Agnes Higgins and Seán Hewitt representing the numbers and the stories that make up the picture of the lives of #LGBTQI + people in Ireland at the launch of 'Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland'. School of Nursing & Midwifery, TCD English, TCD Trinity College Dublin BelongTo HSE National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, Youth

It's a great honour to be asked to give this year's Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture, in partnership with Seamus Heaney Centre and @NDIrishStudies.

I'll be speaking about Heaney's sense of touch, about how poems touch us, and how we touch the world through poems.
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my own little landing spot on the liffey

A joy to write the spring #poetry round-up for The Tablet …
Dazzling debut by Camille Ralphs + Seán Hewitt’s wonderful 2nd collection + Safia Elhillo, Kerry Hardie, V.R. Bunny Lang. Faber Books Carcanet Press Bloodaxe Books

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Creative writers of fiction! ⁦English, TCD⁩ wants you. It’s tenure track. And we’re very nice.

Announcement!

🌿✨SAINTS✨🌿 A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic

Out Sep 12, 2024!

Signed copies can be pre-ordered from a wealth of bookshops: geni.us/saints

I’m so grateful for the chance to spend my time in miracles, histories & paper cutouts…🖤

first day of annual leave

(Some Men in London is absolutely brilliant)

Just some of the collections you’ll hear by tuning into the new episode of the podcast this Sunday morning

Rapture’s Road from Seán Hewitt & Jonathan Cape

Loggerheads from LaPetiteCreature & The Broken Spine

The Breadcrumb Trail from Lawrence Moore🇺🇦 & Jane's Studio Press

spring has come to the back garden

An essential long read here by Rashid Khalidi. Prof Khalidi will be speaking on this subject online with Academics for Palestine TCD at 6pm on Monday, 22nd April.
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Big congrats to Patrick for winning the John Pollard this evening. Really beautiful poems

Looking forward to reading at International Literature Festival Dublin in May, with Mary Jean Chan and Harry Josephine Giles. Come along if you're in town!:

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Anyone know what this is? Surely too big for cuckoo spit (it’s about 5 inches) but I am happy to be wrong

This Saturday on the #poetry #podcast we are celebrating upcoming, new & recent poetry pamphlets & collections and one of my guest will be Seán Hewitt reading from his new collection Rapture’s Road

Tune in from 5pm on your preferred podcast platform to
Stay Bloody Poetic 😉💙

Huge Congratulations to Deirdre Madden!!!!! 👏 👏 👏

Deirdre is one of the 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipients!

Deirdre is the Co-Director of the M.Phil. in Creative Writing course in the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre

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