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10 Nov 2023
Much thanks to @eleanorbirne Sarah Castleton, everyone @CorsairBooks and the typesetter whose head I've put clean away the past few weeks ♥️ and how about that cover by @annabookdesign ? Goes right round the back so it does
10 Nov 2023
Demons, geese, The Laughing Cow, marching bands, LSD and pistols smuggled home from the USSR.
A stunning debut collection, bringing the ghettoised working-class into contemporary Irish poetry.
@al_mac_e
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Apr 1
Check out The End of Art by ZARA MEADOWS from Fourteen Poems. Superb.
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Mar 5
SINÉAD MORRISSEY talks about her amazing memoir AMONG COMMUNISTS @crescentarts Fri 20 March 5.30 with @al_mac_e What a book! A classic. Best memoir since Louis MacNeice's The Strings Are False.
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16 Sep 2025
For today's @TopTweetTuesday hosted by @ITattum I got curious about the Old English word for slug.
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8 Aug 2025
G'wan Browner!
8 Aug 2025
Check out the PBS Friday Eletter for a preview from our Autumn Recommendation Dean Browne, news of the Laurel Prize Finalists and much more mailchi.mp/poetr.../autumn25…
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7 Aug 2025
Feis Teamhra / A Turn at Tara features readings and performances by Irish writers and musicians. This year the event will feature poet Scott McKendry, writer Liz Nugent, and musicians Mary Coughlan & Ultan Conlon.
📅Aug 17th
🕜3:00-5:00pm
📍Visitors’ Centre on the Hill of Tara
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9 Jul 2025
Attended the launch of Mr Martin Mooney's new poetry book on a steamy night @BlackBoxBelfast. Tales of London barmen, nailing shells to driftwood and a firm, fine intro from @al_mac_e Good to see the man Mooney back again.
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4 Jun 2025
Starts tomorrow @QUBelfast @HeaneyCentre NORTH The magnificent collection that rendered obsolete most of Irish poetry since Yeats & destroyed the humdrum of Irish poetry at a stroke. Hercules & Antaeus come to grips again.
4 Jun 2025
50 years on, Seamus Heaney’s 'North' still resonates.
A conference (5–7 June) at @HeaneyCentre, co-hosted with @TCDEnglish, will bring together leading poets & scholars, including Trinity’s Dr Stephen O’Neill, Prof. @EvePatten9 & more.
🔗 tcd.ie/news_events/top-stori…
#NorthAt50
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17 May 2025
Great work by Karl O'Hanlon in the new @poetryireland Review, studying the 'riotous' Gub (@CorsairBooks), the debut from @al_mac_e @HeaneyCentre @ArtsCouncilNI
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3 Mar 2025
Catch poet Scott McKendry (@al_mac_e) on @RTElyricfm, with @NiChurr, @CeolConnected & @SONSOFSOUTHERN2, thinking Patrick Kavanagh. Brilliant collaboration by @kavanaghcentre & the broadcaster. Mighty. Folk punk. Homeric. rte.ie/radio/podcasts/224928…
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24 Feb 2025
Serious work in this map of the Belfast Pogroms from Dr Stephen O'Neill. Great resource.
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8 Feb 2025
poem in today's Times - and also a chance to say my collection will be published by Picador later this year!
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22 Jan 2025
Wonderful, original, memorable poems from Charles Lang & @SkeinPress out now; coveted @PoetryBookSoc Recommendation awardee where ye fae @ByLeavesWeLive
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22 Jan 2025
A ripe year ahead for poetry includes Dane Holt's debut from @Carcanet. He was 2023 Publishing Fellow @heaneycentre. Father's Father's Father is a @PoetryBookSoc Recommendation.
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13 Dec 2024
‘I’m very honoured to receive the Award. It comes at a pivotal time for the work.’
Scott McKendry @al_mac_e, current Ireland Chair of Poetry’s Poet of Promise, has been named as our Northern Ireland winner for the 2024 Jerwood Poetry Award.
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4 Dec 2024
Absolutely buzzed to announce that pre-orders for our new poetry collection The Oasis by Charles Lang are now open! tinyurl.com/27bv5hpx
❄️Special festive offer: all pre-orders received before December 16 will arrive beautifully gift-wrapped with a unique bespoke postcard!❄️
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4 Dec 2024
We offer our congratulations to the winners of this year’s Jerwood Poetry Award:
Karen McCarthy Woolf @KMcCarthyWoolf, clare e. potter @clare_potter, Roseanne Watt @shaetlan_rose and Scott McKendry @al_mac_e, each representing England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
ALT Blue background with white text: "Karen McCarthy Woolf. 2024 Winner for England. RSL Jerwood Poetry Awards."Blue background with white text: "Karen McCarthy Woolf. 2024 Winner for England. RSL Jerwood Poetry Awards."
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15 Nov 2024
Great to see Andrey Kurkov's Silver Bone, deftly trans. by @BorisDralyuk, on Paul Muldoon's Best Reads list. So too @al_mac_e's Gub, which Muldoon declares "[t]he most interesting poetry of recent times" & a collection notable for its mouthiness, myth-swanking and swazzle moves".
15 Nov 2024
If anyone knows about “wonderfully gritty” and “wacky,” it’s Paul Muldoon. @AKurkov and I are extremely grateful to be in the great poet’s bedside pile.
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Scott McKendry retweeted
3 Oct 2024
I bought 3 books yesterday to enjoy today on #NationalPoetryDay
I am posting one poem from each, no commentary, just the poem
The first is 'Male Line : A Fallacy' by Scott McKendry @al_mac_e
#poem
#POEMS
#poetry
#AmReading
#poemoftheday
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