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Michael Dooley

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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/

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Reviews โ€“ The High Window Posts about Reviews written by The High Window Review

My thanks to Malcolm Carson for his review of In Spring We Turned to Water, currently featured on The High Window.

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24.02.2026 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you, Vincent.

24.02.2026 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gabrielle Bates

23.02.2026 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

09.01.2026 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Daragh Hoey

21.12.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cora Brooks, Ploughshares Vol. 3 No. 3&4, 1977

13.12.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Molly Twomey

11.12.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Great to see the tour de force that is After Party by @deanbrowne.bsky.social in today's Sunday Times.

30.11.2025 13:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jessica Traynor

19.11.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dean Browne

03.11.2025 09:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I was sorry to have missed the launch of the brilliant @bansheepress.bsky.social tonight. What they've given us in a decade!

30.10.2025 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Spencer Reece

29.10.2025 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So looking forward to taking part in Circling The Square next week, a festival in honour of the great Dennis O'Driscoll.

27.10.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just a week to go to this year's Circling The Square.
Tickets and information available here:
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...

23.10.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Very grateful to Jessica to have a poem amongst such company.

23.10.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 โ€” Banshee Press Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally

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 โœจ

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19.10.2025 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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' ๐Ÿ”ฎโœจ๏ธ

24.09.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Tidal by karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social is out now!

Order here -> www.doirepress.com/books/poetry...

#poem #literature #Irish #feminism #poetry

20.09.2025 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm so grateful to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for this generous review of In Spring We Turned to Water in Poetry Ireland Review 146. Mรญle Buรญochas, @doirepress.bsky.social, @poetryireland.bsky.social

20.09.2025 08:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A tremendous collection of work being publisher this month.

14.09.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grateful for this.

11.09.2025 20:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

10.09.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Somewhere in France", Michael Hartnett. PIR 14, Autumn 1985

29.08.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'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

30.06.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

'... 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 Seรกn Kelly at the @irishexaminer.bsky.social for this stellar review of CARE by @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

28.06.2025 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chasing silver in Galway

29.06.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Karen Solie

27.06.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In Spring We Turned to Water In Spring We Turned to Water is the first full-length cโ€ฆ

If you happen to have read the little book, please consider leaving a rating/review here

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19.06.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Excited to read today's book post

10.06.2025 12:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much, Rรณisรญn!

06.06.2025 06:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0