You are all very welcome to come to Bran’s second free public event on 14 June ⬇️

📢 Exciting Scholarship Opportunity for Aspiring Poets/Critics! 🎓✨
The prestigious Michael Longley Scholarships are now open for applications: 2 Scholarships of £7,500 each for 2024 entry. Closing Date: Friday 21 June 2024, 16:00 BST
For more info, visit go.qub.ac.uk/X0jbc

We've gone a bit quiet on here, we know. But we've been having fun making a grid on Instagram! Follow us there to see our faces. Also some bog oak. And a dirty old cassette tape. instagram.com/mapoetry_qub/

Finally my specialism has real world value

Back in 2015, my missus said 'Don't look at the sun' on the way out the door and I immediately pinched the line and wrote a poem about the #solareclipse & queerness and colanders & Bonnie Tyler's hair. It was my first published poem (& I have her to thank) themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=4767

A collective of Palestinians from Gaza and migrant justice advocates in the UK are working for a family visa scheme that builds on the Ukraine Family Scheme model. They need to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to trigger a debate in the UK Parliament. Sign here:…

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 4.30pm, to discover BRAN's research on Jamaican Ferdinand Levy: Harlem Renaissance poet, migrant, art collector, music aficionado, anticolonialist, and probably the first black poet published in Ireland

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Follow Bran Poetry for updates and info about our brilliant colleague Dr Karl O'Hanlon's HEA research project with Gail McConnell ! ⬇️

This week in lecturing / teaching / supervision

Jenny Offill
Leontia Flynn
Paul Muldoon
Samuel Ace
Linda Smukler
Transpoetics and Genderqueer Poetry

You’re never too young (or too old) to cycle to school! Finn, age 5, from Belfast loves cycling to school. Why? Because it’s ‘fun and fast’, he says! Join Finn and hundreds of schools across NI for the #BigWalkAndWheel starting today!