i'm reaching out and engaging / listowel @writersweek 2023 / poems in poetry magazine, poetry ireland, etc / views are my own, etc

Joined March 2011
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💫The Cúirt 2024 programme is now live Discover the full programme online now at cuirt.ie and join us this April 23-28 in Galway. We are honoured to feature this incredible artwork from Galway based artist Miriam de Búrca #Cúirt2024 #galway #discoverireland
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Armagh 5k, NI & Ulster Intermediate/Masters XC, Raheny 5 mile, Trim 10 mile… catch all of this in Episode 10 of The Back Straight Podcast ft. Special guest, @closeandslow (Stephen Connolly!). We hope you enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/0ZT…
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stephen sexton reading poems by @TohaMosab in belfast tonight, in solidarity at the @_IAFP event in the black box
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glenn patterson reading from ‘love story in ramallah’ by ibrahim nasrallah in the black box in belfast @_IAFP
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mohammed el-kurd @m7mdkurd reading his own poems, via video, and a poem by—of all people—padraic fiacc @_IAFP
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23 Nov 2023
Vicar Street is now on sale! ticketmaster.ie/irish-writer…
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there’s so much dingle in door into the dark
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i tell you what: kerry’s a beautiful place
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all four events are now sold out
tickets are on sale on monday for these all-island events more information here: irishtimes.com/culture/books…
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10 Nov 2023
For one bookshop owner, corneal transplants have been "transformative and so important" - but, with people regularly choosing not to donate them, patients in Northern Ireland are facing a longer wait due to a shortage of available corneas. bbc.in/3MBQ9i8
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tickets are on sale on monday for these all-island events more information here: irishtimes.com/culture/books…
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stephen connolly retweeted
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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‘the winner of the rooney prize for 2023 is michael magee for close to home’
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The Irish Mail reports some of the friction behind the scenes at the #LateLateShow is due to the ‘large proportion of northern guests’ since the relaunch. ‘It seems there’s a higher quota of guests from the North than the rest of the country. It’s not going down well with staff”
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this week’s bit for the andersonstown news on being up a mountain and watching a story about me play out in different ways (and a bunch of men discussing me on facebook)
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'the preponderance of northern names led some local wags to label the forthcoming festival the ‘continuity writers’ week''—that's a new one to me mick clifford in the @irishexaminer today irishexaminer.com/opinion/co…
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"...his relentlessly radical approach to his artistic life and work would have caused a seismic shift in the culture of any city lucky enough to have him as an inhabitant." Lovely tribute to the much-loved and much-missed Ciaran Carson by @closeandslow. belfastmedia.com/a-carson-tr…
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