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Alan Murphy
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Artist and writer of poems and songs. "In today's world anti-intellectualism is the real cancel culture." - Flint Dibble
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Featuring our very own @allgumsblazing.bsky.social - well done Alan!
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Launch No 2 for The Storms, the printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art, is the audio companion on Eat the Storms, the podcast.

This bumper episode episode is 2 hours+ and is now available on #Applepodcasts #AmazonPodcasts #Podbean and #Spotify

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November 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The 5th Storm has landed, the printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art featuring 89 star Stormers & cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn is supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @fingal.ie

Now available to buy at our online shop eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Including our very own @kevinmacalan.bsky.social !
rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social · 21d
Our latest anthology is available from Amazon. If you want to read the very best poets writing right now then take a look!
For anybody who has already bought a copy please consider leaving us a review, we'd appreciate it so much 🙏💎

#poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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WWAG members enjoyed today’s Waterford Writers Weekend poetry workshop with @jesstraynor.bsky.social - well done to @allgumsblazing.bsky.social, @kevinmacalan.bsky.social and David Ryan.

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #booksky #poetrysky #writesky #speirgorm
West Waterford Arts Group members with Jess Traynor at a poetry workshop for Waterford Writers Weekend
October 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Delighted to see our very own Kevin MacAlan published in Bewildering Stories. Congratulations!
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Have you submitted your waterford yet?!? Entries close 15 November. Get waterfording!
October 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Neurophilosophy 2 diptych by Sharon Reeber! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Neurophilosophy 2 diptych Sharon Reeber, Monotype on paper. Below are two images, placed one on top of the other. Both are abstract prints featuring repeating circular patterns layered over colours. The top image features a corridor of repeating spirals that move diagonally from right to left, with larger spirals running perpendicular to the central shape. The background is predominantly black with a cobalt blue square in the top-left-hand corner, a green web, and a hazy rectangle on the right-hand side. The bottom image shows a larger spiral shape placed in the center, with large spirals emanating outward from this central form. The Background is mostly black. A wide green line and peach haze occupy the bottom left-hand corner, and a cobalt blue and purple rectangle take up the right-hand side. Metachrosis Magazine
October 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I hammered out a few more unworthy words on Diane Keaton. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Charming, eccentric and likeable, no star had energy quite like Diane Keaton
Laid-back Californian built a 60-year career unlike any other, from Annie Hall to The Godfather
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October 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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It’s that man again! @allgumsblazing.bsky.social

Great work, Alan. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
metachrosislitmag.bsky.social Metachrosis Literary Magazine @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social · Sep 25
Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Animalculum by @allgumsblazing.bsky.social ! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Animalculum, Alan Murphy, Digital Photograph. Below is an image of a gray surface with orange patterns that resemble stains. The orange pattern vary in size and shape, though all are circular. They splay out across the length of the image. On the right hand side is a small white rectangle. The rectangle is roughly half the width of the image and is in the mid-ground. In this white rectangle are horizontal lines that flow and diver in a number of different ways and are different colours, all the lines are thin. The image is surrounded by a thin black border. Metachrosis Magazine
September 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Animalculum by @allgumsblazing.bsky.social ! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Animalculum, Alan Murphy, Digital Photograph. Below is an image of a gray surface with orange patterns that resemble stains. The orange pattern vary in size and shape, though all are circular. They splay out across the length of the image. On the right hand side is a small white rectangle. The rectangle is roughly half the width of the image and is in the mid-ground. In this white rectangle are horizontal lines that flow and diver in a number of different ways and are different colours, all the lines are thin. The image is surrounded by a thin black border. Metachrosis Magazine
September 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

Ellen Harrold is an Irish artist, writer, & editor-in-chief of Metachrosis Literary. She uses painting, drawing, text, and textiles to explore anatomy, physics, and ecology. ellenharrold.art
 
