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Aoife Lyall
@aoifelyall.bsky.social
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Poet, editor, mentor, teacher.
The Day Before (Bloodaxe Books) out 22nd February 2024
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More reviews in our current issue 'Ownership' - magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/
@aoifelyall.bsky.social reviews @pimlottkathy.bsky.social's 'After the Rites and Sandwiches';
Camille Ralphs' 'After you were, I am'; and
@dzifabenson.bsky.social's 'Monster'.

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October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Editors @cloudscholar.bsky.social, Lola Oh and @williekinard.com are looking forward to receiving your submissions for Magma 94: REMIX

More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

Closing date: 31st July, 2025
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July 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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As Artistic Director of Winchester Poetry Festival in letting you know our programme is now LIVE! 🧵

www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
July 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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We're looking forward to publishing this in the UK & Ireland on 21 May 2026.
June 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Me- on stage- this Friday! All info below- see you there!
June 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Delighted to add my copy of Washing Windows V to my collection! Thanks to @booksupstairs.bsky.social 📚

Very honoured to have poems included in four of these very special anthologies 💫✨

Huge gratitude to @arlenhouse.bsky.social and @nualaoconnor.bsky.social 🙏🙏
May 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Ah Moniack, you beauty 😍
May 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! Come join our online launch of In the Flesh- hosted by myself & Victoria Kennefick- 7pm

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April 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Feels extra special to publish this poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social so close to my grandad's first anniversary this Saturday 🤍 thanks to @aoifelyall.bsky.social & Victoria Kennefick x
Stay Quiet He’s so sick of the TV’s endless bellow, the stench of faeces and mashed potatoes, but Grandad never complains even as his surgery gets postponed over and over, bruises on his arms like berry compote. He knows not to stir, that one patient was murdered by another for weeping all night. My first Luas trip, a man, high or drunk, groped my grandfather’s skull, giggled at his grey curls, twirled them around his knuckles before smoothing them flat as a field of maize. Grandad sat as if at a barbers and waited for the guy with a knife poking from his pocket to stagger away. All he had lost by then — his wife, seven border collies. I was shaking, nine years old, without a ticket. ‘We’re invisible,’ Grandad whispered. Photo of Molly with her grandad and two brothers
April 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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My contributor's copy made it across the pond! I'm so excited to have a poem in issue 91 of @magmapoetry.bsky.social and share it with you here. There's some beautiful work in this issue and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.
A copy of issue 91 of Magma with the theme "In the Flesh." The cover art is a wooden doll in a white dress, superimposed onto a brown background. A photo of page 68, which presents the first half of a poem titled Consumption by Adam Gianforcaro. It reads: Consumption after Still Life with Game, Vegetables, Fruit, and a Cockatoo Adriaen van Utrecht, 1650 Eight years without meat. Which is not to say this body has gone eight years without death inside of it. I have swallowed rot as rank as riverbeds, gnawed mold-pitted pride until it reached its dim-lit dwelling of near-womb. I cursed the fertileness of healthy harvests, and once, in a dream, ate an entire human baby, prompted by speculation that I was supposed to be born a twin. Believe me when I say I truly believed my parents were hiding one half of me. Some hospital mishap, an uncoupled pairing. What other reason could there be to feel so deeply this sense of loss, a relentless pull toward negative space? For a long time I misinterpreted each form of absence as hunger. And yet there were three meals a day, fresh fruit. I sat my shadow- self down for dinner, sang grace to god for his love of slaughtered hare. I slipped gravestones to my lips, A photo of page 69, which presents the second half of a poem titled Consumption by Adam Gianforcaro. It reads: digested new timelines. In one, I plucked cockatoo feathers with my canine teeth. In another, man-toothed men took to my skin with butter and herbs. I came out of the oven warm and watchful. My shadow disappeared It was noon or night and this carelessness caused a scene. But soon the sun shifted and there were shadows again. I licked their dark lengths to taste once more the sacrament of shame. Eight years and I can still feel a coppery coating in my mouth, the rawhide undertones of a longing to be devoured. I'm thirty-six now, my body at its heaviest. Somehow I thought this weight would bring me wisdom but different cuts of sunlight can still stretch my twinself wishbone thin. Outside the window, my ghost is across the pasture. Soon it will walk its way back to me. I will be full again, but not fully.
April 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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What a brilliant poem by Sarah Corbett in most recent @magmapoetry.bsky.social the whole edition is a very good read. Looking forward to Sarah’s next book.
April 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Join us on Wed 16 April 7-8:30pm, for the online launch of Magma 91 'In the Flesh'. Editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social & Victoria Kennefick host a celebration of the exciting new issue, with readings from a stellar line-up of M91 contributors.
Register your place here: bit.ly/M91launch
April 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · Apr 1
💋✌️ We are excited to reveal three cover designs for Claire-Louise Bennett's BIG KISS, BYE-BYE, out on 9 October 2025. These three cover designs are a departure from the iconic Fitzcarraldo Editions' series look, and mark the start of a bold new era for the publishing house. 💋✌️
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Can’t believe I don’t have to stay quiet anymore - I’m winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 for my pamphlet ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, which will be published with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social soon! Breathless and buzzing! Congratulations to Oli Isaac for their poem and all those shortlisted.
March 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Meet Nate, as in caffiNate 😀
March 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Thrilled to have a poem published in this beauty! Huge thanks to @magmapoetry.bsky.social and editors extraordinaire @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick 💗
March 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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And these by @jsaphra.bsky.social and @jesstraynor.bsky.social 🔥
March 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Some favourites - this spread with @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social and @katewakeling.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Spring has finally sprung and with it spring issues of @poetrylondon.bsky.social and @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m lucky to have a poem in each, alongside all manner of brilliance 💛
March 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Lovely to have a poem about queer love and self-discovery accepted for the next issue of Ambient Receiver ❤️
March 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Here’s a new poem – the first of a set of seven exploring the ‘capital vices’ (among other things) – in the terrific new issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social
Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷
March 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Congratulations to Wasafiri contributor Anthony V Capildeo on winning the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry this year!

In celebration, we've made an interview between them and Palestinian writer Yousif M Qasmiyeh free access until 30 April:

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Image of poet Anthony V Capildeo with congratulations text and Wasafiri logo
March 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Delighted to have a poem included in @magmapoetry.bsky.social Issue 91 ✨Thank you so much to editors Victoria Kennefick and @aoifelyall.bsky.social 🤍🤍
magmapoetry.bsky.social Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · Mar 24
It's here!

Delighted to announce Magma 91 'In the Flesh' is now published!

Edited by @aoifelyall.bsky.social & Victoria Kennefick.

Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...
March 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Fiona Larkin is the winner of the National Poetry Competition 2024 for ‘Absence has a grammar’.

Fiona Larkin’s debut collection, Rope of Sand, was published by Pindrop Press in 2023. The title poem was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. Her pamphlets are Vital Capacity (...)
March 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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magmapoetry.bsky.social Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · Mar 24
It's here!

Delighted to announce Magma 91 'In the Flesh' is now published!

Edited by @aoifelyall.bsky.social & Victoria Kennefick.

Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...
March 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM