Róisín Leggett Bohan
@leggettbohan.bsky.social
Writer💥
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2025
Work in Dedalus Press, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Aesthetica, The Pomegranate London, Magma, and more.
Ed. at HOWL New Irish Writing ✍️
Website: https://inkstainedwings.com/
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2025
Work in Dedalus Press, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Aesthetica, The Pomegranate London, Magma, and more.
Ed. at HOWL New Irish Writing ✍️
Website: https://inkstainedwings.com/
Huge gratitude to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for this interview with @booksireland.bsky.social 🩶 Looking forward to reading with Jennifer Horgan, Lianne O'Hara and Martin Dyar @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
'I think I was eleven when I read the popular psychology title, The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck.'
📕Q&A with Róisín Leggett Bohan📕
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @howlwriting.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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📕Q&A with Róisín Leggett Bohan📕
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @howlwriting.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social
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Q&A—Róisín Leggett Bohan - Books Ireland
Róisín Leggett Bohan talks all things bookish in our companion series to Burning Books.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Huge gratitude to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for this interview with @booksireland.bsky.social 🩶 Looking forward to reading with Jennifer Horgan, Lianne O'Hara and Martin Dyar @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
What an honour to be the recipient of The Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025. Thrilled to be chosen by the effervescent poet Victoria Kennefick and so delighted for my poetry pals, including the fabulous Martina Dalton who was highly commended 🩶
October 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
What an honour to be the recipient of The Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025. Thrilled to be chosen by the effervescent poet Victoria Kennefick and so delighted for my poetry pals, including the fabulous Martina Dalton who was highly commended 🩶
So lovely to have my poem 13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts featured @rteradio1.bsky.social
Huge gratitude to Belinda McKeon for selecting my work.
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Huge gratitude to Belinda McKeon for selecting my work.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts by Róisín Leggett Bohan
For Culture Night 2025, Guest Editor Belinda McKeon has curated a number of works from emerging creative talents of note...
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September 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
So lovely to have my poem 13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts featured @rteradio1.bsky.social
Huge gratitude to Belinda McKeon for selecting my work.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Huge gratitude to Belinda McKeon for selecting my work.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Breda Spaight, an extraordinary poet ✨️
Feeling humbled and grateful. A beautiful introduction to Watching for the Hawk in the Versopolis Review, written by the brilliant @leggettbohan.bsky.social. Thanks to @arlenhouse.bsky.social
and @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social. www.versopolis.com/poets 💙🕊️
and @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social. www.versopolis.com/poets 💙🕊️
Poets | Versopolis Poetry
Versopolis Review is a pan-European cultural and humanities magazine.
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July 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Breda Spaight, an extraordinary poet ✨️
I'm so pleased to be reading alongside a cast of poetry stars at Waterstones Cork for the launch of Southword Issue 48. Come join us if you're in town: 15th of July at 6:30pm. @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social 💫
July 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I'm so pleased to be reading alongside a cast of poetry stars at Waterstones Cork for the launch of Southword Issue 48. Come join us if you're in town: 15th of July at 6:30pm. @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social 💫
My wee poem will be featured on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight at 7:30pm. alongside great writers. Thank you to @zoecomyns.bsky.social & Belinda McKeon for selecting my work. It's such a fabulous show! 🤍
July 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
My wee poem will be featured on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight at 7:30pm. alongside great writers. Thank you to @zoecomyns.bsky.social & Belinda McKeon for selecting my work. It's such a fabulous show! 🤍
Delighted to have three new poems featured in this gorgeous issue. Wholehearted thanks to the editors of @manchesterreview.bsky.social ⚡️
Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is Now Live!
We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe.
We hope you enjoy reading our new issue.
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe.
We hope you enjoy reading our new issue.
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Issue 27 - The Manchester Review
Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries Editorial Róisín Leggett Bohan, 3 poems Livi Michael, ‘Signs’ Immanuel Misfud, ‘Rue Garenne’ (trans. Ruth Ward) Cormac Culkeen, ‘My Dog Ate the Sun’ Laur...
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July 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Delighted to have three new poems featured in this gorgeous issue. Wholehearted thanks to the editors of @manchesterreview.bsky.social ⚡️
I'm so grateful to the wonderful poet and editor @annemarienichurreain for including two of my poems in this gorgeous issue of @stingingfly 🤍
'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' began in @ulstermuseum while attending @seamusheaneycentre summer school. 🤍
'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' began in @ulstermuseum while attending @seamusheaneycentre summer school. 🤍
June 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I'm so grateful to the wonderful poet and editor @annemarienichurreain for including two of my poems in this gorgeous issue of @stingingfly 🤍
'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' began in @ulstermuseum while attending @seamusheaneycentre summer school. 🤍
'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' began in @ulstermuseum while attending @seamusheaneycentre summer school. 🤍
Come celebrate with us tonight!
Waterstones Cork, 6:30pm.
Would love to see you there!
🩶🤍🩶
Waterstones Cork, 6:30pm.
Would love to see you there!
🩶🤍🩶
May 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Come celebrate with us tonight!
