While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: birdwatchireland.ie/our-work/adv...

Interesting. I'm a bit sceptical about the persistence of the 'Irish literary tradition'...if it's alive, it must be transforming itself. Celan took french symbolism into the post-war 20th century, maybe we should be looking to take the `irish tradition' into the 21st—where nothing is clear.

I struggle with this too, Róisín. Is it a question of how far to open the door? I think established poets get away with a lot more obscurity! But I do enjoy poetry and writing that makes me work for a personal response. I'm happy to "dwell in possibility" with the little universes that poets make.

Edmund de Waal: “The Ragpicker's Way” The writer and potter on archives as places of memory, instability, and trespass—from porcelain shards to a derelict house in London.

“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.”

Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...

Adolescence is excellent drama as well as important. Can't recommend it highly enough.

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: Round of 32 Assholes Welcome to the second round of Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature. After a vigorous first round of voting, 32 villains advance and 32 have…

32 iconic villains await your judgement! Cast your vote to help your favorite advance in the second round of our bracket–you might help crown them the Best Villain in Literature.

delighted my photo archive/research project is now live on Wexford County Archive website wexfordcountyarchive.com/the-gus-hand...

thank you, Sonya 🙏

wow, fabulous poem.

Oh, Joy! My pamphlet "Two Level Crossings Past Kilcaven" has been shortlisted in the wonderful Emma Press 2024 Open Call. Shout-out to @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social, the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social National Mentoring Programme and DLR Arts/Lexicon for assistance completing these poems. Woohooooo!

It doesn't get much better than this. It's such a thrill to be on this shortlist...thank you, Emma Press, and congratulations to all the other longlisted and shortlisted writers!

ar fheabhas!

This is fabulous 📚💙

great cover art @roisinnorton.bsky.social !!!

New Course March 2025: Writing The Troubles at Irish Writers Centre Online

Fiona O'Rourke writes brilliantly about the Northern Ireland "troubles" and she is also a really engaging communicator. This looks like a very worthwhile course...

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

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Borrowed this from the library and can hardly bear to return it...