Lauren O’Donovan
@laurenodonovanw.bsky.social
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award | Fool for Poetry Chapbook Comp | Cúirt New Writing Prize | Southword Poetry Prize | Howl New Irish Writing & Lime Square Poets | Arts Council Supported
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In the most violent unstreamed wrestling competition of 2025, in the final round, in the very last minute, I beat my website into obedience and now you can finally buy both my books online! (If that’s what you’re into 🖤) laurenodonovan.com
Looking forward to reading at Cultivating Voices this weekend with a wit of fabulous poets 🤩 (it’s one of my favourite word games to think of collective nouns for a group of poets)
October 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Looking forward to reading at Cultivating Voices this weekend with a wit of fabulous poets 🤩 (it’s one of my favourite word games to think of collective nouns for a group of poets)
Very much enjoying issue 146 of PIR which is packed with new poems and art by Stephen JohnsonVery grateful to @isabeldwyer.bsky.social for reviewing my pamphlet Superposition, to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social for publishing it, and to @poetryireland.bsky.social for providing a platform 🙏
September 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Very much enjoying issue 146 of PIR which is packed with new poems and art by Stephen JohnsonVery grateful to @isabeldwyer.bsky.social for reviewing my pamphlet Superposition, to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social for publishing it, and to @poetryireland.bsky.social for providing a platform 🙏
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Lauren O’Donovan @LaurenODonovanW.bsky.social has won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Cúirt New Writing Prize, Southword Subscriber’s Poetry Prize and, most recently, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Lauren is a grateful recipient of Cork County Council Arts and Arts Council funding.
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Lauren O’Donovan @LaurenODonovanW.bsky.social has won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Cúirt New Writing Prize, Southword Subscriber’s Poetry Prize and, most recently, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Lauren is a grateful recipient of Cork County Council Arts and Arts Council funding.
Really delighted to be honoured by the Sister Cities organization and Dr. Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney who will read from and discuss my poetry books Taxidermy Heart and Superposition in Newport News, Virginia this Sunday over what sounds like most delicious afternoon tea 🫖🎂
August 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Really delighted to be honoured by the Sister Cities organization and Dr. Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney who will read from and discuss my poetry books Taxidermy Heart and Superposition in Newport News, Virginia this Sunday over what sounds like most delicious afternoon tea 🫖🎂
Wonderful launch for @mollytwomey.bsky.social’s Chic to Be Sad last night in @waterstones.bsky.social 😍
July 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Wonderful launch for @mollytwomey.bsky.social’s Chic to Be Sad last night in @waterstones.bsky.social 😍
Getting caught up on summer media — it was a thrill to be at the award ceremony for the CIPF Farmgate Award this year which went to the amazingly talented Victoria Kennefick for Egg/Shell — www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
July 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Getting caught up on summer media — it was a thrill to be at the award ceremony for the CIPF Farmgate Award this year which went to the amazingly talented Victoria Kennefick for Egg/Shell — www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
It was an honour to be interviewed by the Echo last month about my book Superposition — here’s the link to the article online in case anyone wanted to read it and missed the print edition:
www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...
www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...
Cork author: 'There isn't enough discussion about fertility problems'
Prize-winning Carrigaline poet Lauren O’Donovan tells COLETTE SHERIDAN about her latest work, and why she feels there isn’t enough discussion around ...
www.echolive.ie
July 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It was an honour to be interviewed by the Echo last month about my book Superposition — here’s the link to the article online in case anyone wanted to read it and missed the print edition:
www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...
www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...
Little late posting, but had such a brilliant time in Galway for the @ragairemagazine launch. RAGAIRE is available to buy online, or at loads of good bookshops 🤩 ragairemagazine.com/buy/ ### Photos by Alanna Scully Photography
July 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Little late posting, but had such a brilliant time in Galway for the @ragairemagazine launch. RAGAIRE is available to buy online, or at loads of good bookshops 🤩 ragairemagazine.com/buy/ ### Photos by Alanna Scully Photography
If you’re a writer in Ireland, you’ve probably used Angela’s website to learn about submissions:
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July 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
If you’re a writer in Ireland, you’ve probably used Angela’s website to learn about submissions:
Congratulations 🥳 👏
Vona Groarke has been welcomed by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust as the new Ireland Professor of Poetry, one of the most prestigious positions in poetry. The position will run from September 2025 to November 2028.
Full press release here: www.poetryireland.ie/news/vona-gr...
Full press release here: www.poetryireland.ie/news/vona-gr...
July 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Congratulations 🥳 👏
My chapbook Superposition has one rating on Amazon - 4/5 stars 😱 There’s no review text so I’ll never know why my first and only review was docked a star 🤪 It must have been because of late delivery or something surely 😝
July 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My chapbook Superposition has one rating on Amazon - 4/5 stars 😱 There’s no review text so I’ll never know why my first and only review was docked a star 🤪 It must have been because of late delivery or something surely 😝
Fab to be featured in the Southern Star ⭐️ @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fab to be featured in the Southern Star ⭐️ @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
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Jennifer Horgan will read from her debut poetry collection Care in our @doirepress.bsky.social event on Fri 11 July and her book got an incredible @irishexaminer.bsky.social last weekend. "This is a book filled with outstanding poems" @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Poetry review: A debut that urges us to care
Divided into five sections, this is a collection that very deliberately speaks to Ireland in the 2020s
www.irishexaminer.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Jennifer Horgan will read from her debut poetry collection Care in our @doirepress.bsky.social event on Fri 11 July and her book got an incredible @irishexaminer.bsky.social last weekend. "This is a book filled with outstanding poems" @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Programmes, curations and the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
Hear from our Head of Programming, Damien B. Donnelly, on Curating the Centre with thanks to @writing.ie
Curating the Irish Writers Centre by Damien Donnelly
Damien Donnelly on his ‘hopes and dreams’ as the Programme Director for The Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. Arriving hot on the heels of my beginning at the Irish Writers Centre (while still producing my journal and podcast series), was our new…
Damien Donnelly on his ‘hopes and dreams’ as the Programme Director for The Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. Arriving hot on the heels of my beginning at the Irish Writers Centre (while still producing my journal and podcast series), was our new…
July 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Programmes, curations and the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
In the most violent unstreamed wrestling competition of 2025, in the final round, in the very last minute, I beat my website into obedience and now you can finally buy both my books online! (If that’s what you’re into 🖤) laurenodonovan.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
In the most violent unstreamed wrestling competition of 2025, in the final round, in the very last minute, I beat my website into obedience and now you can finally buy both my books online! (If that’s what you’re into 🖤) laurenodonovan.com
Honoured and beyond to be launching Skylight 47 issue #20 in Galway on Thursday at 6pm! I have huge admiration for Skylight: one of Ireland’s only broadsheet formats, every issue so beautifully and carefully printed, alongside exquisite art 🖼️ Hope you can join me!
June 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Honoured and beyond to be launching Skylight 47 issue #20 in Galway on Thursday at 6pm! I have huge admiration for Skylight: one of Ireland’s only broadsheet formats, every issue so beautifully and carefully printed, alongside exquisite art 🖼️ Hope you can join me!
Celebrating Seamus Heaney’s ‘North’ 50th birthday yesterday in Cork with fabulous company Róisín Leggett Bohan, Molly Twomey, and Tom McCarthy 🛥️ 🌊
June 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Celebrating Seamus Heaney’s ‘North’ 50th birthday yesterday in Cork with fabulous company Róisín Leggett Bohan, Molly Twomey, and Tom McCarthy 🛥️ 🌊
It was terribly fancy and very cool to get to read some poems at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin this week. I’m so grateful to everyone who came, and to the wonderful IWC staff — especially the fantabulous Damien Donnelly —
All the professional photos by ANDRES POVEDA
All the professional photos by ANDRES POVEDA
June 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It was terribly fancy and very cool to get to read some poems at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin this week. I’m so grateful to everyone who came, and to the wonderful IWC staff — especially the fantabulous Damien Donnelly —
All the professional photos by ANDRES POVEDA
All the professional photos by ANDRES POVEDA
What an amazing treat and honour to be invited to read @IrishWritersCtr alongside 4 poets I admire so much — really a bucket list moment! So grateful for the wonderful IWC team 🙏 and especially Damien!
This week, we held our first Writers Showcase at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
Find out all about @scyflynn.bsky.social @itosha.bsky.social @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social & D'or Seifer in our blog
irishwriterscentre.ie/writers-show...
Find out all about @scyflynn.bsky.social @itosha.bsky.social @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social & D'or Seifer in our blog
irishwriterscentre.ie/writers-show...
