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Lucy Holme
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Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
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lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
An honour to be included in this beautiful anthology of poetry! Well done again @jaxxi.bsky.social
carcanet.bsky.social Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Jun 26
This month, we are publishing the third Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology! 📚

www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017519...
The Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology III held in front of a blue watercolour background. The cover is blue with the title written in large pink lettering.
August 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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carcanet.bsky.social
Lucy Holme,
S̶e̶a̶ ̶L̶i̶o̶n̶ Woman Comes o̶n̶ ̶L̶a̶n̶d̶, Swims in Pool and Steals Man's C̶h̶a̶i̶r̶ Lane Today a man watches me swim, waves—says, a couple of points, if I may—so I cock my head to one side and lift my goggles. He says I’m good but that my knees don’t lock, they bend instead. My arms must slice the water just so; my ankles should be doing the work. If I really want to be faster, I should make myself much lighter. In the water, I am like the sea lion I saw on the YouTube short, who climbs the steps to a hotel terrace, carved into a tiny cove, conquers the rocky staircase at top speed, frazzled from supine pirouettes, from chasing sardines all day long. He flips into the pool and glides the length in one graceful arc, soaking terracotta pots and tiles, supplants a tourist on his chair, moving spectacles and papers and sun lotion bottles out of his way. My new coach says I should crouch like a frog on the wall, leap forward underwater until I reach the end of the red buoys. He shakes his head, looks dismayed. I do not breathe correctly. If I can’t learn the correct technique, I’ll sink like a stone. I think of the joy of a swim when you long to clear your head, of the sea lion’s perfect bulk, the weightless ache of a Puglian resort, his strength as he ascends without using the steps. Just like him, my freckled blubber gleams under strip lights and tattered flags, steam blowing from my flaring nostrils as I swim, both eyes wide open. I could be a predator too. Chase jellyfish tissues and rays, tuck in my fore flippers and clap my thighs, heels up, toes down. Even though my body is turned away, I sense the man coming again to offer me some more of his expertise. But like the sea lion, I know best how to manoeuvre my sizeable body in water. My eyes glow red at night. With my third eyelid, I watch him take notes on my performance, while I disrupt the surface calm.
June 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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wendycaitlin.bsky.social
It is people like @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social who help get through this muddled place of doing a creative writing PhD. Thank you, Lucy. You made me feel a lot better 🩷
July 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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wendycaitlin.bsky.social
The skirt still reminds me of the brilliant @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social’s gorgeous books 🩷
July 9, 2025 at 11:37 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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This is amazing thank you @wendycaitlin.bsky.social 💙
wendycaitlin.bsky.social Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · Mar 8
Charity shop skirt which looks v cute with striped t-shirt, trainers and which reminds me of two of my favourite books, both by @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 🩷
March 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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"At the end of the day, I come back to something Ellen Bryant Voigt once told me, that poetry is not the transcription of experience but the transformation of it."

Carl Phillips
March 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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daraghfleming.bsky.social
Incredibly excited to be launching my new collection of essays in Waterstones Cork on April 15th with @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social

I’ve always dreamed of having a launch in my favourite bookshop and now it’s happening. Please mark the date and come along ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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bredaspaight.bsky.social
For those in Cork, this sounds good! Some great writers here. Check it out.
lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · Feb 26
Join me for this workshop as part of brilliant new initiative The Poets Library from Kemi George Simpson starting this Saturday at Cork City Library. Link to sign up below ✍️

