Absolutely buzzed to announce that pre-orders for our new poetry collection The Oasis by Charles Lang are now open! tinyurl.com/27bv5hpx ❄️Special festive offer: all pre-orders received before December 16 will arrive beautifully gift-wrapped with a unique bespoke postcard!❄️

Congratulations to these four wonderful poets selected for Jerwood Poetry Awards Karen McCarthy Woolf clare e. potter @shaetlan_rose Scott McKendry

Novel next year. 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 & 🏐

⏰Poets, you still have the weekend to get your application ready for our 2025 Poetry Workshop! 🦋 Deadline is Monday 9th December 5pm! ℹ️ All details can be found here: stingingfly.org/poetry-worksho… The Stinging Fly

📌⏰ Last call! We're accepting applications for the 2025 The Stinging Fly Poetry workshop until 5pm today! #poetrynews

We have opened a special pre-release period for our new poetry collection The Oasis by Charles Lang, hailed as 'one of the best new poets in Scotland'! tinyurl.com/27bv5hpx Pre-orders received before December 16 arrive beautifully gift-wrapped + a unique bespoke postcard!🎁

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Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce 3 new guest editors of Poetry Ireland Review 2025: Victora Kennefick Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉, Stephen Sexton Stephen Sexton, and Theo Dorgan. Our Irish language editor is Aifric MacAodha aifric mac aodha Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon & Arts Council of Northern Ireland

The summer submission window for PIR issue 146, edited by Stephen Sexton, will open on May 1st and close on June 30th. Stephen Sexton

✨We're so excited to reveal our Spring 2025 selections! HUGE congratulations to our Choice Richard Scott and all the recommended poets! 📚Join today for a year of poetry parcels containing the very best new books and our lively quarterly magazine plus a special welcome gift

NEW: Palestinian author Yousri Alghoul’s story from our Summer 2024 issue. Yousri, like the story’s narrator, is living with his family in a refugee camp in Gaza. He’s currently seeking help to get his four children out of the country, away from the war. stingingfly.org/2025/01/07/a-l…

We're launching Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea in the SHC on February 6th.

📢 If you’re in/around Edinburgh on February 4th, head to Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh to hear Charles Lang read from his forthcoming collection The Oasis, alongside other Edwin Morgan Trust finalists and winners! A sneak preview of some of the finest new poetry. 🎫Tickets: toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinbur…

The Boy from the Sea is out today in the UK and Ireland. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way. "The power of Carr’s novel lies in the contrast between its warm hilarity and the cold truths those jokes contain ... vivid, loving and genuinely funny" — Sunday Times.

Excellent new essays on Irish writing inc on Jan Carson & Michelle Gallen & featuring Jessica Bundschuh on Stephen Sexton's Ciaran Carson elegy

🔔Submissions are now open for Poetry Ireland Review Issue 146, edited by Stephen Sexton! #PIR146 We welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, and proposals for articles & interviews, from Ireland & abroad, in Irish or English. 📥Submission details: poetryireland.ie/writers/submis…

Dylan at High Speed, a new poem by Stephen Sexton up now clunyjournal.com/p/dylan-at-hig…

This Thursday I’ll be in Belfast at the Cathedral1/4ArtsFest, in conversation with the brilliant Stephen Sexton, hosted by the new Seamus Heaney Centre Queen's University Belfast 🎓 at 6pm. Come along if you’re about! cqaf.com/caoilinn-hughe…

Jessica Traynor's just-published fourth collection New Arcana is featured as Book of the Week in @RTE Culture. Many thanks to @JCPattzfor this insightful and considered review. rte.ie/culture/2025/0…