The Irish Pages Press
@irishpages.bsky.social
Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
“... who are the real marauders & plunderers of British society? Shouldn’t it be the multinationals that warehouse their profits in various special-purpose vehicles? Shouldn’t it be the MPs who fix their expense claims to make a quick buck?” ~ Ahmed Olayinka Sule 📚 irishpages.org/product/rott...
As it’s #WITmonth once again, we heartily recommend our Croatian partner, Fraktura, publisher of innumerable essential Balkan authors, including Ivana Šojat: irishpages.org/product/unte... & the late Slavenka Drakulić: irishpages.org/product/theo... Happy reading! 📚 #Booksky
I did a podcast about documentaries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Empire klassiki.online/mark-cousins...
Mark Cousins tells the history of documentary film
Mark Cousins joins host Sam Goff to discuss his epic Story of Documentary Film and the role of Eastern Europe in non-fiction history.
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Avi on point as usual. His book is also a must read. @irishpages.bsky.social #avishlaim #palestine #genocide
Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.social · 3d agoListen to this scathing statement by Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, about his country. GB, EU and USA, would have us believe, Iran is guilty of everything he mentions here. Granted this clip is a few years old, but it isn’t any less true today. What are the US, GB and EU really defending and why?
“... but the mountain thyme is in flames, / and our bonny purple heather.” ~ from ‘In the Cairngorms’ by Kathleen Jamie, a new #poem published in yesterday’s @observeruk.bsky.social: observer.co.uk/culture/book...
In the Cairngorms by Kathleen Jamie The heartbreaking Sunday Poem printed in today’s Observer newspaper. #Poetry ❤️ ..’the mountain thyme is in flames, / and our bonny purple heather.’
Last night, when the moon slipped into my attic-room disguised as an oblong of light, I sensed she’d come to commiserate. It was August. She travelled with a small valise of darkness… —Kathleen Jamie, “Moon” from SELECTED POEMS, (Picador, 2018) #poem #poetry www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
“One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counter-statements to the reigning pieties. Even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness.” ~ Susan Sontag (2003) irishpages.org/product/empi...
For anyone who missed the online launch of Garry MacKenzie’s ‘Firth’ during the week, there are still tickets going for his in-person reading at Topping & Co. (St Andrews) on Thursday, Sept 3rd 📚 It promises to be a splendid evening (details here): www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an... #booksky
Just saw Clash by Night, stormy 50s ideasy drama directed by Fritz Lang. Clifford Odets play I think, adapted by the great Alfred Hayes. Feminism, love as destruction. B Stanwyck, Marilyn M both full throttle. Heady, steely
The Oslo Accords entrenched Israel occupation. And were never designed to benefit Palestinians. This article sums it all up very well. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's now clear: the Oslo peace accords were wrecked by Netanyahu's bad faith | Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim: I thought the peace accords 20 years ago could work, but Israel used them as cover for its colonial project in Palestine
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TONIGHT! Be there, fish poem lovers! 🐟
Vicky MacKenzie@vickymackenzie.bsky.social · last wk.Garry's online launch for 'Firth' is THIS WEEK! Free to attend, 7.30pm on Thursday, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau... Chaired by wonderful poet and musician @rebeccasharp.bsky.social #BookSky #Poetry
Tonight! Please join us 📚
The Irish Pages Press@irishpages.bsky.social · last wk.“Beginnings: the sky brought down into the secrecy of fox-hole, taproot; water tabernacled with the wren in limestone crevices...” ~ Garry MacKenzie, ‘Firth’ 🌊 Do join us for the online launch of this superbly original book tomorrow (Thursday)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau... @asls.org.uk
“Beginnings: the sky brought down into the secrecy of fox-hole, taproot; water tabernacled with the wren in limestone crevices...” ~ Garry MacKenzie, ‘Firth’ 🌊 Do join us for the online launch of this superbly original book tomorrow (Thursday)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau... @asls.org.uk
Garry's online launch for 'Firth' is THIS WEEK! Free to attend, 7.30pm on Thursday, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau... Chaired by wonderful poet and musician @rebeccasharp.bsky.social #BookSky #Poetry
Online Launch: Firth by Garry MacKenzie
Join us to celebrate the online launch of Garry MacKenzie's ambitious new poetry collection Firth.
