@writefromwithin

A long & short-form poet, I tweet #poetry & #haikai. AKA @maeveos. 7 collections w/Alba. New one = 'Wishing Tree Note': see website for details & sales

 Dublin City, Ireland
maeveosullivan.com
Joined June 2009
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Poetry by the Barrow returns this October with a Thomas Kinsella Special. Featuring rehearsed reading of Thomas Kinsella's "Butchers Dozen" by Playactin Kilkenny, and reading from poet Derval Tubridy. 📅Fri 30 Oct 🕛8:00pm 📍Abbey Lane, Graiguenamanagh poetryireland.ie/news-events…
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The Stinging Fly
@stingingflyOct 1
We are delighted to announce Isla Thomson as the winner of the 2026 @IrishWritersCtr New Writing Prize in partnership with The Stinging Fly ✨️ Isla has won the prize for her short story, ‘Husbands’, which we will publish in our Winter 2026-27 issue in November 🎉 As part of the prize, Isla will receive mentoring with an established writer, selected by the Irish Writers Centre. Read the full announcement stingingfly.org/news/announc…
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Maeve O'Sullivan@writefromwithinJul 1
I was honoured to be asked to select 31 #haiku for this month for The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku of the Day series. The theme I chose for July 2026 = Haiku About Birds, by foremost Irish and British-born or based haiku poets. Enjoy! thehaikufoundation.org/haiku…

Haiku of the Day Theme for July 2026: Haiku About Birds - The Haiku Foundation

Maeve O'Sullivan has curated a selection of Haiku on birds for the July month of Haiku of the Day.

thehaikufoundation.org
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✨Applications are now open for our Introductions/Céadlínte programme 2026! ✨ This programme offers early career poets, writing in English or Irish, an opportunity to showcase work through workshops, performance, and have their work published. Apply: poetryireland.submittable.co…
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Maeve O'Sullivan@writefromwithinJun 22
Here’s the podcast of last night’s Poetry People - Poetry People on RTÉ Radio One. My interview is first up. If you like what you hear, why not order a copy of ‘Wishing Tree Note’ from my website, maeveosullivan.com. 20% of sales go to Dublin Simon dj.rte.ie/radio/radio1/poetr…
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Joseph Fasano
@Joseph_Fasano_Jun 26
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Maeve O'Sullivan@writefromwithinJun 17
Remembering my dear friend of many years, Mamo McDonald, on her fifth anniversary. She was some woman for one woman! Here’s a sonnet I wrote in her memory, which appears in my last collection, ‘Where All Ladders Start’ (2024, Alba Publishing). maeveosullivan.com
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Hifsa Ashraf@hifsaysJun 15
Honoured to review and write a blurb for 'Wishing Tree Note' by Maeve O'Sullivan. A beautiful collection of haiku and senryu—and one that also supports Dublin Simon Community through book sales. Congrats Maeve! Get a copy through Maeve's website. maeveosullivan.com #haiku
Maeve O'Sullivan@writefromwithinJun 9
This Thursday in The Teachers’ Club in #Dublin City. Join us if you’re ’local’ and free. For those who aren’t but would like to check it out, there’s info, endorsements and sample #haiku sequences on my newly-revamped website, maeveosullivan.com. You can also buy a book! 📕
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Poem written by Junior Cert pupil’s mother appears in his English paper irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
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The Moth Magazine@themothmagazineMay 25
❛ That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. Short story writer and poet Raymond Carver, born #OTD in 1938.
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Maeve O'Sullivan@writefromwithinMay 22
After two recent double launches in #Dublin, by west of Ireland publishers Doire Press and Salmon Poetry, my #poetry reading for the next while is sorted! 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
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Maeve O'Sullivan@writefromwithinMay 17
I enjoyed leading a sold-out #haiku #workshop this afternoon @ILFDublin. I had a lovely group and we were lucky with the timing of our ginko (walk) around Merrion Square, i.e, in between showers!
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We are thrilled to have officially opened No. 11 Parnell Square, Ireland's Home for Poetry and Heritage, along with @IrHeritageTrust 🎉🍾 We look forward to welcoming you to our home for events over the coming months, and to The Seamus Heaney Poetry Library in the Autumn.
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✉️Submissions for Poetry Ireland Review Issue 149, edited by Colm Tóibín, are now open! Poetry Ireland Review has now moved to the Duosuma submissions platform for online submissions. 🔗Details: poetryireland.ie/poets/submi…
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Morgan Wright 💎
@byMorganWrightMay 3
Painfully relatable💀😅🤣
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Cian McCarthy@arealmofwonderApr 28
"I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke The Green Door, Brittany 🎨 Raymond Wintz
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We remember Eavan Boland on this her six year anniversary of her passing. Here is her poem 'Night Feed,' published in the second edition of Poetry Ireland Review, edited by John Jordan. Image used is 'Painting of her Daughter Eavan Boland as a Young Girl' by Frances Kelly.
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phillip crymble@phillipcrymbleApr 26
Fifty years ago today, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" was published in the pages of @NewYorker. What a poem!
ONE ART The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. --ELIZABETH BISHOP

ALT ONE ART The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. --ELIZABETH BISHOP

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Basho Society
@BashoSocietyApr 25
blossoms scatter still the journey goes on Basho
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Historical Africa
@historical_AfrApr 24
A street artist draws a work of art: "the invisibility of poverty." A masterpiece. The artist’s name is Kevin Lee!
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