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Kit Fryatt
@kitfryatt.bsky.social
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Books:
forthcoming: All Things That Are Passing, with Ellen Dillon (Spite Press, 2026)
Book of Inversions, with Harry Gilonis,(Veer2, 2025)
Bodyservant (Shearsman, 2018)
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Dr Kit Fryatt introduces the award winning novel Henry Henry by Allen Bratton at tonight's @dublincityuni.bsky.social Book Club in Cregan Library
October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is tomorrow, for anyone interested.
Allen Bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Henry, Henry' on Thursday, the 16th of October. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3J0qZLg
October 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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So delighted to finally have a copy of Ellen Dillon’s _Butter Intervention_ in my hands. 🧈 ☘️
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Absurdly, this also went live yesterday, the result of me and the brilliant @drnollid.bsky.social trudging through the fog on Ardmore clifftop spitepress.co.uk/product/all-... but just the pre-order this time: out in spring 2026
All things that are passing - Spite Press
All Things that are Passing is a poem in verse and photos about holy wells in Ardmore, Co Waterford and their builder-custodians; in particular Hugh Byrne (fl.1800) and J. P. Rahilly (c.1870-1953), wh...
spitepress.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
It's here at last, after 3 years (or 15, depending on how you're counting). Profound gratitude to all at Veer2, especially Rob Kiely, to Leda Scully for the cover artwork, and profoundest thanks of all to Harry Gilonis, my indefatigably scholarly and gentlemanly co-author
Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis - Book of Inversions — Veer2.org
Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis - Book of Inversions Veer2 Publication 050 [ISBN:...
veer2.org
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Allen Bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Henry, Henry' on Thursday, the 16th of October. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3J0qZLg
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Dubliners: on 16 October I'll be joining the Dublin City University book club to talk about Henry Henry with a very special interlocutor, Dr Kit Fryatt -- professor, husband, & indispensable literary collaborator.

Free and open to all, but please register ahead of time: www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...
DCU Book Club with Allen Bratton | dcuartsandculture
www.dcu.ie
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.
Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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FRIENDS I NEED YOUR HELP

A friend of mine is in desperate need of a room in Dublin IMMEDIATELY

BUDGET is €670

Anyone with a room available or know of one, please shoot me a message on here or comment below!

And please share this!
September 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Welcome to the Black British Folk Revival.

Guest curator Angeline Morrison and friends take over Cecil Sharp House with folk sounds, songs, and stories that shine a long overdue light on the African Diaspora's love for, and ongoing conversations with, British folk.

Sat 4 Oct
bit.ly/4f02wBB
September 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...
Pinks #35: Eugen Gomringer (1925-2025)
The life and work of Europe's first concrete poet
someflowerssoon.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡

Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
Basic Income for the Arts public consultation
ec.europa.eu
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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New permanent page on my website about my durational, ongoing writing & performance project DIAL:
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/dial.html
Christodoulos Makris
DIAL a durational writing, performance, recording and publication project (2021 - ongoing) About DIAL DIAL is a durational-procedural work o...
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT

Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton - Interview with the Author
YouTube video by Itinerant Literate Books
www.youtube.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Buy the @unnamedpress.bsky.social paperback of Henry Henry for your cat:

www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
June 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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SoundEye • 2025
July 4-6
Cork, Ireland
June 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”

Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
Urnings, in Ireland and Illinois
"It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life."
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June 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Please sign this to protect Irish arts jobs

www.surveymonkey.com/r/PRAXIS2025
Protect Artists & Arts Workers
Join Praxis!
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May 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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@kitfryatt.bsky.social on the latest publication from Macha Press: Crowd Work by Sam Furlong
May 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Join us on Thursday 1 May 2025 at the brand new Kirkos venue in central Dublin for a 60 minute performance from Chapter 5 (May) of my durational writing project DIAL, with sonic interventions from Joanna Mattrey, Nick Roth and Keith Lindsay.

More: yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/2025/04/dial...
April 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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COMING TO PAPERBACK 🔥May 20🔥

"Bratton’s electric debut novel transforms Shakespeare into a modern, queer drama that’s as bawdy as it’s sharp." —Hugh Ryan, The New York Times

Preorder now wherever books are sold or at unnamedpress.com to receive your copy BEFORE pub day! @allenbratton.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Lots of poems (4 by me) in the magnificently ungoogleable pdf mag sites.google.com/view/pdf-mag...
pdf.magazine.pdf
***issue two download link***
sites.google.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Thanks to Seán and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation for the chats
April 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Our podcast, The Glimpse, is back with a season of Irish poets!

Season 2 host Seán Hewitt interviews Victoria Kennefick, Mícheál McCann, Nithy Kasa, @kitfryatt.bsky.social, Martina Evans, Stephen Sexton, @gphibbett.bsky.social & @janeclarke.bsky.social in 8 new episodes.

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March 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM