For Belfast International Arts Festival #PoetryJukebox #Quotidian presents AMBIGUITIES - 20 contemporary poets present new poems projecting 100 years into the future. Stop a while at Crescent Arts Centre or listen Online at soundcloud.com/user-815416158…

What an achievement! And check out Ambiguities:imagining futures Crescent Arts Centre Thurs 13th, 7.30pm, free reading Belfast International Arts Festival Maria McManus 🇪🇺

You know it took me 25 years to win a major award, but in all that time I had a sense of improvement. You become an artist because you love art, you become a good artist by the work you put in over time. I was literally invisible for the first ten years of my practice.
#art #work

I am no stranger to reorientation:
in the bigger world,
it is only two days since I left your house.
Already, there has been so much news.

Tapestry (after #StardewValley ) by Dr. Alicia Byrne Keane, from Romance Options: Love Poems for Today,
published October 10th by Dedalus Press ❤️💫

National Poetry Day Join us tomorrow for National Poetry Day UK 2022 with poets Mel McMahon and Grainne Tobin who will read from their work, Robinson Library Armagh, 7.30pm, in association with City Chapter Armagh #free #donationswelcome

#BIAF22 Quotidian brings you a newly commissioned poem by Nick Laird, The Vocation in conversation w/ Nessa O'Mahony. Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland Poetry Ireland Centre Culturel Irlandais youtu.be/S6WEI20Wztc

#BIAF22 Quotidian brings you a newly commissioned poem by Sinead Morrissey, What Pa Saw, in conversation w/ Nessa O'Mahony. Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland Poetry Ireland Centre Culturel Irlandais youtube.com/watch?v=iFExly…

I'm humbled to see my poem, 'The House, Thoor Ballylee' alongside this photo of the great man.Thanks to Gill Stoker ed. at the Mary Evans Library Poetry Blog.
Dedalus Press RTÉ Poetry Programme Lucy Collins Ted Smyth Nessa O'Mahony Poetry Ireland Munster Literature Centre
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of our 2022 International Poetry Competition with Head Judge Seán Hewitt! ⁠Head to causleytrust.org/competition-20… for all details.⁠
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Image: Stuart Simpson

You could make that lake in bronze as a body
with a hand outstretched and it would not be sad.

“Out of the Dazzle” by Cherry Smyth, from Romance Options: An Anthology of Love Poems for Today, published October 10th by Dedalus Press.

Preorder here: dedaluspress.com/product/romanc…

Belfast International Arts Festival Join the FREE Launch Event of AMBIGUITIES #PoetryJukebox 13th Oct at 7.30pm at Crescent Arts Centre. No booking required! Poets include Gerald Dawe @McKennaLinda, Nandi Jola Mel McMahon @Sleighforsummer #CharlesLang @Emily_S_Coope @poetrysiobhan belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/event/ambiguit…

Submissions are also open for chapbook manuscripts, to be published in Fall 2023. Send us your best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction projects now until March 1, 2023.

The Hopkins Review is now OPEN FOR poetry/fiction/nonfiction SUBMISSIONS throughout October, and we’re ready to read your work!

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Can't wait for this session tomorrow with Maria McManus 🇪🇺 Rosemary Hennigan at the Bray Lit Fest on Writers Responding to Conflict. Tomorrow, 11am @ Bray Library. Grab a cuppa & join us for some open discussions on a topic(s) that challenges all of us #BLF
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AMBIGUITIES @poetryjukebox #Quotidian🙌 reviewed by The River Mill Belfast International Arts Festival 13 October Crescent Arts Centre with readings including Siobhan Campbell Gerald Dawe linda mckenna Mel McMahon Emily Cooper Nandi Jola #CharlesLang - future in 100 years. With Centre Culturel Irlandais Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Yes, it is really striking work!

Yes, it is an extraordinary essay!