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Looking beautiful too!

Submissions for Gorse 15 close this Friday. Have a goo below at the chosen theme! My Mrs complains that people don't always look at the theme, though interpretation is loose as a rabbit in July. It's an 'experimental' literary journal, which obviously means the writing should do just that! #Brazen

gorse 12 + 13 are now available in @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social.

gorse 12 (language) & 13 (taboo) are now available in @booksupstairs.bsky.social. We've also restocked NEW GREEN FOOL (as reviewed in the Irish Times):
booksupstairs.ie/product/new-...

New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham: A book of quiet beauty that circles Irishness without trying to possess it At the book’s core is an ongoing dialogue with Patrick Kavanagh’s The Green Fool

'For anyone drawn to questions of language, identity and what it means to live with depth rather than certainty, New Green Fool is a book of quiet beauty and real, lasting value.'

Thanks to Adam Wyeth for this review of NGF in the Irish Times:

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

We're aware. Sorted soon, hopefully.

#gorse12 (Language is a virus) has just arrived in the house from the printers and I flick open on this illustration by @badaude.bsky.social! Lord, it must be a sign that the world will survive after all 😃

Writing as a Reader and Reading as a Writer with Christodoulos Makris - Irish Writers Centre 8-week online creative writing course on reading as a writer and writing as a reader with Christodolous Makris. Begins Thursday 5 March, 2026.

Christodoulos Makris, our brilliant poetry editor, is leading an 8-week online course @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social: 'writing as a reader/reading as a writer.' Beginning on Thursday 5 March 2026, it will run weekly between 6.30pm-8.30pm Dublin time. Details:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

We're open to submissions next Friday (13th February) for gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! Full details on the website:
gorse.ie/gorse-15-eur...

Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13:

gorse.ie/book/no-12/

gorse.ie/book/no-13/

(Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)

You can now order @gorsejournal.bsky.social 12 which has my piece about Ole Mørk Sandvik, and reflects on the archive, photography, the process of researching, and commining with dead.

gorse.ie/book/no-12/

Leo von König (1871-1944): Bohème Café, 1909. Chansonnette Spela Albrecht and painter and poet John Hoexter.

@gorsejournal.bsky.social issue #12 with an essay of mine on the pitfalls of translating John Hoexter is out now: gorse.ie/book/no-12/

g13 is here!

More details on issues 12 & 13 soon.

gorse 13 has arrived to the house!

Finishing the year strong etc.: delighted to have an essay on my attempts to translate the expressionist poetry and prose of Berlin artist John Hoexter (1884-1938) in @gorsejournal.bsky.social #12. gorse.ie

This contains a seance I conducted with the photography of Norwegian musicologist Ole Mørk Sandvik from 1927. Delighted to see this piece come into print!

gorse 13: taboo.

'Language is a virus.' - William Burroughs/Laurie Anderson

Thank you! Mr @hitoneie.bsky.social again.

Catalogue for Sarah Pierce's SCENE OF THE MYTH exhibition (2023), with an extract from Roy Clare Potter's gorse 5 interview. With thanks to @immaireland

imma.ie/whats-on/sarah…

gorse.ie/book/new-gre...

Shortlisters have the chance to be published in one of our partner journals.

This year, we are working with @minorlits.bsky.social, @gorsejournal.bsky.social, Kill Your Darlings, Helter Skelter, Protoype, @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & Tenement Press.

desperateliterature.com/prize

⭐Partner Journal Shoutout⭐
@gorsejournal.bsky.social is a stunning, original Dublin-based journal featuring essay, fiction, poetry & interviews.

gorse has published 2019 & 2022 shortlisters Joshua Riedel & Jona Xhepa @quetzalfiach.bsky.social

2025 Prize info at desperateliterature.com/prize

Have emailed you there.

(Let me email you.)

As in, congratulations!

Well, there you go.

Now in stock!