So delighted to share this poem now after Parker’s High Jump as Icarus Story was a PoetryBookSoc Book of the Week. Given the news cycle this week these poems of sport (& who gets to access it), joy & transcendence feel more urgent than ever 🧡💛

ATTN: Editors! The Best of the Net Anthology is now open for nominations for our 2025 edition! Nominations are due by September 30th. bestofthenetanthology.com/submissions/

Love the gorgeous cover for These Mortal Bodies by Elspeth Wilson, coming in July 2025 from Simon & Schuster UK 🥰 🐦‍⬛✨”I’m ready to be part of something bigger, I told myself, whispering the words over and over, visualizing myself at the centre of things, never alone again.” ✨🐦‍⬛

Open now for Irish anywhere/People of any nationality living on the island of Ireland.

We're looking ahead to September and October. Join us for some lovely book events!

Great submission opportunity here!

Mícheál McCann is the editor of PIR #143. He has poems published in The Poetry Society, The Stinging Fly & anthologised in Queering the Green Lifeboat to name a few. His 1st collection Devotion The Gallery Press was published in May & He is the Publishing Fellow at Seamus Heaney Centre.

⭐ SUBMISSIONS are OPEN ⭐ You have until Tues 20 August (23.59PM) to send us: ✨ Poetry pamphlets ✨ Novellas (max 30,000) ✨ Essay Collections ✨ Children's Poetry (8+) ✨ Children's Fiction (8+) Let us know your questions in reply to this thread! buff.ly/33ZO731

One day left to send us your work! Submissions Close at midnight tomorrow. Poetry Ireland Munster Literature Centre writing.ie Irish Writers Centre Irish PEN

📢Calling for writers and artists (Yes, we pay!) Send us your most visceral and resonant poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and art on any theme for Room 48.2! Submissions will be read on a rolling basis. Happy submitting 💫 roommagazine.com/whats-new/call…

Coast to Coast to Coast-OPEN ... join poets s/as Sarah Mnatzaganian Rachel Spence Ben McGuire Josephine Corcoran Clare Best Maria McManus, Stephen Keeler karen izod Maureen Boyle John Glenday [Erika Glenday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇨🇭🇮🇹] jane lovell Lydia Harris: poems stitched in handmade covers I lookfward to reading

We're delighted to be taking part in Culture Night 2024 at Greystones Library, Wicklow with this beautiful poetry reading featuring Viviana Fiorentino, Sean Boradale & Jane Clarke details 👇🏼 culturenight.ie/event/poetry-f… please join us!

Very happy to have an essay in PIR 143 and in such stunning company. Love & thanks to Editor, Mícheál McCann & to poets @rosamundktaylor & Molly Twomey 💙 Thanks to all Poetry Ireland ✨Launching Sat 17 Aug KilkennyArtsFestival ✨Launching Tues 27 Aug No Alibis Bookstore

A thread of rare media of animals that are now extinct 1. Footage from 1933 of the last known surviving Thylacine, commonly called the Tasmanian Tiger. It died in 1936 in captivity in Tasmania.

Thank you to the poets who read at the launch of Poetry Ireland Review Issue 143 edited by Mícheál McCann KilkennyArtsFestival Top (L-R): Katherine Duffy, Mícheál McCann, Rafael Mendes 🇵🇸 Bottom: (L-R) Eoin Kelly Vona Groarke, rosamund Issue 143: bit.ly/pirissue

Delighted with this generous and thoughtful review of "May Swim" in today's "Irish Times". Thanks Vona Groarke! Martin Doyle Bloodaxe Books Poetry Ireland

Poems by Emily Cooper Luisa Muradyan and Gboyega Odubanjo in a great issue of Poetry Ireland Review edited by Mícheál McCann Brilliant also to see Lani O' Hanlon’s exquisite Landscape of the Body reviewed by rosamund

We would love if you could join us to celebrate the launch of HOWL 24 with a selection of fantastic readings and fine company at Waterstones Cork on Wednesday, Oct 2nd at 6:30pm🚀 With thanks to Cork City Arts & Cork City Council Munster Literature Centre Irish Writers Centre Poetry Ireland

The poets who will take part in Introductions 2024 are Kevin O’Farrell, Niamh Twomey, Ben Keatinge, Aine Rose Connell , Maciej Baltruszewicz, Clíodhna Bhreatnach, Shakeema Edwards, Mia Vance, Charlotte Buckley and Fionn Andrews Full announcement: poetryireland.ie/news/announcin…

Thank you rosamund for the thoughtful review of The Conversation (Doire Press) in the latest issue of Poetry Ireland. A privilege to have our poems so carefully considered.