I'm loving this chapbook from the wonderful @leggettbohan.bsky.social Available from @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

My award-winning chapbook 'We Fall We Carry' has landed. The official launch is at #corkinternationalpoetryfestival on Saturday the 16th of May at 3pm. It would be lovely to see you there. 🩶 @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Mammoth delight to be shortlisted alongside a host of stellar creators ✨️

The London Magazine@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are delighted to share the shortlist of 8 poems for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2026! Congratulations to all shortlisted writers, and thank you to our judges Isabelle Baafi, Dean Browne and Luke Kennard. Winners will be announced later this week.

Mammoth joy to have a new poem coming soon in this beauty of a book ✨️

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann@poetryireland.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨Poetry Ireland Review Issue 148, edited by Sinéad Morrissey, is now available for pre-order!✨ It features new poems from Leontia Flynn, Frank Ormsby, Mai Ishikawa, and Jim McElroy, Judy O’Kane and Joshua Beatty, among many others. 🔗Pre-order: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...

Congratulations to Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social and Katie Hale @katiescribbles.bsky.social. Their chapbooks will be published next year and launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival in May @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delighted to announce the Fool for Poetry winners and commended. Congratulations to them all and also a thank you to everyone who submitted an entry to this competition. All the details available on our website www.munsterlit.ie #poetry #writing #poetrycompetition

Huge gratitude to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for this interview with @booksireland.bsky.social 🩶 Looking forward to reading with Jennifer Horgan, Lianne O'Hara and Martin Dyar @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 10mo ago

'I think I was eleven when I read the popular psychology title, The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck.' 📕Q&A with Róisín Leggett Bohan📕 @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @howlwriting.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/qa-roisin-le...

What an honour to be the recipient of The Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025. Thrilled to be chosen by the effervescent poet Victoria Kennefick and so delighted for my poetry pals, including the fabulous Martina Dalton who was highly commended 🩶

So lovely to have my poem 13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts featured @rteradio1.bsky.social Huge gratitude to Belinda McKeon for selecting my work. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts by Róisín Leggett Bohan

For Culture Night 2025, Guest Editor Belinda McKeon has curated a number of works from emerging creative talents of note...

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Breda Spaight, an extraordinary poet ✨️

Breda Spaight@bredaspaight.bsky.social · last yr.

Feeling humbled and grateful. A beautiful introduction to Watching for the Hawk in the Versopolis Review, written by the brilliant @leggettbohan.bsky.social‬. Thanks to @arlenhouse.bsky.social‬ and @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social‬. www.versopolis.com/poets 💙🕊️

I'm so pleased to be reading alongside a cast of poetry stars at Waterstones Cork for the launch of Southword Issue 48. Come join us if you're in town: 15th of July at 6:30pm. @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social 💫

My wee poem will be featured on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight at 7:30pm. alongside great writers. Thank you to @zoecomyns.bsky.social & Belinda McKeon for selecting my work. It's such a fabulous show! 🤍

Delighted to have three new poems featured in this gorgeous issue. Wholehearted thanks to the editors of @manchesterreview.bsky.social ⚡️

Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · last yr.

Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is Now Live! We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe. We hope you enjoy reading our new issue. www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

I'm so grateful to the wonderful poet and editor @annemarienichurreain for including two of my poems in this gorgeous issue of @stingingfly 🤍 'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' began in @ulstermuseum while attending @seamusheaneycentre summer school. 🤍

Come celebrate with us tonight! Waterstones Cork, 6:30pm. Would love to see you there! 🩶🤍🩶

'Beginnings Over and Over' are present in every moment. How nourishing it was to read with poetry pals @ilfdublin.bsky.social in celebration of this gorgeous book, holistically edited @leeannequinn.bsky.social Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶

Celebrate our Cork launch at Waterstones on Tuesday the 27th of May at 6:30pm. We'd love to see you there! 🩶 Introductions by the effervescent @Leeanne_Quinn. Readings by Cal O'Reilly, Mai Ishikawa, and Róisín Leggett Bohan 🩶

This poem is just stunning. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Poetry Day Ireland 2025: We Carried May by Róisín Leggett Bohan

For Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day...

