Vona Groarke, Ireland Professor of Poetry (2025-2028), will give the first of her lectures this evening at 7.30 in Trinity College. A free event.
If you would like to attend please email irelandchairofpoetry@gmail.com
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Cover of Carragher's book is a painted woman's face with darkness and yellow around the eyes and neck
When Nobody Was Watching We were violent sisters who grabbed each other by the hair and swung with all our strength. No strangers to kicking heads or stomachs, fists pummelling. Experts at pinching, twisting. We wielded elbows, knees, sometimes a skipping rope, a stick. We fought, we fled. I'm not sure what other sisters teach each other. I've learnt to forgive what she's forgiven -how I rose in deepest hurt to lunge for her ankle, force her back down to the dirt.
Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 11 is 'When Nobody Was Watching' from 'What Remains the Same' by Alvy Carragher 💖 @thegallerypress.bsky.social
This weekend sees the 16th Annual Poetry Fest at The Irish Centre, New York. Curated this year by Vona Groarke other Gallery poets taking part are Alan Gillis and Grace Wilentz. To reserve your place:
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How You Knew I wrote to you that ordinary day, you who had once cracked your sternum wide apart for me to see the robin lying on the cage floor, ribs barely moving, and said to me, If ever you need my life, come and take it. You understood it sooner, that's all. I'd fooled myself for months that this was just a ruse -- a cherub with a quiverful of darts, folie à deux, a neurochemical trick or even vanity, that proud flower bowed over a looking glass. But this was never just anything. In a slip of concentration I wrote: I didn't love you, then. And then a skylight opened for each of us.
Cover of fallen featuring a painting of a woman in a red dress falling through the air, her legs and feet are bare, her arms are stretched over her head
Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 and I'm off to a bad start having missed yesterday! But here's 'How You Knew' by Audrey Molloy from her latest collection 'Fallen' published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social 💜
Our Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas offer is live.
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From Saturday’s Irish Times’ Poem of the Week. We look forward to publishing Micheál’s second collection in 2026 @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
All welcome at the launch of Ciaran Carson’s Selected Essays (1975-2014), edited by Gail McConnell, on 2 December. A windfall and a gift following Ciaran’s curious mind over four decades @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @shhomeplace.bsky.social
Christmas tree shape made from book covers with lines of snow beneath them. Text on top reads: Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas. To the right is a circle with the text 40% Off* *Plus P&P. At the bottom the text reads: Offer runs from 26 November - 10 December 2025. Limited to two copies of each title.
Special Offer on Twelve Poetry Books of Christmas 2025.
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Medbh McGuckian’s NEW SELECTED POEMS’ Belfast launch takes place in Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens tomorrow (Wednesday 19th) from 5.30. All welcome @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
The great Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will read as part of the Rostrevor Literary Festival on Saturday (8th). Catch her if you can.
This evening 🎉🎉👇👇
We’re excited to launch these two collections by Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Audrey Molloy @booksupstairs.bsky.social on Thursday (6th). All welcome! @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
Follow this link to access the T.S. Eliot Prize resources for Vona Groarke’s Infinity Pool. (Videoed readings to follow): tseliot.com/prize/work/i...
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Here’s a taster of our celebration of Derek Mahon which happens on 4 November. Watch and listen to this distinctive voice of this great writer
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Here’s an intriguing event to start your weekend. Both poets read from each other’s 2025 collections. Readings and a Conversation @waterfordlibraries.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social #waterfordwritersweekend #waterfordwriters #irishwriters
A Celebration of Derek Mahon in association with @notredame.bsky.social
Readings by John Banville, Claire Keegan, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Stephen Rea.
7.30pm, 4 November 2025, RIAM, Dublin 2
Tickets : €25.00
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Excellent episode of The Bookshelf podcast with Ryan Tubridy and Colm Tóibin. Discussions include his new book of essays, Ship in Full Sail. shows.acast.com/book-shelf-w...
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Thrilled to be sending Audrey Molloy’s third — and finest — collection, Fallen, out into the world, following her brilliant essay in Saturday’s Irish Times. We’re excited to welcome Audrey home for the launch on November 6th.
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Look at this for a lineup: John Banville, Claire Keegan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Muldoon and Stephen Rea. Our Celebration of Derek Mahon event is approaching. 4 November. Tickets: gallerypress.com/product/cele...
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Delighted to see Vona Groarke on the shortlist for this year's
T. S. Eliot Prize for her collection, Infinity Pool. Congratulations to all selected authors.
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Brian Patten 1946 - 29 September 2025
Eamon Carr and I had the pleasure of publishing beautiful poems by Brian in Capella.
I read with him in Dublin, Liverpool and Edinburgh. He was the 'marvellous boy' of the 60s and early 70s, an influential figure and a friend.
May he rest in peace.
Audrey Molloy's third poetry collection, Fallen, is available to order now: gallerypress.com/product/fall...
From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy. What does it mean to be a fallen woman? And can she ever redeem herself?
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Clifden bound? This is for you. Kevin and Molly reading from their new collections @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #newirishpoetry #clifdenartsfestival
This is a terrific interview/conversation with Colm Tóibín on SHIP IN FULL SAIL. Well worth taking the time to listen.
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Check out Colm Tóibín in last Saturday’s Ticket talking about new publications including SHIP IN FULL SALE and much more @irishlittimes.bsky.social
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Colm Tóibín @booksupstairs.bsky.social signing SHIP IN FULL SAIL: Laureate Lectures and Other Writings. Grab a copy while the signed ones last! @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
Excited to publish Colm Tóibín’s SHIP IN FULL SAIL this week. “Throughout there is a sense of a writer who continually surrenders to an intense and vital curiosity about the worlds he has experienced and the worlds he has invented.” #laureatelecturesandblogs @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
