Bill Tinley
@btin.bsky.social
Listening to the rooks querulous in the high wood.
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Friends, come and talk to me about Irish poetry in Aberdeen and we can catch up over a single malt or two. www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
Call for Papers: Alas Yes: Irish Poetry After Heaney, 20-21 February 2027
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Today is International Translation Day - this poem is about language, inheritance, & the emotional labour of a poet writing in English for a mother whose language is Spanish Translation is not a technical exercise but a metaphor for a child’s role to interpret for the parent #poetry #poemoftheday
@thegallerypress.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social The line-up for Saturday evening, Oct 17th, at this year's Circling The Square. To book tickets check the @sourcearts.bsky.social website.
Léiriú haiku amuigh faoin aer i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla agus rannpháirtíocht an phobail ann. Join us for a haiku reading in Irish and English with Liam Carson – featuring a gingko, or haiku walk, in which the audience will be invited to compose their own haiku.
Trí Mhionlíne / Three Little Lines - Dublin Book Festival
Join a bilingual Irish and English haiku walking tour with Liam Carson
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I have to confess I can't get past the sans serif. Why would you want your novel to look like a washing-machine instruction manual? I'm curious about Cusk but this piece wouldn't encourage me to bump her up the TBR list. @john-self.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Celebrity, sex and motherhood misery: the 10 best books by Rachel Cusk … ranked!
From an abstract portrait of an actor who might be Natalie Portman to a groundbreaking work of autofiction, we rate the best from the coolly controversial author
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Want to hear about some of the amazing rewilding projects happening across Ireland, and what we can learn from overseas, especially Scotland and Costa Rica? My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30.
A Bach prelude for your morning ☀️ The way this flows and maintains its rhythmic structure almost feels like a meditation. Be well my friends 🎹 Prelude in C, BWV 846 - J.S. Bach
RIP Wendell Berry. I've thought about this poem. 'Our Real Work', a lot since starting on Confluence with @julietgutch It reminds me of Paul Valéry : “Une difficulté est une lumière. Une difficulté insurmontable est un soleil." : “A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun”.
Light as a living, dancing, entity. And just listen to the rhythmic sounds...
Thanks Matthew Lyons for this invitation to join The Writer's Bookshelf and think aloud (on paper) and talk about my new project among other things.
Mathew Lyons@mathewlyons.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis morning’s guest on the Writer’s Bookshelf is the great @ianduhig.bsky.social.
The Game of Thrones theme was composed by Ramin Djawadi, who is of Iranian descent. Hearing this melody played with Persian instruments and the daf drum is absolutely beautiful. Original post
70yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards.
Every time I see one of his works, I cannot help walking around it again and again. I saw this one today. 🇺🇦 Nazar Bilyk The Space Around Us 2018 Bronze Watch till the end.
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The Punch That Ended a Friendship: Vargas Llosa, García Márquez and the Secret They Took to the Grave
A new biography of Mario Vargas Llosa revisits the extraordinary friendship behind one of the most famous ruptures in modern literary history. By James Hartley.
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Discovered this creature on a walk in Donadea Forest this morning. Apparently it's a hazel dormouse. It might be of interest to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. I have a few video clips but they won't load here.
I'm the Guest Poetry Editor for the October issue of The Madrid Review. Subs are now open and I look forward to reading your poems...! themadridreview.substack.com/p/submission...
Submissions for the October edition are open!
Please spread the message far and wide and we'd love to read your work from wherever you are in the world!
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Having breakfast outside this morning, I turned on Merlin to verify if that was a bullfinch I could hear. (It was - I'm learning!) But when the recording ended, it had picked up a long-eared owl. In Maynooth. Is that possible? Maybe @birdwatchireland.bsky.social might know?
David Pakman: #SenileSatan woudn't leave. #WorldCup #Spain
Very grateful to Steve Whitaker at The Yorkshire Times for this look at my poem 'Marky'. The Irish proverb epigraph translates as 'It is often a man's mouth broke his nose'.
