Wonderful to listen to Jane Clarke & Abigail Parry read from their T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Bloodaxe Books collections at the Newcastle Poetry Festival this evening. Looking forward to more events tomorrow too!

Gorgeous sunshine in Newcastle today for the poetry festival!

As part of Zeitgeist 24, 3 award-winning Irish poets will read at Curious Fox.
Join Jessica Traynor, Seán Hewitt & Stephen Sexton for an evening of poetry on desire, identity, place, memory, love and loss. 08.06, 8pm Free entry.
Supported by Ireland Embassy Berlin and Culture_Ireland

On my way to Newcastle Poetry Festival - such a good lineup of poets considering essential themes. I’ll be reading w Abigail Parry tomorrow T. S. Eliot Prize Bloodaxe Books

Poetry Press! Can you help us spread the word about Newcastle Poetry Festival next week, including the International Poetry Symposium featuring 20 world class poets at Northern Stage 9th-10th May > poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/northern…

The TLS Graeme Richardson Tristram Fane Saunders Jeremy Noel-Tod

Jane Clarke Phil Robson Roscommon County Council What a great art piece! I love the poem. My grandmother divined with a hazel twig and opened all the wells on farms in the area. I did it recently, with bent metal rods, to keep a digger driver away from very close underground water pipes. Not quite the same ring about it. 😄

The joy of having a poem with music by Phil Robson (linked by QR code) in a light box on the newly established poetry laneway in Roscommon town. Thanks to Roscommon County Council Rhona McGrath (arts officer) and Dani Gill (poet & curator).

Up with the lark to film this with Niall from BirdWatch Ireland
Good for the soul… but worrying observations about how climate change is impacting the #DawnChorus

A grey morning on the banks of the Shannon but wonderful atmosphere at Strokestown Poetry Festival. Come and join us - ⁦Mary O'Donnell⁩ and I will be reading tonight at 7.30. ⁦Dedalus Press⁩ ⁦Salmon Poetry⁩ ⁦Bloodaxe Books⁩

Very much looking forward to hearing Jane Clarke & Abigail Parry read at Newcastle Poetry Festival on 9 May.

An in-depth interview with Bloodaxe Books' founding editor #NeilAstley is featured in the Spring issue of Beshara Magazine. Neil was speaking about his new anthology #SoulFeast , co-edited with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, as well as his #StayingAlive series.
besharamagazine.org/arts-literatur…

🤓We’re very excited for our T. S. Eliot Prize reading with Abigail Parry & Jane Clarke Bloodaxe Books on Thurs 9 May, 6.30pm Northern Stage #NPFP24

Tickets here newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk 🎫

New collections from Geraldine Mitchell & Ted Deppe Alan Hayes : Arlen House. Looking forward to introducing their fabulous work Books Upstairs 19 May 1pm. All welcome.

The public library service in Ireland invaluable. I'd read about Nora Hoult recently (thank you Sinéad Gleeson) and was able to order this from Dublin City Libraries to collect in my local library - last borrowed in 1969. It's so important for books to be kept in circulation. 🙏

Such a wealth of new poetry in the latest Poetry Ireland Review edited by Mary O'Donnell and a beautiful cover from Geraldine O'Reilly.

In a dream Jessica Traynor sees Dublin's Blessington Street Basin fill with the Liffey's stout-bottle waters. To find out what happens next, listen here: youtu.be/vS-W-viz7-4?si… #LiffeySwim #PoetryDayIRL #GoodSports

#PoetryDayIRL Thrilled to see my poem 'Winter Heroes' & the other 11 poems selected for the day's theme of Good Sports on display in my local Lexicon #DLRLibrary , hence the rather manic grin. Thanks DLR LIbrary also for hosting our lovely reading in memory of Eavan Boland tonight

New collections from Geraldine Mitchell and Ger Reidy. I'll be introducing Naming Love at the Books Upstairs launch on Sunday 19 May at 1pm.

Lovely to see my books in the good company of Anja Murray Pádraic Fogarty & Niall Mac Coitir. Thanks rosamund & Killruddery!

Listen in to Poetry People on Sunday Evening, just after 7 on RTE Radio 1!