A joy to judge the inaugural Three Pillars Press Pamphlet Award 2026 #ThreePillarsPress #poetry WINNER 'The Outside World' by Niamh Twomey RUNNER-UP 'M(other)ing' by Elaine Westnott-O’Brien My congratulations to the Highly Commended & Commended poets also. www.3pillarspress.com/post/the-res...

The Results - 2026 Poetry Pamphlet Competition

We are delighted to announce the results of the Three Pillars Press 2026 Poetry Pamphlet competition. Our judge Eleanor Hooker wrote:It was a joy and an honour to read the entries for the inaugural Th...

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Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent continues to dominate the Independent Bookshop Top 20 by taking a fifth week in the top slot 👇

Pushing the envelope: Five weeks at the top of the Indie chart for Virginia Evans

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Time for a #painting "Howth Lighthouse and Dublin Bay" was one of the dozens of paintings I did the first time I did a 24-hour livestreamed video painting marathon thing. It's an evening view of the Baily Lighthouse and across the bay as seen from high up on the Howth Cliff Walk #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

‘We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone’ We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from @elfodongo.bsky.social @pcevans.bsky.social @eleanorhooker.bsky.social @jonathangibbs.bsky.social @katefeld.bsky.social @tomvowler.bsky.social @bentufnell.bsky.social & more thelonelycrowd.org/online-shop-...

The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd

Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...

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Wildfires still burning on our beautiful Sliabh na mBan. Hoping the fire and rescue teams keep safe. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Utterly delighted and grateful to be on this list.

💙💛 President Catherine Connolly hosted a reception at Áras an Uachtaráin for students from Gaza who have come to study at universities in Ireland, including University College Dublin. @president.ie

Prose poems! Prose poems! Get yer lovely contemporary prose poems here

Pinks #45: Angels and Bandages

Seven prose poems from new books I'm enjoying

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‘Why Gaza cannot be erased from the Mediterranean narrative: Maynooth University student @abdallaha.bsky.social reflects on identity, loss and the absence of Gaza from academic discourse’ Magnificent writing by Abdallah in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Abdallah Aljazzar: Why Gaza cannot be erased from the Mediterranean narrative

Maynooth University student Abdallah Aljazzar reflects on identity, loss and the absence of Gaza from academic discourse

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Fabulous launch this evening of @leeannequinn.bsky.social new collection 'Landscape With Question' @carcanet.bsky.social - with a great introduction by poet @sashadugdale.bsky.social, and just incredible readings from Leeanne. Can't wait for my copy to arrive in the post. #poetry #launch

‘knocked the top field…’ #Hay

. @martindoyle.bsky.social's Weekend Book Club roundup @irishtimes.com #BookNews www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

International Booker Prize fund doubles

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

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Am so enjoying Billy Ramsell’s new collection ‘Render’ - congratulations to Billy and to @bansheepress.bsky.social on another gorgeous book. Read the whole world in the sum of ‘A Pocket Square’, a tiny poem, as economic and controlled as it expansive and expressive... #Poetry

and while I prefer to read from a book, to hold it and even dog-ear it, the advantage of ebooks is the search option, and the ease it provides to look up phrases, repeated phrases and passages in the text... #ABookThing #Reading #Books

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters October 16

YouTube video by Focus Features

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...the third death is “that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time” Pleased to be Talks Curator for the #ThomasMacDonaghHedgeSchool 2026 (16-19 September) again this yr Thanks to Garry Cotter, Editor at the Nenagh Guardian, for publishing my article this week.

New hardback forthcoming of Bowen's novels The Last September & The Death of the Heart. Intro by #tessahadley Published 30 July 2026 | Everyman’s Library | £17.99 | Hardback '...depths of private tragedy with a subtle ferocity and psychological complexity reminiscent of Henry James.'

Researching the life of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter, pioneering #freshwater ecologist in Wales and North America. thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...

Who was... Kathleen Carpenter?

A biography of Kathleen Carpenter, a pioneering freshwater ecologist.

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Last walk of the day and we hear a sedge warbler A little bird with a big voice Kicking up a fuss all night Serenades - Heaney the bird is considered a comforting spirit of the dead …believed to carry the souls of children returning to the waterside to sing and comfort their grieving mothers

Lovely to see Maggie O'Farrell chose Seán Farrell's #FrogsForWatchdogs (New Island Books) as her favourite read of 2025 @lilliputpress.bsky.social #Books www.her.ie/books/maggie...

Maggie O'Farrell shares her recommended reads

Last week, we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with legendary author Maggie O'Farrell to discuss her new release Land.

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A fascinating, informative, well-considered set of responses to a rerun of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social Survey of Poets, which they first ran in Feb. 1962. Among those who respond this time are @joriegraham.bsky.social and @lukekennard.bsky.social a.o. thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...

Essay | A 2026 Survey of Poets - The London Magazine

The London Magazine speaks to Jorie Graham, Don Paterson, A. E. Stallings and more about the state of poetry and poets today.

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“...the steep rise of technology really does change so much culturally and socially, there’s this value of handwritten communication, which is kind of how we have history.” www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Women’s Prize winner Virginia Evans calls for letter-writing to make a comeback

The American author’s epistolary debut, about a witty, letter-loving woman in her seventies, has inspired readers across the world to pick up a pen

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Living furniture #GrandfatherClock

The first translation of Dirty Linen, into Polish by Maciej Studencki, is published in August by Luneta. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Fewer sleeps now! My website has been updated. Some #haiku sequences from ‘Wishing Tree Note’ are in there now, along with a facility to order copies. Also other work (poems, haibun, essays & features), plus some info on my workshops and mentoring. Why don’t you swing by? www.maeveosullivan.com

'Selling one’s soul and saving it' by Raymond Geuss, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge Essay in the latest Dublin Review of Books #EthicalQuestions drb.ie/blog/selling...