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Liam Carson

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Author of memoir Call Mother a Lonely Field. Haiku poet (first collection Belfast Twilight just published by Salmon Poetry). Director of IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge/Irish-language Literature Festival.

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GOA!

04.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The fact that we all wake up each day knowing Israel will have slaughtered another hundred Palestinians by nightfall is a searing indictment of every western government, and of their failure to stop genocide.

03.08.2025 17:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Only saw this now - thanks, John!

03.08.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jesus wept...

02.08.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jesus fucking wept....

01.08.2025 22:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I truly hate it, it's pure shite - flush it down the toilet.

01.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

An overseas dependency of the People's Republic of Cork?

01.08.2025 22:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Poetry book booty from Kenny's Bookshop in Galway today.

01.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spotted you in Kenny's Bookshop, Galway, today...

01.08.2025 21:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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lanúin ar lorg
an tobar beannaithe
caillte sa cheo

01.08.2025 21:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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cré na cille
faoi scáth na gcrann
titeann duilleoga

01.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

gort i gConamara
fothrach tí
nár tógadh

01.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Charlie Byrne's Bookshop, Galway.

01.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Le mo chara Pádraic Ó Conaire, cathair na Gaillimhe inniu.

01.08.2025 21:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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i measc na mbláth
i reilig na Trá Báine -
dordán na mbeach

01.08.2025 21:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Conamara twilight
in a dark field
a bonfire blazes

Conamara twilight
in a roadside caravan
a television flickers

Conamara twilight
telegraph wires stretching
into darkness

twilight
the gray stones of Conamara
fill with darkness

01.08.2025 21:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Tories have gone full MAGA.

24.07.2025 21:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Utterly shameful.

23.07.2025 22:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And in case you don't know about this book, lovely novel about Clare (I did the PR on it years ago)...https://www.writing.ie/interviews/john-mckenna-on-poet-john-clare/

23.07.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hyena! (Shortlisted, TS Eliot Prize 2023) Fran Lock(The Poetry Bus, 2023); pbk, £8.50 ‘This human form where I was born, I now repent’. This quote from Pixies ‘Caribou’ sets the tone…

Here it is, it's a marvellous collection...

23.07.2025 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Gaza. Words fail.

23.07.2025 17:16 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Beneath western democracy lies hypocrisy and lip service to human rights. The horror, the horror.

23.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Saw the trailer for the film, which looked pretty awful, alas.

21.07.2025 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Poem by Fran Lock, gorgeous tribute to John Clare.

20.07.2025 15:41 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 7    📌 0
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Some recent gems in Irish and English from my bookshelf! 📚✍️✨
@liamcarson.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social @daraghfleming.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social @eabhloid.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

19.07.2025 16:34 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Buíochas ó chroí!

19.07.2025 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Poem by Jen Hadfield.

19.07.2025 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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By Masaoka Shiki, translated by Abby Ryder-Huth.

18.07.2025 16:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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By Masaoka Shiki. Translation by Abby Ryder-Huth.

18.07.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do you know if the Irish government/Department of Foreign Affairs tried to intervene in any way? This is profoundly disturbing.

15.07.2025 21:19 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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