Next SpeakEasy Open Mic with special guest @martinadalton.bsky.social is on Sept 11 at 8pm. Martina is a poet from Tramore, and her debut collection Midnight at the Salt Marsh was recently published by The Gallery Press. Music by Kieran Joy & and Open Mic.

It's a great honour to judge the inaugural Three Pillars Press Poetry Pamphlet Awards. Congratulations to poets Ger Duffy and @billyfenton.bsky.social on this great initiative. #Poetry www.facebook.com/share/v/1H8H...

Best wishes to @billyfenton.bsky.social and Ger. So much poetry energy from Waterford at the moment. Good luck 👍

Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ger Duffy and Billy Fenton have started a new poetry press, focussing on publishing poetry pamphlets from new and emerging poets. Their first submission window will open from Jan-Feb 2026. The website is www.3pillarspress.com @3pillarspress #poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets

Ger Duffy and Billy Fenton have started a new poetry press, focussing on publishing poetry pamphlets from new and emerging poets. Their first submission window will open from Jan-Feb 2026. The website is www.3pillarspress.com @3pillarspress #poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets

Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents The Poetry Lounge, with readings from Molly Twomey, Caroline Bracken and Bernadette Gallagher. 🕰️ Sat 29th November 🗓️ 2-4pm ⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art, O’Connell Street, Waterford 🎟️Free 🔗More info on our site

Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents a generative Poetry Workshop. Facilitated by Molly Twomey, Southword Debut Collection winner. 🕰️ Sat 29th November 🗓️ 10.30am-12.30pm ⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art 🎟️Admission: €25 🔗 Book via our website.

Poetry By The Barrow: November Open Mic, presented in association with Poetry Ireland! With featured poets Jessamine O'Connor, Charlie Gracie and Martin Goldie, as we kiss goodbye to 2025. 📆Sun. 30th November 🕧12:30pm 📍Doyles cozy backroom, Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny 🎫Free

The Art of Surfacing, our e-book featuring work from the 14 emerging poets of this year's Introductions / Céadlínte series is now available to purchase! Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/ Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊

One of the many brilliant poets from Introductions / Céadlínte 2025 Jacob Ray-Halliday reading at the showcase with Dublin Book Festival. 🎤 Jacob’s poems, along with many others from our Introductions / Céadlínte poets will be available in an e-pub coming out later this week!

On Friday Oct 24 8pm, at Phil Grimes pub and venue in Waterford City, SpeakEasy will host Ireland Professor of Poetry Vona Groarke. Vona is shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize. She will give a reading, and will also be in conversation with Waterford poet, @mollytwomey. @poetryireland

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Bloodaxe Books@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 12mo ago

It's publication day for our three brilliant September titles: @poetclare.bsky.social's Lives of the Female Poets, @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana, and @emiliejelinek.bsky.social's The Sky Around My Father, winner of the @mslexia.bsky.social Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024.

Next SpeakEasy Waterford on Sept 26 with special guest, debut novelist Orla Mackey. Open Mic and music as well.

We're very excited to announce this— Off The Scéal is a brand new Multilingual Open-Mic night created and hosted by the amazing @danflynn94.bsky.social and myself 😍 Come on down to the DLR Lexicon Studio and join us for a night of poetry and song —

The 2025 Introductions | Céadlínte programme is underway! We’re delighted to welcome this new cohort of poets and hope that Introductions will provide them with many new creative opportunities as they launch their promising writing careers. Visit to our website to learn more!

So delighted to be selected for @poetryireland.bsky.social Introductions 2025, and really looking forward to it. Congratulations to all those selected. Thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for selecting me.

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann@poetryireland.bsky.social · last yr.

Announcing Poetry Ireland’s Introductions | Céadlínte poets for 2025! Thanks to Jessica Traynor for selecting our Introductions poets and Aifric Mac Aodha for selecting our Céadlínte poets. Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and Arts Council Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.

Delighted to have a poem in the latest edition of the unique Abridged journal - Lilith edition, alongside a very stiking image from Kseniia Antipina @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Thanks so much to the editors.

We're pleased to present Abridged 0 - 105: Lilith. We hope you like it. We do. www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... Image by Kseniia Antipina. See you in Belfast at the Golden Thread Gallery tomorrow night! @goldenthreadni.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #poetry

Waterford City - Next SpeakEasy Open Mic with some very special guests this Friday. Come along and read, or to listen.

Tickets are now available for CIPF-2025 Jane Clarke and Pádraig Ó Tuama at Cork Arts Theatre, Ireland. www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/ire...

May 23, SpeakEasy Open MIc, Waterford with guest poet Mícheál McCann. Mícheál is from Derry City. His poems have been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review and Banshee.He holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s. Devotion is his first collection, from Gallery Press.

Hello everyone! We’re excited to announce that submissions for this year’s issue will be opening soon! Each category will be reviewed by a special guest judge (announced next week). Send us your best—we can’t wait to read what you’ve been working on!

Tomorrow in Waterford

Submission Call open now! Don't be tardy!

Abridged@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

Don't forget our Umbra Sumus submission call is now open! Poetry and/or Art Required! See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! #poetry #poetrymagazine

Tomorrow is May Day. We remember the fight against Fascism. 5pm at the Spanish Civil War Memorial. #NoPasaran

Cllr Seamus Ryan@seamusryan1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us on May Day at the Spanish Civil War memorial in #Waterford when we come together to remember those brave Waterford men who fought in the #SpanishCivilWar against the fascists

Looking forward to celebrating Poetry Day Ireland with these wonderful poets in The Book Centre Waterford Thursday 1st May 📖📚 It would be lovely to see you there! ❤️💫✨ #PoetryDayIRL @poetryireland.bsky.social

Poetry Day Event, Waterford

Tickets on sale here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-york... @jamesyorkston.bsky.social is consistently one of our best gigs.

James Yorkston at SubTsounds

One of Scotland's best and most influential singer songwriters returns to Subterranean Sounds, Waterford. Not to be missed!

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patrickhen.bsky.social@patrickhen.bsky.social · last yr.

Can't wait to see this guy in Phil Grimes Pub very soon....

Celebrating Arlen House at 50 Luke Morgan's *Blood Atlas* Winner of 2025 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry 1st launch 2 May: Strokestown Poetry Festival at 8.30pm (Plus 23 May at Charlie Byrne's, Galway & 1 June at Books Upstairs, Dublin) BUY kennys.ie/shop/blood-a...

Our Umbra Sumus Submission Call is now open! Poetry and/or Art required!

Abridged@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · last yr.

We're pleased to present our Umbra Sumus Submission Call. Poetry and/or Art Required! See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! #poetry #poetrymagazine @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

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