Writers Showcase at the Irish Writers Centre - Irish Writers Centre
Celebrating the first Writers Showcase at the Irish Writers Center where five poets came to read from new poetry collections and pamphlets.
irishwriterscentre.ie
June 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What an amazing treat and honour to be invited to read @IrishWritersCtr alongside 4 poets I admire so much — really a bucket list moment! So grateful for the wonderful IWC team 🙏 and especially Damien!
Tonight 🤩
Can’t wait to read in Dublin at the Irish Writers Centre this Wednesday at 6:30pm along with the incredible poets Afric McGlinchey, Luke Morgan, D’or Seifer, and S. C. Flynn. Would love to see you there if you are free, willing, and able!
irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
Writers Showcase: The Out of Towners - Irish Writers Centre
Join us at the Irish Writers Centre on Wednesday 18th June at 6.30pm for the first of our Writers Showcase.
irishwriterscentre.ie
June 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Tonight 🤩
Can’t wait to read in Dublin at the Irish Writers Centre this Wednesday at 6:30pm along with the incredible poets Afric McGlinchey, Luke Morgan, D’or Seifer, and S. C. Flynn. Would love to see you there if you are free, willing, and able!
irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
Writers Showcase: The Out of Towners - Irish Writers Centre
Join us at the Irish Writers Centre on Wednesday 18th June at 6.30pm for the first of our Writers Showcase.
irishwriterscentre.ie
June 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Can’t wait to read in Dublin at the Irish Writers Centre this Wednesday at 6:30pm along with the incredible poets Afric McGlinchey, Luke Morgan, D’or Seifer, and S. C. Flynn. Would love to see you there if you are free, willing, and able!
irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
My first appearance on The Echo was almost 30 years ago when I had the chance to hold a Royal Python at a pet fair. Today I’m lucky enough to be featured again in the Book Recommendations section for “Superposition” available to buy now — munsterlit.ie/bookshop/
June 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My first appearance on The Echo was almost 30 years ago when I had the chance to hold a Royal Python at a pet fair. Today I’m lucky enough to be featured again in the Book Recommendations section for “Superposition” available to buy now — munsterlit.ie/bookshop/
Can’t wait for this! Reading in the big city 🏙️ If you’re around Dublin, it would be wonderful to see you!
On Wednesday 18 June we’re hosting the 1st of our Writers Showcases at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
with @scyflynn.bsky.social @itosha.bsky.social @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social & D’or Seifer
Come join us for poetry & community 🎉🎉
with @scyflynn.bsky.social @itosha.bsky.social @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social & D’or Seifer
Come join us for poetry & community 🎉🎉
NEW WRITERS SHOWCASE SERIES!
🌟Spotlighting newly published writers across the island of Ireland🌟
Our first event will feature five poets from various parts of Ireland.
🗓️Wed 18 June 2025
🕣6.30-8.30pm
📍Irish Writers Centre, Dublin
🎟️ €5 (via Eventbrite)
irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
🌟Spotlighting newly published writers across the island of Ireland🌟
Our first event will feature five poets from various parts of Ireland.
🗓️Wed 18 June 2025
🕣6.30-8.30pm
📍Irish Writers Centre, Dublin
🎟️ €5 (via Eventbrite)
irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/wri...
June 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Can’t wait for this! Reading in the big city 🏙️ If you’re around Dublin, it would be wonderful to see you!
Honoured and delighted to be the featured reader at Lime Square Poets on June 12th! This event is online and completely free 💚 www.limesquarepoets.com/event-detail...
Lauren O'Donovan & Open Mic | Lime Square Poets
Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Lauren O'Donovan followed by Open Mic!
www.limesquarepoets.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Honoured and delighted to be the featured reader at Lime Square Poets on June 12th! This event is online and completely free 💚 www.limesquarepoets.com/event-detail...
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Thank you to everyone who attended the pamphlet launch in person or in spirit! Pamphlets are available for sale now in most bookshops and on our website: howlwriting.ie
It’s the week of launches — 3 in 4 days! Very much looking forward to visiting Dublin on Thursday to launch Ben and Rafael’s pamphlets 🚀 hopefully see you there 🐺 @poetryireland.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Thank you to everyone who attended the pamphlet launch in person or in spirit! Pamphlets are available for sale now in most bookshops and on our website: howlwriting.ie