This week's #ReadWithAC selection is 'Clockhammer', a new poetry collection by @paulperrywriter. We're very proud to have supported Paul's writing career through our Bursary Award. Published by #ArtsCouncilSupported Doire Press. Read more: bit.ly/4oLdTk6

🧑‍🎓✨ Congratulations to Professor Paul Perry, Director of the UCD Mary Lavin Centre for Creative Writing, whose new work, Pity About You, has been named the Irish Times Poem of the Week. Paul is an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter, winner of the Hennessy Prize for Irish Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at UCD School of English, Drama and Film, where he directs the Creative Writing Programme. --- Pity about you, how the city lights look different now - Dublin, the rain falling like we’d forgotten it could. I think you said something, but I wasn’t listening, I keep thinking if I could just take it easy, let the hours unfold without this tug of knowing, I’d remember your laughter better, how it always came just when I needed it. The room is quiet now, but the sound of you is there. I think of the way you would smile when I asked, “Are we lost?” The way you’d look around; the answer just out of reach. No explanation needed. Just a glance. And I’d follow you. Now, it’s only me, walking through the silence of what used to be - the way the city holds its breath just beyond the noise I’m always trying to outrun. Like how you slip between the words I can’t quite find and the space you leave behind. --- ✍️ @PaulPerryWriter | @HumanitiesUCD irishtimes.com/culture/books…

Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotters fumble towards human connection in the expertly funny and tender Men in Love independent.ie/entertainment…

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Paul Perry: ‘The Journey Home by Dermot Bolger lit something in me. I didn’t just want to read more – I wanted to write’ independent.ie/entertainment…

“But in truth, laughter and creativity are deeply political. They’re forms of resistance.” A quote for our times!! @ShaunaGilligan1 chats to @PaulPerryWriter about his forthcoming novel Paradise House. Great interview! shaunagilliganwriter.com/202…

Writers Chat 77: Paul Perry on "Paradise House" (Somerville Press, 2025) shaunagilliganwriter.com/202… via @shaunagilligan1

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Joyce friends I’m excited about this one

The Garden is now on Audible;

When Joyce returned from exile in 1909 to open Ireland's first cinema, he hoped the Volta would be a great success. It was not. But what if it had been. Welcome to ‘Paradise House’. Pub in 2025 by Somerville. 'Stunning, gripping,wonderful and completely original.' E Ni Dhuibhne

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