recently #PoetryDayIRL
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'This year’s theme is ‘May Day’, which is fitting for the 1st of May which is also Béaltaine, (Irish for May). Béaltaine is a Celtic celebration of the sun, symbolising hope, and the sun'
#PoetryDayIRL 2025 by Grace O’Reilly
Read:
www.writing.ie/news/poetry-...
@poetryireland.bsky.social
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www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/w... Happy Poetry Day Ireland, loads of events happening around the country #poetrydayirl @poetryireland.bsky.social
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Your death, near now, is of an easy sort. So slow a fading out brings no real pain. Breath growing short Is just uncomfortable. You feel the drain Of energy, but thought and sight remain: Enhanced, in fact. When did you ever see So much sweet beauty as when fine rain falls On that small tree And saturates your brick back garden walls, So many Amber Rooms and mirror halls? Ever more lavish as the dusk descends This glistening illuminates the air. It never ends. Whenever the rain comes it will be there, Beyond my time, but now I take my share. My daughter’s choice, the maple tree is new. Come autumn and its leaves will turn to flame. What I must do Is live to see that. That will end the game For me, though life continues all the same: Filling the double doors to bathe my eyes, A final flood of colours will live on As my mind dies, Burned by my vision of a world that shone So brightly at the last, and then was gone.
#poetryDayIRL
Clive James - "Japanese Maple"
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I carry it all. A palimpsest of meaning, a dark pool's depth, a crossing's tide. Claimed and throned through endless years. I've worn crowns, river's bruises. Moss clings where vows were sworn. Rain knows more than records. I've known flags shifted by tides, their hues alone remade. Some fell with a whisper, not a cry. Bread lines. Ballads. A shadowed room, one chair. The shovel's sound that never stops. They tried to drown me in gloss and chrome. But I know the heels at 3 a.m., a name never spoken aloud What is written is only ink, I hold the story, not as history, but as pulse, a pause in the heartbeat of a city. Hunger I held, shaped as children. Fires I lit from my pain. Silence I carried, like a mother bears fear. I am where it happened, where it still unfolds. Not all history feels like hope at first. Bitten by coins, I lingered in pockets. What they couldn't spend, they sang. Those who left carried me, in questions' curves, in vowels' pooling ache not quite theirs. Folded into envelopes, poured into wakes, I am named in silence, never let go. In absence, I gather.
Here’s one for #PoetryDayIrl on the city of Dublin
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Happy #PoetryDayIRL
Love these poems on our public transport! And what a glorious #MayDay to celebrate!
#Poetry #PoetryDayPoem #PoetryDayIRL
#water #sdgs
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To mark #WorldPoetryDay hete is a gem from Jimmy @ATDIreland Community Activist
#PoetryDayIRL
youtu.be/LOZcYZ1z5Vk?...
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A poem by Seán Hewitt from Issue 3 for #PoetryDayIrl @the4facedliar.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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I Carve a Future into the Year by Jo Bear
🎉Poetry Day Ireland 2025 is TOMORROW, Thursday 1st May. Join the all island celebration, learn how to get involved at poetryday.ie
@irishrail.bsky.social #PoetryDayIRL #MayDay #PoetryDayPoem
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We Carried May by Róisín Leggett Bohan
@leggettbohan.bsky.social is from Cork. She is co-founder of HOWL New Irish Writing. Her work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Magma, Aesthetica and The Pomegranate London, among others.
Find #PoetryDayIRL Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social DARTs!
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@poetryireland.bsky.social & #UlsterUniversity event with #JapaFire Poetry Anthology Book Launch featuring #NandiJola & others (virtual) in #LittleAcornsBookstore Thurs 1st May 6:30pm. All welcome. Free entry. Booking essential: tinyurl.com/5543fe2d 📚💚
Books for sale/signing
#PoetryDayIRL #Derry
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May Day by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock is a poet, haikuist, tankaist, novelist, children's author and translator, in the words of Hugh MacDiarmid a 'champion of forlorn causes'.
🌞 poetryday.ie
Find #PoetryDayIRL Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social DART services!
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