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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
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A deserving winner of this award: one of my favourite poets! 👌🏻
✨ Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann and The New Hibernia Review present The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award Reading at Dublin Book Festival with this year’s Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Awardee Mark Roper. ✨
📅Thurs 5th Nov
🕛7:30pm
📍Poetry Ireland
🎫 €8
🔗eventbrite.ie/e/lawrence-osh…
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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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How lovely to not only be able to enjoy a bar of chocolate, but also to have a Shakespeare #sonnet to read afterwards! Fair play to #Chocolove ❤️
Lovely to read my ‘Memorial Gardens’ #haiku sequence (from my new collection ‘Wishing Tree Note’) ‘in situ’ yesterday, at the annual Francis Ledwidge Day, organised by Liam O’Meara & to hear other’s poems & songs. Here’s Ledwidge’s poem ‘August’, which Anúna adapted in the 1990s
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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…
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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…
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…