Michael Dooley
@michaeldooley.bsky.social
poems, mostly in Irish lit journals | trout and salmon, mostly still in the river | best efforts and tangents, the classroom Limerick, Ireland https://www.doirepress.com/books/poetry/in-spring-we-turned-to-water https://michaeldooleypoetry.com/about/
Warmest congratulations to my pal, the incomparable @deanbrowne.bsky.social. His is a collection like no other, and it's sublime to see it reach these magnificent and deserved heights. A book of singular imaginative vision and craft - long may After Party reign.
Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 3mo ago🌟Congratulations to Dean Browne, the winner of the €20,000 Pigott Poetry Prize 2026! 🌟 @poetryireland.bsky.social #poetrydayireland booksirelandmagazine.com/deane-browne...
My thanks to Malcolm Carson for his review of In Spring We Turned to Water, currently featured on The High Window. thehighwindowpress.com/category/rev...
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Lots of photos from last year's Circling The Square, including Rosie Lavan and Bernard O'Donoghue, talking to Declan O'Driscoll, @eleanorhooker.bsky.social, @janeclarke.bsky.social and @michaeldooley.bsky.social
Great to see the tour de force that is After Party by @deanbrowne.bsky.social in today's Sunday Times.
I was sorry to have missed the launch of the brilliant @bansheepress.bsky.social tonight. What they've given us in a decade!
So looking forward to taking part in Circling The Square next week, a festival in honour of the great Dennis O'Driscoll.
Circling The Square@circlingpoetry.bsky.social · 10mo ago@michaeldooley.bsky.social , author of the exceptional debut collection, 'In Spring We Turned to Water', published by @doirepress.bsky.social, will read at next weekend's Circling The Square. Details of the festival and booking options here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Just a week to go to this year's Circling The Square. Tickets and information available here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Very grateful to Jessica to have a poem amongst such company.
Jess Traynor@jesstraynor.bsky.social · 10mo agoIntroducing Banshee 20 poets! We're delighted to be featuring work by @colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
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Here's a little taster from New Arcana! Big thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for featuring a reading of my poem 'and the girl inside me' 🔮✨️
Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 11mo ago🌟Jessica Traynor reads from her forthcoming collection New Arcana (Bloodaxe Books) over on Books Ireland today!🌟 booksirelandmagazine.com/jessica-tray... 🔥New Arcana launches 02 October @gutterbookshop.bsky.social 🔥 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
Tidal by karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social is out now! Order here -> www.doirepress.com/books/poetry... #poem #literature #Irish #feminism #poetry
I'm so grateful to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for this generous review of In Spring We Turned to Water in Poetry Ireland Review 146. Míle Buíochas, @doirepress.bsky.social, @poetryireland.bsky.social
A tremendous collection of work being publisher this month.
Dean Browne@deanbrowne.bsky.social · 11mo agolovely notice for After Party here in The Telegraph!
Grateful for this.
Doire Press@doirepress.bsky.social · 11mo ago'These poems exhort us to imagine the acts we're capable of, alongside great love - not only as individuals, but as communities.' Big thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for her stellar review of IN SPRING WE TURNED TO WATER by @michaeldooley.bsky.social in Poetry Ireland Review
Grateful for this opportunity to read at Circling the Square festival in Thurles, 01 Nov. Looking forward to beginning with a favourite Dennis O' Driscoll poem, too.
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann@poetryireland.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe 4th annual Circling the Square Festival comes back to The Source Arts Centre! ⌚31 October - 2 November 🎭The Source Arts Centre, Thurles 💷Tickets: €14.00-€17.50 💸Book your tickets here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/cir...
"Somewhere in France", Michael Hartnett. PIR 14, Autumn 1985
'McKenna speckles the collection with many surprising images, some contrasting nut this reader trusts that each one is placed into the poems as deliberately as the thief acquiring her collection of keys.' Review of FOUR THOUSAND KEYS by @lindamckenna.bsky.social in the new issue of Skylight 47
'... a book filled with outstanding poems. Horgan gives voice to a range of characters and concerns not often seen in Irish literature.' Big thanks to Seán Kelly at the @irishexaminer.bsky.social for this stellar review of CARE by @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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