Waterstones Cork, 6:30pm.
Would love to see you there!
🩶🤍🩶
Waterstones Cork, 6:30pm.
Would love to see you there!
🩶🤍🩶
'Beginnings Over and Over' are present in every moment. How nourishing it was to read with poetry pals @ilfdublin.bsky.social in celebration of this gorgeous book, holistically edited @leeannequinn.bsky.social
Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶
Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶
May 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
'Beginnings Over and Over' are present in every moment. How nourishing it was to read with poetry pals @ilfdublin.bsky.social in celebration of this gorgeous book, holistically edited @leeannequinn.bsky.social
Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶
Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶
Celebrate our Cork launch at Waterstones on Tuesday the 27th of May at 6:30pm. We'd love to see you there! 🩶 Introductions by the effervescent @Leeanne_Quinn. Readings by Cal O'Reilly, Mai Ishikawa, and Róisín Leggett Bohan 🩶
May 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Celebrate our Cork launch at Waterstones on Tuesday the 27th of May at 6:30pm. We'd love to see you there! 🩶 Introductions by the effervescent @Leeanne_Quinn. Readings by Cal O'Reilly, Mai Ishikawa, and Róisín Leggett Bohan 🩶
Reposted by Róisín Leggett Bohan
This poem is just stunning. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Poetry Day Ireland 2025: We Carried May by Róisín Leggett Bohan
For Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day...
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May 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This poem is just stunning. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Oh, look, it's a poem! Thank you to Aerial, the cat who accompanied me on my nightwalks in The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in May 2023. Small things keep on giving ✨️
We Carried May by Róisín Leggett Bohan
@leggettbohan.bsky.social is from Cork. She is co-founder of HOWL New Irish Writing. Her work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Magma, Aesthetica and The Pomegranate London, among others.
Find #PoetryDayIRL Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social DARTs!
@leggettbohan.bsky.social is from Cork. She is co-founder of HOWL New Irish Writing. Her work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Magma, Aesthetica and The Pomegranate London, among others.
Find #PoetryDayIRL Poems across @irishrail.bsky.social DARTs!
April 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oh, look, it's a poem! Thank you to Aerial, the cat who accompanied me on my nightwalks in The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in May 2023. Small things keep on giving ✨️
I would highly recommend Jennifer Horgan's exquisite collection, 'Care', published @doirepress.bsky.social
Her work is a joy to witness 🩶
Her work is a joy to witness 🩶
Poet @jenniferhorgan.bsky.social will be at WCLF on 11 July in a @doirepress.bsky.social event alongside Claire Hennessy @chennessybooks.bsky.social. Lovely to see Jennifer in Beginner's Pluck column @irishexaminer.bsky.social
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🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/LFProgramme
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Beginner's pluck: Teacher and newspaper columnist Jennifer Horgan
Jennifer has been writing poetry since the age of 10 and now brings us her first collection of poems
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April 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I would highly recommend Jennifer Horgan's exquisite collection, 'Care', published @doirepress.bsky.social
Her work is a joy to witness 🩶
Her work is a joy to witness 🩶
Thrilled to have our book 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland '(Dedalus Press) featured on the Books for Breakfast podcast. Huge thanks to Mary O' Donnell, Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr for their close reading and praise.🩶⚡️🩶
www.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...
77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetry - Books for Breakfast
On this episode we talk to poet novelist and critic Mary O’Donnell about Mary O’Malley’s The Shark Nursery, Patrick Holloway’s The Language of Remembering, ! All’ ARME /? by Eilish Martin a...
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April 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Thrilled to have our book 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland '(Dedalus Press) featured on the Books for Breakfast podcast. Huge thanks to Mary O' Donnell, Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr for their close reading and praise.🩶⚡️🩶
www.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1162427/epis...
Excited to be reading at @ilfdublin.bsky.social with poetry pals of 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' #dedaluspress and the ever-giving @leeanne_quinn 🩶
Love to see you there! 💛✨️💛
Love to see you there! 💛✨️💛
April 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Excited to be reading at @ilfdublin.bsky.social with poetry pals of 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' #dedaluspress and the ever-giving @leeanne_quinn 🩶
Love to see you there! 💛✨️💛
Love to see you there! 💛✨️💛
Massive joy to have two poems, 'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' and 'My Sister Glued Jesus' in this forthcoming issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social 🩶
Huge grá to Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin for seeing my work.
Stunning cover by photographer Ronan McCall and designer Eimear Gavin.
Huge grá to Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin for seeing my work.
Stunning cover by photographer Ronan McCall and designer Eimear Gavin.
April 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Massive joy to have two poems, 'Missing my Father with Caravaggio in Belfast' and 'My Sister Glued Jesus' in this forthcoming issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social 🩶
Huge grá to Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin for seeing my work.
Stunning cover by photographer Ronan McCall and designer Eimear Gavin.
Huge grá to Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin for seeing my work.
Stunning cover by photographer Ronan McCall and designer Eimear Gavin.
Reposted by Róisín Leggett Bohan
"...He was post-surgery, morphined up, my sister and I on night shift swabbing his nightmares."