Supported by #fingalarts & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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My poem The Life and Death of an Aran Jumper appears in the latest issue of Poetry Bus. Out now! #poetry #poetrybus #aranjumper
September 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'Convection (Victory) Columns', by Ross McDiarmid! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
Convection (Victory) Columns Ross McDiarmid Joys rebound as off glass; ceilins ay sheer aether keep them. Below – knee-deep – in thought, a figure gains weight fie graven mass. Gravity – What force! – burdens their mien. So fraught, Homo Spiritualis waits ’twixt, neither plume, nor swoon – for fate, like the stars, exceeds. Their prayers Alongside the verse in an arrow pointing down, indicating the order in which the words are read. Metachrosis Magazine
September 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Meet the Stormers of Issue V

Alan Murphy is an award-nominated writer and illustrator of four collections of poetry for children and teenagers. He has contributed art & poetry to numerous digital & print journals
 
The Storms is supported by #fingalartso & #dublincityoflit

Arrives Nov
September 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Get your waterfords to Waterford!
kevinmacalan.bsky.social Kevin MacAlan @kevinmacalan.bsky.social · Sep 13
It’s time to write your waterfords for 2025’s competition.

We’re delighted to say this year’s judge will be the incomparable @allgumsblazing.bsky.social

Visit waterford.carrd.co for details and means of entry.
September 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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It’s time to write your waterfords for 2025’s competition.

We’re delighted to say this year’s judge will be the incomparable @allgumsblazing.bsky.social

Visit waterford.carrd.co for details and means of entry.
September 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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This is a collaboration I was very happy to be part of, now on the Palestine Embassy website. Thank you Kevin and the embassy.
kevinmacalan.bsky.social Kevin MacAlan @kevinmacalan.bsky.social · Jul 26
Coinciding with my contribution to the upcoming @madridlitmag.bsky.social #PoemsforPalestine edition, I am also excited to have a piece “Pyre” paired with phenomenal artwork by @allgumsblazing.bsky.social, and exhibited by the Palestine embassy in Dublin. palestineembassy.ie/artistic_con... #gaza
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July 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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July 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Metachrosis Issue 5 is now live! You can check out the full issue for free and order a print copy via: metachrosislitmag.com/metachrosis-... . If you enjoy the issue and want to help support us, you can also pop to our Ko-Fi. Thanks to all our amazing contributors! #litmag #literarymagazine
Issue 5 is out now! Catacombs / Wavelength / Remains Below is an image of the metachrosis Issue 5 cover. Metchachrosis Magazine The print cover of Metachrosis Issue 5 features the Title Metachrosis in light orange on a background of orange and black tie-dye. Underneath is a painting of a young woman crouched over a tree stump with plates and food. She is scraping jam out of a jar and wearing a loose, white dress and chunky shoes. Below is the text "Issue 5, Summer 2025." It is laid out on freshly cut grass.
July 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Just reviewing our proof copies of issue 5! Can't wait to share it with everyone in just over a month. ❤️
#litmag #literarymagazine
June 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Some Beckett quotes just feel a bit more on brand than others
April 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Excited to be reading my poem “Not All Disabilities are Visible” at tonight’s launch of The Martello. The esteemed @allgumsblazing.bsky.social and arts group maestro @mrsvickyday.bsky.social will also be in attendance.
April 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others." Vincent van Gogh

We love us the poets, writers, artists & performers who have blessed us with their presence on our stage, page & web all woven inside this week's edition of "The Best of Mad Swirl!"
The Best of Mad Swirl : 03.29.25
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent van Gogh ••• The Mad Gallery •••
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March 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The next edition of Just to Say: tune in to hear about @mollytwomey.bsky.social's forthcoming second collection. And our very own @kevinmacalan.bsky.social will be reading. Not to be missed!

Wed 2 Apr at 7pm. Contact jacarpress@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
#poetry #skypoets #poetsonbluesky
March 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life." ~ Agnes Martin

The only mystery in this week's beat-utiful edition of "The Best of Mad Swirl" is why you haven't checked it out yet! What'cha waitin' for?...
The Best of Mad Swirl : 03.22.25
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. Agnes Martin ••• The Mad Gallery •••
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March 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM