Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
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“It was always those with almost nothing else to carry / who carried the songs / to Babylon, to the Mississippi…”
~ from the #poem ‘Carrying the Songs’ by Moya Cannon, published in our Empire issue (2003):
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Beautiful poem.
“Our country has been undone. The national purpose is in a heap of fragments.”
~ Thomas McCarthy, ‘The Years of Forgetting’ (2009)
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Magic
My husband Garry's second poetry collection, FIRTH, is out this summer and I tell you without bias that he is a genius. But don't take my word for it:
"I know no poet currently practising more gifted, or original, and accomplished than Garry MacKenzie.” Andrew McNeillie, poet and editor.
“I often wonder what the government’s game plan is as far as the Windrush generation is concerned...”
~ Ahmed Olayinka Sule, ‘Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere’ (2026)
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“we forgot our place in past & future // we forgot to build the boats that we would need”
~ from ‘Firth’ (2026), Garry MacKenzie’s truly original work of poetic meditation and eco-consciousness 📚
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Ragpicker Poetry now feat. new #poems
- by Mary O'Malley (@carcanet.bsky.social)
www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/mary-o-malley/
- by Maggie Hoppel
www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/maggie-hoppel/
- & by Stewart Sanderson (@tapsalteerie.bsky.social)
www.ragpickerpoetry.net/company/stewart-sanderson/
This on the wall as I arrive in Sheffield
‘Joyce was trying to broaden the scope of what it means to be a human being’
Brilliant to chat with director Caveh Zahedi for @headstuff.bsky.social, about reimagining Ulysses on screen 🎬
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More on "Ulysses, New York" at this year's @bloomsdayfilmfest.bsky.social ☘️
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Rossa
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Vicky MacKenzie
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Siobhan Potter.
Ciarán O'Rourke
Ciarán O'Rourke
“we forgot our place in past & future // we forgot to build the boats that we would need”
~ from ‘Firth’ (2026), Garry MacKenzie’s truly original work of poetic meditation and eco-consciousness 📚
More here: irishpages.org/product/firth/
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Mark Cousins
“It was always those with almost nothing else to carry / who carried the songs / to Babylon, to the Mississippi…”
~ from the #poem ‘Carrying the Songs’ by Moya Cannon, published in our Empire issue (2003):
irishpages.org/product/the-...
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
Ciarán O'Rourke speaks with Caveh Zahedi ahead of his appearance at this year's Bloomsday Film Festival in Dublin
Three poems by Maggie Hoppel. Maggie is a poet and undergraduate student from Indianapolis, Indiana. She loves quilting, junk journaling, and her dog. She studied in Dublin for a semester in 2025 and ...
“It was always those with almost nothing else to carry / who carried the songs / to Babylon, to the Mississippi…”
~ from the #poem ‘Carrying the Songs’ by Moya Cannon, published in our Empire issue (2003):
irishpages.org/product/the-...
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
