“I’ve loved the phrase to ‘spurrie-how’, to run as fast as a sparrowhawk flies, since I found it. It speaks again of that first reach of metaphor to what is known and what is seen and imagined.”
~ from ‘Biding’ by Amanda Thomson:
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A Noh interpretation of my 'On Rona'. Japanese tradition meets the outermost Hebrides. This is what the Edinburgh festivals are for! Thank you EIBF.
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.
“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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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/
“James Joyce revolutionized not only Irish writing, but literature in general, by turning his disenchantment with the country to a formidable literary purpose.”
Patricia Craig on #JamesJoyce ☘️
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#Bloomsday
“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/
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Beautiful poem.
Heading to Docs Ireland film fest in Belfast. Another great looking programme.
I'm doing an illustrated talk on documentary and domestic space today at 4pm, QFT.
And Ireland/Uk premiere of 1st hour of my The Story of Documentary Film is on Sat, 6.15pm.
Hope to see some of you there!
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 ...
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Siobhan Potter.
“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
The Irish Pages Press
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Kathleen Jamie
Vicky MacKenzie
“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
The Irish Pages Press
Ciarán O'Rourke
“Books don’t have to be medicine,” says book fest chief Jenny Niven, as music, theatre and food take centre stage - @edbookfest.bsky.social 2026 👇🏾📚🎭
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
“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
Rossa
Mark Cousins
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Works of Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie and more to feature in celebration of literature’s interplay with other art forms, says director
