S.C. Flynn
@scyflynn.bsky.social
Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025). https://scflynn.com
Published in @thebelfastreview.bsky.social: 1/3 FACT-CHECK The outside world was once so far away, but now my screens are full of wounded life, as if towns on maps cry out and bleed while brightly painted robots dance to the pounding beat of history.... #poetry thebelfastreview.wixsite.com/home
The latest issue of @thebelfastreview.bsky.social is here! I am pleased to be included #poetry
The Belfast Review@thebelfastreview.bsky.social · 6d agoIt’s time to shout about it - Issue 6 is here! Print & digital issues on our website. More prose, more poetry, essays and more - from writers in Northern Ireland and beyond 🍀💚🍀
If I was going to start a faith-based AI company I would have called it "Machina Ex Deus".
Emoji Caresser@lizrummy.bsky.social · 2w agoFaith-based AI company Gloo
"each world drinking the shadow of the other" @scyflynn.bsky.social writing lovely things (or somehow magically channeling the work I've been translating lately)
S.C. Flynn@scyflynn.bsky.social · 2w agoThreshold The homesickness you felt when still at home is disappearing from the outside in and from the inside out, each world drinking the shadow of the other. Enchanted nihilism, misplaced sincerity; the night of their eyelids falls across you. 1/2 www.newfeathersanthology.com/threshold.ht...
Threshold The homesickness you felt when still at home is disappearing from the outside in and from the inside out, each world drinking the shadow of the other. Enchanted nihilism, misplaced sincerity; the night of their eyelids falls across you. 1/2 www.newfeathersanthology.com/threshold.ht...
Threshold The homesickness you felt when still at home is disappearing from the outside in and from the inside out, each world drinking the shadow of the other. Enchanted nihilism, misplaced sincerity; the night of their eyelids falls across you. The hour when the house forgets your name; a little…
Threshold
The homesickness you felt when still at home is disappearing from the outside in and from the inside out, each world drinking the shadow of the other. Enchanted nihilism, misplaced sincerity; the night of their eyelids falls across you. The hour when the house forgets your name; a little shiver trembles through the dark. Published in New Feathers Anthology
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You're so vane you probably think this weather is for you.
"I make runs that look pointless but I am creating space" will be the gist of all my future work appraisals.
Nick Ames@nickames82.bsky.social · last mo.Interview with Kai Havertz on being misunderstood, a more joyful German World Cup camp, initial misgivings over Arsenal trophy parade - and those “hydration breaks”. Lots of ground covered, piece (in collaboration with Die Zeit) here: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
the good news is that science is working hard on a solution to the UK's political problems
You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.
Four poems for sad people published in Synchronised Chaos scflynn.com/2026/05/31/f... #poetry #depression
Four Poems
GREEN AND YELLOW Without those colourful floating pills you sink – bones dropped by a chemical vulture – to shatter on the rocks of a dead planet. The pieces of you left intact then wander thr…
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hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*
As promised, here's "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion:"
Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion - Flux
Senescence makes people believe silly things, so does bad science
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All this dosh from Thailand...blimey, might start calling Nige Baht Simpson
Very much looking forward to June 17th in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social in Dublin. Tell your (Dublin or Dublin-adjacent) friends. Deepest thanks to @junec.bsky.social and @davidcollard.bsky.social for helping me with this. And many thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Strokestown poetry prize shortlist revealed
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
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Just published in A Thin Slice of Anxiety: The Death of the Future scflynn.com/2026/03/16/t... #poetry
The Death of the Future
My chatbot friend never remembers the last talk we had and waits for me in its black, odourless cold, looking out the window at a different past, thinking incisively about nothing until we s…
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In May 2024 a Yellow-crowned Night Heron was discovered in western Ireland village of Belcarra, 1000s of stormy transatlantic 🌊 miles from its American home. Named Lorrie in honour of its local discoverer, Lorraine Ryan-Jennings, it inspired tourists, art and poetry 1/3 🧵
Holly Grogan@hollygroganart.bsky.social · 5mo agoPortrait of the Belcarra Yellow-crowned Night Heron. Pastel Pencils & PanPastels on Pastelmat
Its very own poem... 2/3 bsky.app/profile/scyf...
S.C. Flynn@scyflynn.bsky.social · 2y agoFrom this evening's launch of the An Aitiuil anthology at Notre Dame University in Dublin. The story of a bird - the first of its species ever seen here - carried by a storm from North America to Ireland @everyheron.bsky.social #poetry #birds #heron #ireland
Wonderful. 💙💙 We know a poem about that Heron bsky.app/profile/scyf... @scyflynn.bsky.social
S.C. Flynn@scyflynn.bsky.social · 2y agoFrom this evening's launch of the An Aitiuil anthology at Notre Dame University in Dublin. The story of a bird - the first of its species ever seen here - carried by a storm from North America to Ireland @everyheron.bsky.social #poetry #birds #heron #ireland
I’m very glad that Best Son is having a great ski day, but this very loud, stuffy, and overcrowded ski lodge is grating and the horrendous cover band is causing my brain to shrivel. In short, I’m having a hard time entertaining myself … Ask me odd questions?
Ian Janssen@ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 6mo agoTook Best Son skiing in the Poconos today. I do not ski. Maybe select less dense reading material next time I’m sitting in a very noisy ski lodge?
Eating so much meat and dairy that my nutrition app tells me to go lite with some whiskey, neat
🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is probably ok
Plausibly Blue Australian Antarctic Territory, midsummer Under the frozen anaemia of summer,the still air smells like dry gods melting.The iceberg hides its whiteness in this blue,hoarding the red light like dragon’s jewelsand letting go the violet rays;if it could hold those fast as well,the…
Plausibly Blue
Australian Antarctic Territory, midsummer Under the frozen anaemia of summer,the still air smells like dry gods melting.The iceberg hides its whiteness in this blue,hoarding the red light like dragon’s jewelsand letting go the violet rays;if it could hold those fast as well,the mountain would drift by like a black hole,sucking in the light and giving nothing back…
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