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Oh, look, it's a poem! Thank you to Aerial, the cat who accompanied me on my nightwalks in The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in May 2023. Small things keep on giving ✨️

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

We Carried May by Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social is from Cork. She is co-founder of HOWL New Irish Writing. Her work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Magma, Aesthetica and The Pomegranate London, among others. Find #PoetryDayIRL Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social DARTs!

I would highly recommend Jennifer Horgan's exquisite collection, 'Care', published @doirepress.bsky.social Her work is a joy to witness 🩶

West Cork Literary Festival@wcorklitfest.bsky.social · last yr.

Poet @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social will be at WCLF on 11 July in a @doirepress.bsky.social event alongside Claire Hennessy @chennessybooks.bsky.social. Lovely to see Jennifer in Beginner's Pluck column @irishexaminer.bsky.social 🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/LFProgramme www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Thrilled to have our book 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland '(Dedalus Press) featured on the Books for Breakfast podcast. Huge thanks to Mary O' Donnell, Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr for their close reading and praise.🩶⚡️🩶 www.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...

77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetry - Books for Breakfast

On this episode we talk to poet novelist and critic Mary O’Donnell about Mary O’Malley’s The Shark Nursery, Patrick Holloway’s The Language of Remembering,  ! All’ ARME /? by Eilish Martin a...

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Excited to be reading at @ilfdublin.bsky.social with poetry pals of 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' #dedaluspress and the ever-giving @leeanne_quinn 🩶 Love to see you there! 💛✨️💛

Massive joy to have two poems, 'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' and 'My Sister Glued Jesus' in this forthcoming issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social 🩶 Huge grá to Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin for seeing my work. Stunning cover by photographer Ronan McCall and designer Eimear Gavin.

"...He was post-surgery, morphined up, my sister and I on night shift swabbing his nightmares." This poem confronts its unsettling subject matter on its own, harrowing ground. It chases up the spine & lodges in the heart & mind the way the last five lines of Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" do. Brilliant.

Róisín Leggett Bohan@leggettbohan.bsky.social · last yr.

My poem '04 C 14598' was longlisted for @thepoetrysociety National Poetry Competition from 21,000 entries. I am wholeheartedly grateful to the judges, Stephen Sexton, @romalynante & John McAuliffe ⚡️ This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress

My poem '04 C 14598' was longlisted for @thepoetrysociety National Poetry Competition from 21,000 entries. I am wholeheartedly grateful to the judges, Stephen Sexton, @romalynante & John McAuliffe ⚡️ This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress

I'm taking the train! Thrilled to have one of my poems selected to celebrate Poetry Day. Immense gratitude to @poetryireland.bsky.social 🩶

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

🎉 Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce 12 poems will feature across the Irish Rail network and in libraries nationwide to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland on 1st May 2025. 🌞 Discover the #PoetryDayIRL Poems: www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/d... @irishrail.bsky.social #MayDay #PublicPoetry

We're delighted to nominate Breda Spaight, Patrick Cotter, and David Nash for the Forward Single Poem Prize for their poems published in HOWL 24. Wishing them the best of luck 🍀

I'm thrilled that a poem of mine, published in HOWL New Irish Writing, has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Grateful to HOWL for the nomination, and good luck to us all!

HOWL New Irish Writing@howlwriting.bsky.social · last yr.

We're delighted to nominate Breda Spaight, Patrick Cotter, and David Nash for the Forward Single Poem Prize for their poems published in HOWL 24. Wishing them the best of luck 🍀

A lovely launch for The Stony Thursday Book in Limerick. Huge gratitude to #VictoriaKennefick 🩷 Thank you to #LimerickArts. So nourishing to hear many poetry pals read their work! 🩶

Lovely to share this list with such a plethora of fine poets 🩶

Oh look! A lovely book. Thrilled to be sharing pages with this fine line-up. Huge thanks to @leeannequin.bsky.social and Dedalus press. You can pre-order it here: www.dedaluspress.com/product/begi...