Lauren O’Donovan
@laurenodonovanw.bsky.social
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award | Fool for Poetry Chapbook Comp | Cúirt New Writing Prize | Southword Poetry Prize | Howl New Irish Writing & Lime Square Poets | Arts Council Supported
It’s Superposition’s one year birthday! I’m forever grateful to the @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social, and CANT WAIT to hear this year’s winners read tomorrow at 3pm at Cork Arts Theatre — especially Roisin Leggett Bohan reading from We Fall We Carry!
Ha! Love it! I’ll have to keep that review for the cover of the next book @kevinmacalan.bsky.social 😝
Kevin MacAlan@kevinmacalan.bsky.social · 4mo agoOnly just getting around to mentioning the poetry lounge in Waterford on the 25th. Three readers, all brilliant. This lady @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social will disarm you with a joke then fell you with a single line. You think she’s throwing cushions, but they have bricks in them. #writingcommunity
Today: Cork launch of the phenomenal Goddess Complex by Shaunna Lee Lynch at Cork City Library during @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social 👏 👏 👏
Can’t wait to talk all things Publishing with the Irish Writers Centre March 7
Irish Writers Centre@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 6mo agoTickets for our spring publishing day are online now! Hear from leading publishers, agents, writers and editors as they demystify the industry. www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-writ...
Looking forward to the reading and editing ahead 😍
HOWL New Irish Writing@howlwriting.bsky.social · 6mo agoHOWL 26 submissions are now open. We’re accepting poetry and prose (fiction and nonfiction) in English agus as Gaeilge from February 13th – February 23rd. We want the raw and the real. If it excites you, send it to us. Full guidelines + submission details: 🔗 www.howlwriting.ie#submit
We’re delighted to share some very good news: Molly Twomey and Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir are joining the HOWL 26 team working on English language poetry and fiction. More @ www.howlwriting.ie/post/new-add...
HOWL 26 Team Additions
We’re delighted to share some very good news: Molly Twomey and Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir are joining the HOWL 26 team working on English language poetry and fiction.Both are writers whose work and pre...
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Very grateful to see my chapbook Superposition reviewed in the winter issue of The Poetry Review by Godelieve de Bree. There’s no greater joy to a poet than a careful, generous reading — especially from a journal that has shaped so much of the poetry landscape.
Looking forward to reading at Cultivating Voices this weekend with a wit of fabulous poets 🤩 (it’s one of my favourite word games to think of collective nouns for a group of poets)
Very much enjoying issue 146 of PIR which is packed with new poems and art by Stephen JohnsonVery grateful to @isabeldwyer.bsky.social for reviewing my pamphlet Superposition, to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social for publishing it, and to @poetryireland.bsky.social for providing a platform 🙏
Lauren O’Donovan @LaurenODonovanW.bsky.social has won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Cúirt New Writing Prize, Southword Subscriber’s Poetry Prize and, most recently, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Lauren is a grateful recipient of Cork County Council Arts and Arts Council funding.
Really delighted to be honoured by the Sister Cities organization and Dr. Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney who will read from and discuss my poetry books Taxidermy Heart and Superposition in Newport News, Virginia this Sunday over what sounds like most delicious afternoon tea 🫖🎂
Wonderful launch for @mollytwomey.bsky.social’s Chic to Be Sad last night in @waterstones.bsky.social 😍
Getting caught up on summer media — it was a thrill to be at the award ceremony for the CIPF Farmgate Award this year which went to the amazingly talented Victoria Kennefick for Egg/Shell — www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
It was an honour to be interviewed by the Echo last month about my book Superposition — here’s the link to the article online in case anyone wanted to read it and missed the print edition: www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...
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Prize-winning Carrigaline poet Lauren O’Donovan tells COLETTE SHERIDAN about her latest work, and why she feels there isn’t enough discussion around ...
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Little late posting, but had such a brilliant time in Galway for the @ragairemagazine launch. RAGAIRE is available to buy online, or at loads of good bookshops 🤩 ragairemagazine.com/buy/ ### Photos by Alanna Scully Photography
If you’re a writer in Ireland, you’ve probably used Angela’s website to learn about submissions:
Angela T. Carr@angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · last yr.I don't share much personal info on here but caught in a nightmare I didn't create, I'm now facing the loss of my home after years of fighting for justice. Your support can help me reclaim my life and move on. Please share and donate if you can. gofund.me/29937d78
Congratulations 🥳 👏
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann@poetryireland.bsky.social · last yr.Vona Groarke has been welcomed by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust as the new Ireland Professor of Poetry, one of the most prestigious positions in poetry. The position will run from September 2025 to November 2028. Full press release here: www.poetryireland.ie/news/vona-gr...
My chapbook Superposition has one rating on Amazon - 4/5 stars 😱 There’s no review text so I’ll never know why my first and only review was docked a star 🤪 It must have been because of late delivery or something surely 😝
Jennifer Horgan will read from her debut poetry collection Care in our @doirepress.bsky.social event on Fri 11 July and her book got an incredible @irishexaminer.bsky.social last weekend. "This is a book filled with outstanding poems" @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Poetry review: A debut that urges us to care
Divided into five sections, this is a collection that very deliberately speaks to Ireland in the 2020s
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In the most violent unstreamed wrestling competition of 2025, in the final round, in the very last minute, I beat my website into obedience and now you can finally buy both my books online! (If that’s what you’re into 🖤) laurenodonovan.com
Honoured and beyond to be launching Skylight 47 issue #20 in Galway on Thursday at 6pm! I have huge admiration for Skylight: one of Ireland’s only broadsheet formats, every issue so beautifully and carefully printed, alongside exquisite art 🖼️ Hope you can join me!
Celebrating Seamus Heaney’s ‘North’ 50th birthday yesterday in Cork with fabulous company Róisín Leggett Bohan, Molly Twomey, and Tom McCarthy 🛥️ 🌊
It was terribly fancy and very cool to get to read some poems at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin this week. I’m so grateful to everyone who came, and to the wonderful IWC staff — especially the fantabulous Damien Donnelly — All the professional photos by ANDRES POVEDA
What an amazing treat and honour to be invited to read @IrishWritersCtr alongside 4 poets I admire so much — really a bucket list moment! So grateful for the wonderful IWC team 🙏 and especially Damien!
Damien B Donnelly@eatthestorms.com · last yr.This week, we held our first Writers Showcase at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Find out all about @scyflynn.bsky.social @itosha.bsky.social @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social & D'or Seifer in our blog irishwriterscentre.ie/writers-show...
Tonight 🤩
Lauren O’Donovan@laurenodonovanw.bsky.social · last yr.Can’t wait to read in Dublin at the Irish Writers Centre this Wednesday at 6:30pm along with the incredible poets Afric McGlinchey, Luke Morgan, D’or Seifer, and S. C. Flynn. Would love to see you there if you are free, willing, and able! irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...