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marginal poetries: experimental, formally hybrid, intercultural, in translation and recovered work machapress.com. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and The National Lottery through The Arts Council of Northern Ireland

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Book Launch: morsels - Dublin Book Festival Susanna Galbraith’s debut collection, morsels (Macha Press) is a formally ambitious multi-sequence debut collection. The title series ‘morsels’ explores the ways language and its absences shape our re...

We are delighted to announce that Susanna Galbraith's MORSELS will be launched in Dublin @gutterbookshop.bsky.social
as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

Tickets available at: dublinbookfestival.com/event/morsel...

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou

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Our Susanna is in the news...

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NI poets discuss expression through the form and why it still entrances: ‘I don’t write these things willingly, I have to do it’ “I think it was in the air in some ways,” says Paul Muldoon, when asked about where his love for poetry comes from.

Macha's Susanna Galbraith
in this weekend's @belfasttelegraph.co.uk: 'I’d be a big believer that nobody is writing on their own.'

photo credit, Susanna Galbraith: @jos.mcgookin

@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/feature...

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catflap #5 Launch - Outburst Arts The hottest publication in queer lit is back, as we launch the fifth edition of catflap, Outburst’s annual journal of smart queer writing with a disco heart! Distributed globally and featuring local a...

Book your tickets here: outburstarts.com/festival/cat...

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Don't miss Confluences and Collaborations at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Wednesday October 29th at 6pm:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confluence...

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou and @LottoGoodCauses & #BelfastCityCouncil #FundedBelfastCCSupported

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Sam Furlong reads as part of this year's Outburst Festival catflap 5 launch with CAConrad & invited guests:

Saturday 15 November, 8:00 pm, Black Box Belfast, tickets 10 / 5 concession, 16 with catflap copy

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Macha’s Sam Furlong & Eilish Martin at last week’s Clifden Arts Festival. Many thanks to Lorna Shaughnessy for the candid snapshots

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Writing the Body - Dublin Book Festival Joining our panel are poet and essayist Gustav Parker Hibbett whose debut collection High Jump as Icarus Story won the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Sam Furlong whose just-p...

Joining this knockout panel as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
are @gphibbett.bsky.social, Sam Furlong & Sophie White, in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social.

Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...

#DBF25

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Macha Press Presents: Sam Furlong and Eilish Martin - Clifden Arts Festival Eilish Martin is a poet and artist with two published collections: ‘Slitting the Tongues of Jackdaws (1999)’ and ‘Ups Bounce Dash (2008)’. Her work features widely in national and international...

This is tomorrow! Thank you Clifden Arts Festival.

clifdenartsfestival.ie/event/macha-...

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@julianmanev @kathleenmccracken44 with Eilish Martin & Kathryn White at last night's panel Confluences & Collaborations @belfastschoolofart - what a night!

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Confluences & Collaborations: Eilish Martin with Macha Press This free event will feature poet & artist Eilish Martin alongside designer Julian Manev and Macha Press Editor Kathleen McCracken.

This event is tonight! 7pm! At Ulster University in the Conor Lecture Theatre.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confluence...

Book your ticket and come along!

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Free, all very welcome: booking advisable via Eventbrite

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confluence...

Tickets still available!

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Free, all very welcome: booking advisable via Eventbrite

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confluence...

Tickets still available!

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We are so excited to be part of the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social

Dublin launch of Susanna Galbraith's morsels:
dublinbookfestival.com/event/morsel...

Sam Furlong on a panel "Writing the Body":
dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...

Check out this amazing programme and Dublin, see you soon!

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An invitation/poster with the Macha press logo re event in Belfast, Conor Lecture Theatre, UU York St 18.09 7pm where poets Eilish Martin and Kathleen McCracken will discuss dynamic verbal-visual forays with designer Julian Manev.

An invitation/poster with the Macha press logo re event in Belfast, Conor Lecture Theatre, UU York St 18.09 7pm where poets Eilish Martin and Kathleen McCracken will discuss dynamic verbal-visual forays with designer Julian Manev.

Confluences and Collaborations - event Sept 18th - and don't we need more of it! @machapress.bsky.social

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#ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou and @LottoGoodCauses & #BelfastCityCouncil #FundedBelfastCCSupported

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Another candid incidental from design meeting for @susannagalbraith’s MORSELS, with @julianmanev & @kathleenmccracken44. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve cooked up together!

MORSELS is now available for preorder as part of our Macha Year Two Subscription

www.machapress.com/subscription...

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Free, all very welcome: booking advisable via eventbrite

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confluence...

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News and Events — Macha Press

Check out the upcoming events for Macha Press on the calendar on our website!

www.machapress.com/new-page

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A sneak peak of more design work from Julian Manev... coming soon for Susanna Galbraith's morsels, her debut poetry collection!

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery & #BelfastCityCouncil #FundedBelfastCCSupported

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Susanna Galbraith's debut collection MORSELS is now available for preorder as part of our Year Two Subscription package available at machapress.com. Yet again, Julian Manev thrills with sublime cover design!

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery & #BelfastCityCouncil #FundedBelfastCCSupported

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Another reminder to mark your calendars for September 23rd and the Clifton Arts Festival. We're getting excited!

Tickets here: clifdenartsfestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Eilish Martin and Sam Furlong reading together on 23 September 2025 as part of the Clifton Arts Festival. Don't miss it!

clifdenartsfestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Another dynamic display of books @bsoa_artshop featuring CROWD WORK by @godblessthechickpea and ! ALL'ARME / ? AND WHAT... IF NOT by Eilish Martin.

Support our local retailers and stop by to pick up a copy today!

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Macha Press Presents: Sam Furlong and Eilish Martin

Clifden Arts Festival 2025
23 September 2025
15:00, 23 September 2025
Omey Suite, Station House Hotel
€10, all welcome!

clifdenartsfestival.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Gorgeous display of poetry in No Alibis bookstore in Belfast featuring Crowd Work by Sam Furlong. Shop local!

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The title series ‘morsels’ explores the ways language and its absences shape our relationships with one another, with natural environments, and with human and animal bodies.

morsels by Susanna Galbraith from Macha Press, coming soon!

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What a gift to have papercuts by the extraordinary @sophieherx to adorn each one of our book projects - Books 1 & 2 continue to be available as individual purchases and also as part of our year one subscription bundle

www.machapress.com/subscription...

photo credit @jos.mcgookin

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morsels is a formally ambitious multi-sequence debut collection from Belfast poet Susanna Galbraith...coming October 2025!

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