Be now, be touch, be music rippled on my altar.
 
Unanchored heart, I could not think of a barer light.

The South Bank Show made a film about Seamus Heaney in 1991, directed beautifully by Tony Knox. Here is a short clip of Heaney talking about Toome, ‘under bogwater and tributaries’ where ‘elvers tail my hair’

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Climate Writing & beautiful discussions about the sea this eve! Irish Writers Centre Kerri ní Dochartaigh

'Water as both mirror and an otherworld, is a place beyond judgement.' 🌊 -Easkey Ph.D.

'There have always been characters and space for positive change.' 💪🌎 -Aoife Hammond, Common Knowledge

Two of my favourite men in conversation The Linen Hall this afternoon -Malachi O'Doherty & Denis Bradley. Was an extraordinary discussion on Denis’s life and suggested that he has many more books in him! #PeaceComesDroppingSlow Patsy Horton Merrion Press 📚💙.

Cushendun Big Arts weekend. On Saturday 4 May Dr Frank Ferguson Chair of The John Hewitt Society will speak on Ulster Scots and The Glens. 11.00am in The Old Church, Cushendun.

Fantastic day today at Belfast Met giving a workshop on Unseen Poetry for the A Level Students.

Can't wait to read all the brilliant work for PIR's new issue! Please go check it out, I'm in there too. :)

Fantastic news! One of our recent graduates Keilan , has a poem in PIR! Check out his work. And watch this space for future publications.

Israel has dropped more than 70,000 bombs on Gaza in 200 days.

That’s 20 times more than the US dropped on Iraq in 6 years.

And Iraq is 3,500 times the size of Gaza

It’s not a war.

It’s a full on genocide.

FUCK ISRAEL

Goo for it! Its a fab week!

Happy Poetry Month! Before Emily Dickinson was a poet, she was a letter writer, and tomorrow, her vast and dazzling collection of letters—expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years—goes on sale: hup.harvard.edu/books/97806749…

Really looking forward to this tomorrow night! 🌎💪 Irish Writers Centre

#BreakingNews #JHISS24 Community Bursary Scheme is open for applications. Just follow the
link...forms.gle/1GJ7NCpUK1rSKu……
#JHISS24 will take place, Mon 22 - Sat 27th July
Market Place Armagh Closing date Thursday 10 May, 5pm.
Thanks to everyone for all the reposting!

Niamh McNally EcoIreland Yeeeeeeeeoooooo! Roll on 11th May!!!!! 😃🙌🫶🌍💚

Highly recommended play #ToxicRelationships
Brava, Byddi Lee Byddi Lee Writing The Earth writer & #NorthernSoulRoadshow special guest author on the success of Toxic Relationships Armagh Theatre Group

#WritingTheEarth iCRAG Centre Irish Writers Centre

Our wee writers group in Derry, ‘This Writing Thing…’ are beside ourselves with glee to be hosting Anne Tannam Poetry Ireland workshop in our neck of the woods in June. We’ll have the kettle on Anne!

Zoom calls with Lou Solas Haven 💚 are always the best!

Roll on the 11th of May for our EcoIreland CHILDREN'S PARADE! 🎉

🌎 11th May 2024
✍️ Writers Square, Belfast
⏰ 1pm!