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The Irish Pages Press@irishpages.bsky.social · last wk.The count-down is on! Please join us this Thursday for the online launch of Garry MacKenzie’s superb new #poetry collection, ‘Firth’ 🌊 Full details below 📚 @vickymackenzie.bsky.social
The count-down is on! Please join us this Thursday for the online launch of Garry MacKenzie’s superb new #poetry collection, ‘Firth’ 🌊 Full details below 📚 @vickymackenzie.bsky.social
The Irish Pages Press@irishpages.bsky.social · last mo.We’re glad to announce the online launch of ‘Firth’ by Garry MacKenzie, on July 30th (7.30pm): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau... Garry will be in conversation with @rebeccasharp.bsky.social (fellow poet/dynamo) 🌊 More on ‘Firth’ at: irishpages.org/product/firt... @vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Avi Shlaim: ‘I have a moral duty to denounce Zionist settler colonialism and American imperialism’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5szl...
Avi Shlaim: ‘I have a moral duty to denounce Zionist settler colonialism and American imperialism’
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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A #poem from ‘Prophetstown’ by @corourke91.bsky.social, a book that examines (in his words) “the relationship of the nature poem to patterns & infrastructures of exploitation that continue to fuel what most of us think of as civilisation”🌻 Now available: irishpages.org/product/prop... #Booksky
“One can only hope that, under the new management, the change in Labour’s policy on Israel-Palestine will not be merely tonal but substantive...” ~ Irish Pages author Avi Shlaim on the Burnham government and Palestine (2026) www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/will...
Will Burnham liberate Labour's Palestine policy from Starmer's dead hand?
A substantive change would involve calling Israel’s actions a genocide, implementing trade sanctions, banning all arms sales to Israel and, last but not least, the repeal of the ban on Palestine Actio...
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The text of Lachlann Mòr MacMhuirich’s brosnachadh, & Meg Bateman’s translation, are from THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongate.co.uk 2021 4/4 canongate.co.uk/books/3267-t...
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Peter Mackay - Canongate Books
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Peter Mackay - hardback (9781838852610) published by Canongate. A timeless gift edition of the greatest poetic works from Scotlan...
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“I know no poet currently practising more gifted, original and accomplished...” ~ Andrew McNeillie Just over a week until the online launch of ‘Firth’ by Garry MacKenzie! A major new work of Scottish eco-poetry 🌊 Please join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau... @vickymackenzie.bsky.social
And Patricia Craig on 'Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark' (2025). drb.ie/article/a-li...
Chris@staggerlee42.bsky.social · 2w ago
“The best hope for resolving the century-old conflict between Jews & Palestinians lies not in the partition of Palestine but in building one democratic state from the river to the sea with equal rights for all its citizens, regardless of religion or ethnicity.” ~ Avi Shlaim 🕊️
“Isn’t it ironic that while statisticians are keen to compile data on black killing blacks, they refrain from publishing data on white-on-white killings... “Black crime” is a pleonasm, whereas “White crime” is an oxymoron in modern-day Britain” ~ Ahmed Olayinka Sule: irishpages.org/product/rott...
“Like everything that Christopher Nolan does, 'The Odyssey'aims for magnificence and ends up somewhere else – landing mid-way between silly and spectacular. He is a forger of graceless epics, visually striking but hampered by conventions...” Wrote this 🎬 www.ragpickerpoetry.net/prose/cultur...
The Odyssey
Like everything that Christopher Nolan does, The Odyssey (2026) aims for magnificence and ends up somewhere else – landing mid-way between silly and spectacular. He is a forger of graceless epics, vis...
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“Writing does not have to be intellectual, but it does help if it is intelligent.” ~ Eileen Battersby (1956-2018), writing in our inaugural issue 📚 irishpages.org/product/belf...
