President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, has made an ‘historic’ visit to Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy today. bit.ly/2sbewK2

In this week's episode we speak to novelist and essayist, Joanna Kavenna. We talk about beginnings, finding a voice in fiction and taking a Wittgensteinian view of reality. Episode 11 - 06/06/18

Reading Friends is an exciting new UK-wide programme that will empower, engage and connect isolated older people through reading. .Verbal is offering a grant of up to £10,000 to establish a Reading Friends Programme in Northern Ireland. verbalartscentre.rit.org.uk/news/reading-f…

One of the most distinctive poets of his generation. We are delighted to be working alongside Verbal Lagan Online & Education Authority to gift this important collection to schools across Belfast. MaloneCollege

Thanks to Verbal, Lagan Online, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Education Authority for their kind donation of Padraic Fiacc’s poetry. Thanks also to Department for Culture, Media and Sport for kindly donating a copy of ‘The Centenary of the First World War’ to the library. Both books will be on the shelves this week.

The Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival (@NIMHAFF) is at ISLAND Arts Centre next week with three free events in dance, circus skills and poetry, for a festival that asked people to think about their own mental health, and how we can help protect it. laganonline.co/nimhaf-returns…

For the Archives: 'Latch' by Paul Jeffcutt (2010) "The tone is confident and assured, the content is thought-provoking and, as a whole, it stokes passion and emotion within the reader." laganonline.co/from-the-archi…

"Fifty years ago a stranger carries all five pounds of me over the threshold. Leaves me high ‘n’ dry to the mercy of nuns." ('Requiem for the Sold') We review Anne Fitzgerald's collection Vacant Possession, from @salmonpoetry. laganonline.co/review-anne-fi…

Exhibition looks back at #CivilRights, street protest and resistance in Northern Ireland - and the 'lost moment' that may have averted the Troubles: bit.ly/2IlOjP0

Tomorrow, poet Galal El-Behairy will receive his verdict after being jailed for his lyrics in #Egypt since March 3, 2018. Join ARC – Artists at Risk Connection & PEN America to petition for his release! /bit.ly/freegalal PEN International @FInnPEN رامي عصام Musiikkineuvosto #freegalal #prisonersofbalaha

Summer is declared! stingingfly.org/product/summer…

"Composing in BSL is like English but I find it more fluid: you can express quite abstract notions visually more quickly and elegantly than by using verbs." We interviewed Pazbi Zavatzki, founder of BSL slam last September: ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/features/bsl-s… x.com/PoetrySociety/…

At @CruseNI and StrokeAssociation NI's Beyond Words celebration at Titanic Belfast

This Saturday at 2.30pm tune in to #LisburnReads on @Lisburns98 and online at tunein.com/radio/Lisburns… to hear from award-winning writers R.B. Kelly Csilla Toldy and what's on Belfast BookFestival

The ever popular Belfast BookFestival returns on 6th-16th June, with a bumper crop of events ranging from workshops, book launches, poetry, readings, music, family activities and more. Here's our top ten highlights of the festival. laganonline.co/belfast-book-f…

May Over The Edge: Open Reading with Jacqueline Saphra, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Jessamine O’Connor PLUS launch of issue 10 of Skylight 47 overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2018/05/may-ov… @jsaphra Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann Skylight 47 Martin Doyle The Stinging Fly AnomalyLit @NUIG_MALP Writers' Society University of Galway

.@CruseNI and StrokeAssociation NI celebrate six years of their Beyond Words project, focusing on the importance of storytelling to empower people. laganonline.co/beyond-words-c…