Annemarie Ní Churreáin as one of our adjudicators for The Pigott Poetry Prize 2024! With a poetic voice that resonates deeply, brings a wealth of experience to the panel. Stay tuned for the shortlist announcement! 🎉 #kerrycountycouncil #failteireland #ArtsCouncilSupported

🇵🇸💫Come, experience the powerful voice of Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul 25-29 April ✨I'll be hosting Marwan The James Joyce Centre & then on to Cork World Book Fest ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Readings in Arabic, Irish, English💫INFO ➡️Hot Press. In assoc w IMRAM Poetry Ireland Irish PEN Bí linn

This heart-breaking poem by Mohammed El-Kurd appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of Poetry Review. We're glad to see it striking a chord with so many.

What a pair Carcanet Press 🥚🐇🦢🧸

Paschal Donohoe TD (Irish Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform) spotted with Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉's Egg/Shell Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery in Galway!

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Deeply honoured to launch 'Oh, Love', a gorgeous book of poems by one of my favourite poets and artists, Maggie O'Dwyer. Get along to Club Na Múinteoirí/ the Teachers Club next Thurs April 11th at 6.30pm to hear Maggie read, get your copy and raise a glass to her wondrous work!

One month until Hagstone is published. Thanks to the early readers for their support. If you'd like to pre-order...🩷 lnkfi.re/xZHHWt 4th Estate Books HarperCollins_Ire

Celebrate the online launch of Egg/Shell by Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 on Wednesday 13th March! 🥚🍳

Victoria will be reading a selection of poems from the new collection, and will be joined in conversation by host Elaine Feeney.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Wow what a lovely surprise! My poem Holidaying with Dad During the Divorce is Guardian poem of the week ✨

One for the early 2000s teens who remember the misery of giant denim flares + wet ankles.

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Thanks to Enda & Peter for the SPF shoutout during their brilliant podcast remembering Philip Casey. TS Eliot prize. Hear Jane Clarke read at our 2024 festival booksforbreakfast.buzzsprout.com/1162427/145013… #poetry #WritingCommu The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon The Irish Times Writer in Residence UCD - @VKennefick 2023 Irish Writers Centre Roscommon Libraries

UCD’s writer in residence Colin Barrett is now accepting applications for One to One Creative Writing Feedback Sessions in Fiction and Prose for writers of all experience levels!✍️

Details on how to apply: ucd.ie/englishdramafi…

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY Egg/Shell style 🥚🐣🍳🦢🌊🤍💛💙

Celebrate the online launch of Egg/Shell by Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 on Wednesday 13th March! 🥚🍳

Victoria will be reading a selection of poems from the new collection, and will be joined in conversation by host Elaine Feeney.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Egg/Shell (Carcanet Press) spotted in the window of LRB Bookshop hanging out in some very illustrious company 🥚🐣🍳🦢🖤

My article on data centres in Ireland is today’s Guardian Long Read. Featuring digressions on Ireland’s civil war & our patchy memories, the burning of the public records office, & the environmental cost of our tech industry.

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Celebrate the online launch of Egg/Shell by Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 on Wednesday 13th March! 🥚🍳

Victoria will be reading a selection of poems from the new collection, and will be joined in conversation by host Elaine Feeney.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

For the day that's in it, listen to Aosdana poet Margaretta D'Arcy read 'Valentine Letters from a prickly poet and an awkward doggerel maker'. Margaretta's poems are preserved in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive for future generations to enjoy. Go to:
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Pre-order your copy of Egg/Shell using the code FEBBOOKS for 20% off and free UK P&P 🔗bit.ly/487lqS4

...Kennefick, in the follow-up to her best-selling Eat or We Both Starve, breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity, formal ingenuity and wit.

Acclaimed as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years...