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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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Eugen Gomringer. Untitled (o), 1952
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Feel like this isn't the end of me yelling 'it's because they're Fine Gael' at British politics podcasts' commentary on the Labour party somehow
February 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Exciting new book post from @mcnallyeditions.com with a foreword from the wonderful @allenbratton.bsky.social! Alternative history Shakespeare set in 1930s London, what a dream.
Picture of Nobody book from McNally Editions
February 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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tupped.bsky.social
This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts.

They don’t know the patterns, but we do.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...
The Gist: UK Labour's FG mastermind
The UK Labour Party is being run into the ground, thanks to adopting FG's election tactics. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
February 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM
kitfryatt.bsky.social
Happy February, doss-month, month of dossing
15th century woodcut of a man wearing headgear and tunic but with bare feet and legs warming himself by a cauldron over a fire. His socks? are hanging on a rack above. Honestly it would give you chilblains just looking at it but it is the traditional labour of February, doing nothing.
February 1, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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diane di prima
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #14
REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #14 are you prepared to hide someone in your home indefinitely say, two to six weeks, you going out for food, etc.. so he never hits the street, to keep your friends away coolly, so they ask no questions, to nurse him, or her, as necessary, to know 'first aid' and healing (not to freak out at the sight of torn or half-cooked flesh) to pass him on at the right time to the next station, to cross the canadian border, with a child so that the three of you look like one family, no questions asked, or fewer, to stash letters, guns, or bombs forget about them till they are called for. to KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT not to trust ' even your truelove, that is, lay no more knowledge on him than he needs to do his part of it, a kindness we all must extend to each other in this game
January 27, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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54 years ago today ,the British Parachute regiment invaded Derry's Bogside and murdered 14 men and boys .The murderers are protected by their government and the PPS.
The murderers LIED to two inquires,still no justice.
January 30, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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For my followers in the EU, there is an European citizens’ initiative you can sign to demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
If you are for BDS this would be a huge step up.

eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
Justice for Palestine Stop EU trade with criminals
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Do not let the hunger strikers die! Open Letter to British Government from Irish organisations
#FreeThemAll

www.ipsc.ie/open-letter/...
Do not let the hunger strikers die! Open Letter to British Government from Irish organisations - Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
The below letter signed by more than 30 Irish civil society and political organisations regarding the hunger strike by remand prisoners associated with Palestine Action was today sent to the British g...
www.ipsc.ie
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Happy New Year! I think we can all agree
Arse-end of a black bus with silver stripe and the words "you are the journery" (sic), the "are the" in an awkward graphic design stepped arrangement. It's regularly parked round my way and they've corrected the typo now but it was more meaningful the way it was
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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In the world for real—get it here: www.unmpress.com/978082636879...
December 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Merry Christmas! Wishing everyone rest and renewal.
Cat-like foliate head at Ely Cathedral
December 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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it’s St Lucy’s day, so you know what that means — time for the best John Donne poem
JOHN DONNE (1572-163I) A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day, Being the Shortest Day Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes, Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes, The Sunne is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rayes; The worlds whole sap is sunke: The generall balme th'hydroptique earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the beds-feet life is shrunke, Dead and enterr'd; yet all these seeme to laugh, Compar'd with mee, who am their Epitaph. Study me then, you who shall lovers bee At the next world, that is, at the next Spring: For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new Alchimie. For his art did expresse A quintessence even from nothingnesse, From dull privations, and leane emptinesse, He ruin'd mee, and I am re-begot Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not. All others, from all things, draw all that's good, Life, soule, forme, spirit, whence they beeing have, I, by loves limbecke, am the grave Of all, that's nothing. Oft a flood Have wee two wept, and so Drownd the whole world, us two; oft did we grow To be two Chaosses, when we did show Care to ought else; and often absences Withdrew our soules, and made us carcasses. But I am by her death, (which word wrongs her) Of the first nothing, the Elixer grown; Were I a man, that I were one, I needs must know, I should preferre, If I were any beast, Some ends, some means; Yea plants, yea stones detest, And love; All, all some properties invest, If I an ordinary nothing were, As shadow, a light, and body must be here. But I am None; nor will my Sunne renew. You lovers, for whose sake, the lesser Sunne At this time to the Goat is runne To fetch new lust, and give it you, Enjoy your summer all, Since shee enjoyes her long nights festivall, Let mee prepare towards her, and let mee call This houre her Vigill, and her Eve, since this Both the yeares, and the dayes deep midnight is.
December 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Chuffed for all the people who are posting saying they outsold Nuzzi but even Nuzzi numbers are all but unimaginable for small press poetry, buy my and Harry's new book, help us dream: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A must-have! Dulcibella agrees. First print run (which admittedly was not on the scale of, like, Byron's Don Juan) is nearly sold out, get your copy here: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
Page from the IWU newsletter with notices of Rob Kiely's book Psalms and Kit Fryatt and Harry Gilonis's Book of Inversions. Psalms | Robert Kiely | Distance No Object, Oct 2025 Psalms reimagines the biblical psalm form through palaeontology. Language is treated as a fossil record: bones, sediments and trace impressions through which violence, extinction and memory can be inferred but never fully recovered. In poems that move between Gaza, deep time, Irish poetic marginalia and our mediadrenched everyday life, the work offers a haunting meditation on what remains, what erodes, and what refuses to be preserved. Book of Inversions | Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis | Veer2, Nov 2025 Book of Inversions is a daring poetic collaboration rooted in medieval and earlymodern Irish originals, yet boldly inverted. Fryatt and Gilonis reinterpret original Irish poems, flipping and recomposing them in contemporary registers. Satirical, irreverent, and formally adventurous, the book transforms inherited tradition into a site of play, tension, and renewal. Meanings slip sideways, rhythms unfold against expectation, and the ancient becomes startlingly new in this inventive re-imagining of our poetic past. For readers of books such as Geoffrey Squires' My News For You: Irish Poetry 600-1200, it is a must-have! Black and white cat on blue and grey sofa cushions with copy of Book of Inversions
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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
Two people sitting in chairs talking
October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This is tomorrow, for anyone interested.
dublincityuni.bsky.social Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · Oct 8
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. 🧈 ☘️
Small paperback book about the size of a block of butter. Cover art looks like an Irish butter wrapper. Back cover: Nothing less than a history of Ireland sculpted in semi-solid emulsion, 'Butter Intervention' is sceptical about narratives and their revisions alike, as refined and as salty as the creamery product it subjects to forensic documentary survey and lyrical deconstruction. - Kit Fryatt Ellen Dillon takes the everyday and reveals it as strange, beautiful, poetic and political. I never realised before how much I needed to know about butter. And now I do, I'm grateful and amazed. - Wendy Erskine
October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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...
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October 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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:...
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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