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' ๐ฎโจ๏ธ
24.09.2025 08:27 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1@michaeldooley.bsky.social
poems, mostly in Irish lit journals | trout and salmon, mostly still in the river | best efforts and tangents, the classroom https://www.doirepress.com/books/poetry/in-spring-we-turned-to-water https://michaeldooleypoetry.com/about/
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' ๐ฎโจ๏ธ
24.09.2025 08:27 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Tidal by karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social is out now!
Order here -> www.doirepress.com/books/poetry...
#poem #literature #Irish #feminism #poetry
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 ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1A tremendous collection of work being publisher this month.
14.09.2025 14:08 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Grateful for this.
11.09.2025 20:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Grateful 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 ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Somewhere in France", Michael Hartnett. PIR 14, Autumn 1985
29.08.2025 15:44 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0'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
'... 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
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Chasing silver in Galway
29.06.2025 16:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Karen Solie
27.06.2025 17:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you happen to have read the little book, please consider leaving a rating/review here
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Excited to read today's book post
10.06.2025 12:42 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you so much, Rรณisรญn!
06.06.2025 06:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you, Damien. That means so much.
06.06.2025 06:29 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy, grateful, lucky, happy, to have a poetry pamphlet forthcoming with the brilliant Green Bottle Press.
Launch in London, Friday 27th June, 7.30pm at the Arts Workers Guild (free wine).
Dublin launch TBD!
Blanca Varela, trans. Liana Kapelke-Dale
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Really looking forward to this reading next week with Niamh McNally as part of Mountshannon Arts Festival - Saturday 31 May @ 3pm.
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had the most wonderful event with Jennifer and Dean at the Cork International Poetry festival. Grateful to Patrick and all at @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
19.05.2025 22:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0How to open a collection of poems. From Love Prodigal, by Traci Brimhall
18.05.2025 19:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A fantastic start to this years Cork International Poetry Festival yesterday. Lots more to come today. All programme details: www.munsterlit.ie #corkevents #corkpoetryfest #corkcitylibrary
15.05.2025 10:12 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you so much.
11.05.2025 07:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you, Karen!
11.05.2025 07:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks so much, Jackie.
11.05.2025 07:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you, Breda.
11.05.2025 07:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks so much, Gerard.
10.05.2025 19:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An honour to have co-won the Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award with the magnificent Parker Hibbett. My thanks to the judges, to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social, and to J&L @doirepress.bsky.social. Warmest congratulations to Victoria on winning the Farmgate.
www.corkpoetryfest.net/awards.html
Looking forward to reading alongside Niamh McNally at Mountshannon Arts Festival.
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Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! ๐๐งก
Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.'
@gphibbett.bsky.social
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