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So excited that this is so close to coming out -- hope you enjoy

08.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a scene in Hamnet of William Shakespeare contemplating suicide and I was like please don't start reciting 'to be or not to be' and then he did

23.01.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not surprised that A Month in the Country is first on the list. Good luck, Gayle!

06.01.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Get 20% off all titles at unnamedpress.com until 1/1!

18.12.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Chuffed for all the people who are posting saying they outsold Nuzzi but even Nuzzi numbers are all but unimaginable for small press poetry, buy my and Harry's new book, help us dream: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...

12.12.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I had a dream last night that I made a post telling everyone to stop rating books on a numerical scale

08.12.2025 12:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unnamed Press

Henry Henry's US publisher @unnamedpress.bsky.social is currently running their big holiday sale -- if you want a discounted copy of HH, hardback or paperback, without ordering from Am*z*n, now's your chance.

unnamedpress.com

24.11.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!!! Yes!!!

20.11.2025 19:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Page from the IWU newsletter with notices of Rob Kiely's book Psalms and Kit Fryatt and Harry Gilonis's Book of Inversions.
Psalms | Robert Kiely |
Distance No Object, Oct
2025
Psalms reimagines the biblical psalm form
through palaeontology. Language is treated as a
fossil record: bones, sediments and trace
impressions through which violence, extinction
and memory can be inferred but never fully
recovered. In poems that move between Gaza,
deep time, Irish poetic marginalia and our mediadrenched everyday life, the work offers a haunting
meditation on what remains, what erodes, and
what refuses to be preserved.
Book of Inversions | Kit
Fryatt & Harry Gilonis |
Veer2, Nov 2025
Book of Inversions is a daring poetic
collaboration rooted in medieval and earlymodern Irish originals, yet boldly inverted. Fryatt
and Gilonis reinterpret original Irish poems,
flipping and recomposing them in contemporary
registers. Satirical, irreverent, and formally
adventurous, the book transforms inherited
tradition into a site of play, tension, and renewal.
Meanings slip sideways, rhythms unfold against
expectation, and the ancient becomes startlingly
new in this inventive re-imagining of our poetic
past. For readers of books such as Geoffrey
Squires' My News For You: Irish Poetry 600-1200,
it is a must-have!

Page from the IWU newsletter with notices of Rob Kiely's book Psalms and Kit Fryatt and Harry Gilonis's Book of Inversions. Psalms | Robert Kiely | Distance No Object, Oct 2025 Psalms reimagines the biblical psalm form through palaeontology. Language is treated as a fossil record: bones, sediments and trace impressions through which violence, extinction and memory can be inferred but never fully recovered. In poems that move between Gaza, deep time, Irish poetic marginalia and our mediadrenched everyday life, the work offers a haunting meditation on what remains, what erodes, and what refuses to be preserved. Book of Inversions | Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis | Veer2, Nov 2025 Book of Inversions is a daring poetic collaboration rooted in medieval and earlymodern Irish originals, yet boldly inverted. Fryatt and Gilonis reinterpret original Irish poems, flipping and recomposing them in contemporary registers. Satirical, irreverent, and formally adventurous, the book transforms inherited tradition into a site of play, tension, and renewal. Meanings slip sideways, rhythms unfold against expectation, and the ancient becomes startlingly new in this inventive re-imagining of our poetic past. For readers of books such as Geoffrey Squires' My News For You: Irish Poetry 600-1200, it is a must-have!

Black and white cat on blue and grey sofa cushions with copy of Book of Inversions

Black and white cat on blue and grey sofa cushions with copy of Book of Inversions

A must-have! Dulcibella agrees. First print run (which admittedly was not on the scale of, like, Byron's Don Juan) is nearly sold out, get your copy here: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...

17.11.2025 09:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There's so much to work with in Henry IV Pts 1 and 2 especially -- Poins' peach-coloured stockings and Hal's bloody favours and the horse that frets like a gummed velvet. Excited to see all of the Henriad stuff in your book.

11.11.2025 16:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! πŸ₯³

11.11.2025 12:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This French website will only let me choose Connacht, Leinster, Munster or Ulster as the region for my shipping address

28.10.2025 23:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I've really been getting into Richard Nixon. Has anyone heard of him. Crazy guy

21.10.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Massively enjoyed my evening with the DCU book club -- thanks so much for the warm welcome and the insightful questions. I was very touched that at least one person liked Hal and wanted him to be happy.

21.10.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sick of having to be in someone's vlog every time I go to Trinity

14.10.2025 12:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is my hypothesis

10.10.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Allen Bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Henry, Henry' on Thursday, the 16th of October. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3J0qZLg

08.10.2025 13:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
DCU Book Club with Allen Bratton | dcuartsandculture

Dubliners: on 16 October I'll be joining the Dublin City University book club to talk about Henry Henry with a very special interlocutor, Dr Kit Fryatt -- professor, husband, & indispensable literary collaborator.

Free and open to all, but please register ahead of time: www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...

07.10.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

!! Hope you have fun! I enjoyed following your slow Shakespeare Richard II a while back.

05.10.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

05.10.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.

05.10.2025 11:59 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. We are looking for unpublished short fiction, no longer than 4000 words.

Last day to submit!

Judged by Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price, the winning stories will receive cash prizes and publication in The London Magazine.

Submissions close at midnight. More details here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

29.09.2025 12:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Signed a few copies of Henry Henry in Heffers and Waterstones Cambridge

28.08.2025 11:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Putting HBCUs and Hispanic Serving institutions at the beginning of the list and Asian Americans at the end of it thinking people will just skim and be like ah yes very progressive and miss the 'make x x again' stuff in the middle lol like why even try at this point we all know the score

22.08.2025 18:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Also found this beautiful edition of SJ NaudΓ©'s Fathers and Fugitives which I read and enjoyed as an ARC last year

21.08.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotted Henry Henry in the front window of my beloved Hodges Figgis

21.08.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Would red legs continue to proliferate if importation was limited, or is the population being sustained purely by repeated seasonal imports?

18.08.2025 13:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Peak UK moment

07.08.2025 11:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm always hearing about these

06.08.2025 19:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minister Patrick O’Donovan has announced a 6-month extension to the Pilot Scheme for Basic Income for the Arts.

The NCFA are raising the profile of the sector call to Retain, Extend and Expand Basic Income for the Arts
πŸ”— ncfa.ie/2025/06/19/j...
/ email info@ncfa.ie link with your local constituency

06.08.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0