This poem confronts its unsettling subject matter on its own, harrowing ground. It chases up the spine & lodges in the heart & mind the way the last five lines of Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" do. Brilliant.
This poem confronts its unsettling subject matter on its own, harrowing ground. It chases up the spine & lodges in the heart & mind the way the last five lines of Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" do. Brilliant.
My poem '04 C 14598' was longlisted for @thepoetrysociety National Poetry Competition from 21,000 entries. I am wholeheartedly grateful to the judges, Stephen Sexton, @romalynante & John McAuliffe ⚡️
This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress
This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress
April 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"...He was post-surgery, morphined up, my sister and I on night shift swabbing his nightmares."
This poem confronts its unsettling subject matter on its own, harrowing ground. It chases up the spine & lodges in the heart & mind the way the last five lines of Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" do. Brilliant.
This poem confronts its unsettling subject matter on its own, harrowing ground. It chases up the spine & lodges in the heart & mind the way the last five lines of Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" do. Brilliant.
My poem '04 C 14598' was longlisted for @thepoetrysociety National Poetry Competition from 21,000 entries. I am wholeheartedly grateful to the judges, Stephen Sexton, @romalynante & John McAuliffe ⚡️
This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress
This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My poem '04 C 14598' was longlisted for @thepoetrysociety National Poetry Competition from 21,000 entries. I am wholeheartedly grateful to the judges, Stephen Sexton, @romalynante & John McAuliffe ⚡️
This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress
This poem appears in 'Beginnings Over and Over:Four New Poets from Ireland' @dedaluspress
I'm taking the train!
Thrilled to have one of my poems selected to celebrate Poetry Day. Immense gratitude to @poetryireland.bsky.social 🩶
Thrilled to have one of my poems selected to celebrate Poetry Day. Immense gratitude to @poetryireland.bsky.social 🩶
🎉 Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce 12 poems will feature across the Irish Rail network and in libraries nationwide to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland on 1st May 2025.
🌞 Discover the #PoetryDayIRL Poems: www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/d...
@irishrail.bsky.social #MayDay #PublicPoetry
🌞 Discover the #PoetryDayIRL Poems: www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/d...
@irishrail.bsky.social #MayDay #PublicPoetry
April 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I'm taking the train!
Thrilled to have one of my poems selected to celebrate Poetry Day. Immense gratitude to @poetryireland.bsky.social 🩶
Thrilled to have one of my poems selected to celebrate Poetry Day. Immense gratitude to @poetryireland.bsky.social 🩶
Reposted by Róisín Leggett Bohan
We're delighted to nominate Breda Spaight, Patrick Cotter, and David Nash for the Forward Single Poem Prize for their poems published in HOWL 24.
Wishing them the best of luck 🍀
Wishing them the best of luck 🍀
March 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We're delighted to nominate Breda Spaight, Patrick Cotter, and David Nash for the Forward Single Poem Prize for their poems published in HOWL 24.
Wishing them the best of luck 🍀
Wishing them the best of luck 🍀
Reposted by Róisín Leggett Bohan
I'm thrilled that a poem of mine, published in HOWL New Irish Writing, has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Grateful to HOWL for the nomination, and good luck to us all!
We're delighted to nominate Breda Spaight, Patrick Cotter, and David Nash for the Forward Single Poem Prize for their poems published in HOWL 24.
Wishing them the best of luck 🍀
Wishing them the best of luck 🍀
March 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I'm thrilled that a poem of mine, published in HOWL New Irish Writing, has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Grateful to HOWL for the nomination, and good luck to us all!
A lovely launch for The Stony Thursday Book in Limerick. Huge gratitude to #VictoriaKennefick 🩷
Thank you to #LimerickArts.
So nourishing to hear many poetry pals read their work! 🩶
Thank you to #LimerickArts.
So nourishing to hear many poetry pals read their work! 🩶
March 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A lovely launch for The Stony Thursday Book in Limerick. Huge gratitude to #VictoriaKennefick 🩷
Thank you to #LimerickArts.
So nourishing to hear many poetry pals read their work! 🩶
Thank you to #LimerickArts.
So nourishing to hear many poetry pals read their work! 🩶
Lovely to share this list with such a plethora of fine poets 🩶
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Lovely to share this list with such a plethora of fine poets 🩶
Oh look! A lovely book.
Thrilled to be sharing pages with this fine line-up. Huge thanks to @leeannequin.bsky.social and Dedalus press.
You can pre-order it here:
www.dedaluspress.com/product/begi...
Thrilled to be sharing pages with this fine line-up. Huge thanks to @leeannequin.bsky.social and Dedalus press.
You can pre-order it here:
www.dedaluspress.com/product/begi...
March 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Oh look! A lovely book.
Thrilled to be sharing pages with this fine line-up. Huge thanks to @leeannequin.bsky.social and Dedalus press.
You can pre-order it here:
www.dedaluspress.com/product/begi...
Thrilled to be sharing pages with this fine line-up. Huge thanks to @leeannequin.bsky.social and Dedalus press.
You can pre-order it here:
www.dedaluspress.com/product/begi...