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OPEN CALL: THE AODH RUADH Ó DOMHNAILL POETRY EXCHANGE - SEPTEMBER 1-30 2026 🍀 REQUIREMENTS: Any poet over 18. Born/resident in Ireland. At least one published collection of poetry. 🗓️ DEADLINE: 12:00am 29th May More info: poetryireland.ie/news-events/pa… Supported by Poetry Ireland.

Mountshannon Arts Festival in association with Poetry Ireland presents: Taking Flight Poetry Reading and discussion with Colm Keegan and Lavie Olupona 📅Saturday 30 May 🕔2:00pm 📍Anita's Store, Mountshannon 🎫€10/€8 with wristband 🔗More info/booking: poetryireland.ie/news-events/pa…

BACK DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!! Meet an array of talented adult authors of fiction, crime fiction, and poetry! Over 30 authors will have stalls at Book Fest, providing an opportunity to chat, share your love of the written word and to buy signed and dedicated copies.

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We are delighted to present our first Insights Masterclass of the year, presented by Sean Borodale. 'Finding Lightning in the Unlikely' explores how a poem starts, and what to do when it does. 📅Wed 3 June 🕔6:30-8:30PM 💻Online 🎫€20 🔗Book: poetryireland.ie/news-events/po…

✨We are delighted to have so many brilliant 'home' poetry events taking place across the island for Poetry Day Ireland 2026.✨ 🏠Check out all the events taking place in Waterford, Westmeath, Wicklow and Online! 🔗More info: poetryireland.ie/poetry-day-ire….

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We asked ChatGPT to write like Marian Keyes, John Boyne and Paul Howard. Now they rate the results irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via @IrishTimesBooks

A fun morning at Skibbereen Library for Cruinniú na nÓg. We held a wonderful Portrait Painting Workshop with Clare. Thanks to all our fantastic artists and thank you Clare for your artistic guidance. #CruinniúNanÓg #DareToCreate Many thanks,

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Thomas Kinsella: ‘Reading a poem requires the kind of care needed to cross the street’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via @IrishTimesBooks

Attention writers- we have last-minute places available on our 'Tea and Tanka with Tess' workshops! In these free online sessions, participants will learn about the poetic form 'Tanka'. 📝 Email corkcountylibrary@corkcoco.ie BEFORE 12pm on Thursday, 28th October to register! ⏰

We're gifting four free places to the online poetry workshop led by Enda Wyley, taking place as part of @DingleLit on Sat 13 Nov. These will be awarded to poets of any age currently based in Ireland who can’t otherwise afford to attend. Apply by 4 Nov. ed.gr/dpq18

"[Everything] in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - Posthumous 1982 #Pulitzer Poetry Prize winner Sylvia Plath, born #OTD in 1932. #wednesdaythought #amreading

Looking forward to the @AmerginPoetry Gathering this weekend! What better cure for the rainy day blues than poetry on the beautiful Kerry coastline 🌊 28th-31st October, book your tickets here: amerginpoetry.com/day-tickets/

These lines from @Leeanne_Quinn_'s collection Some Lives (@dedaluspress 2020) have been painted onto pavement in towns around Ireland as part of #PoetryTown from 10-18 September. There's a catch - the words only appear in the rain, so keep an eye out for cloudy skies 🌧️

Lots of creative and innovative events happening in #PoetryTown Mountmellick, including a free online workshop with Poet Laureate Arthur Broomfield on 16 Sept. Are you an adult in Laois interested in poetry? Check out more details of the programme here! poetryireland.ie/poetry-town/mo…