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February 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
Join me for this workshop as part of brilliant new initiative The Poets Library from Kemi George Simpson starting this Saturday at Cork City Library. Link to sign up below ✍️

eventbrite.ie/e/the-poets-li…
February 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social
Well this is very exciting news.
lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social · Feb 15
Grateful to be collaborating with one of my favourite poets & human beings @minorroarr.bsky.social
on an exciting project from dynamic new press @dialectwriters.bsky.social
Our pamphlet exploring place, language, travel & connection arrives in September✨

www.dialect.org.uk/blog/vasilik...
February 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
Grateful to be collaborating with one of my favourite poets & human beings @minorroarr.bsky.social
on an exciting project from dynamic new press @dialectwriters.bsky.social
Our pamphlet exploring place, language, travel & connection arrives in September✨

www.dialect.org.uk/blog/vasilik...
February 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
So happy to be able to say I am now represented by Olivia Davies from @unitedagents.bsky.social for my writing 💙

www.unitedagents.co.uk/lucy-holme
January 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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minorroarr.bsky.social
absolutely loving @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social 's 'Blue Diagonals'- stunning writing taking me places both inner and outer with its beauty and insight- thank you 💙💫
January 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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€1,500 gets us to target.

Shares are amazing, donations, for the DSPCA and @unicefireland.bsky.social's Gaza and Lebanon appeal, are amazing, if you can xxx

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December 14, 2024 at 8:58 AM
lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
Looking for recommendations for people’s ‘funniest’ poems. Not limericks or comedy verse but poems that contemplate doubt, grief, tragedy with humour thinking Natalie Shapero, Mark Waldron, Paul Muldoon etc thanks 🙏
December 14, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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seventydys.bsky.social
an expendable character in the comedy of your life

Scott McKendry, ‘All I Want’s My Goose Back’
May 26, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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salenagodden.bsky.social
I hope I die
warmed
by the life
that I tried
to live

— Nikki Giovanni
🖤🙏🏾
December 10, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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I made a starter pack of some poets on Bluesky

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December 7, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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irishlittimes.bsky.social
#irishbooksforchristmas
December 7, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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cristinleach.bsky.social
Love the place where a nonfiction essay collection meets memoir? Buy Lucy’s beautiful book 👇
December 8, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Maybe poems
are just complications & yet you can't resist

a little still life lit with grief & wonder.

—Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
BLANK CANVAS Think of language as some romance with the unreliable, a rabbit hole down the time-lapsed night inside of you. The muse comes or doesn't through the gods you keep close: children, iPhone, birdsong, water. Its not enough to stare off, practice gratitude. More than once a poem has saved your life & so some sense of life debt haunts you. Maybe the universe exists to be contained, continued in these forms & spirals. So what if you confuse arrivals & departures; you keep your note & map apps open to remind you where you are— here: midlife, midnight, suburbs; Anthropocene replete with crisis forecasts & color-coded calendars. Maybe poems are just complications & yet you can't resist a little still life lit with grief & wonder.
September 7, 2024 at 7:15 PM
lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
An extract from ‘A Sprig of a Fruited Olive’ first published in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and part of Blue Diagonals, on the @rte culture page this morning 🔭💙

@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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December 2, 2024 at 8:10 AM
lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
Very happy to have two poems in this brilliant journal thanks to editors John McAuliffe, Paul Knowles and Joe Hunter
manchesterreview.bsky.social Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · Nov 27

The Manchester Review is proud to launch Issue 26 today.

'This new edition is an eclectic goody-bag that showcases a wide range of genres, styles and perspectives and contains writing from well-established, upcoming, and first-time writers.'

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Issue 26 - The Manchester Review
Image: © Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester Editorial Prosper C. Ìféányí, ‘Death Robed in A Gown, So Beautiful, So Majestic’ Alasdair Cannon, ‘Pridesongs’ John Moessner, ‘To the Man Sleep...
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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manchesterreview.bsky.social

The Manchester Review is proud to launch Issue 26 today.

'This new edition is an eclectic goody-bag that showcases a wide range of genres, styles and perspectives and contains writing from well-established, upcoming, and first-time writers.'

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Issue 26 - The Manchester Review
Image: © Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester Editorial Prosper C. Ìféányí, ‘Death Robed in A Gown, So Beautiful, So Majestic’ Alasdair Cannon, ‘Pridesongs’ John Moessner, ‘To the Man Sleep...
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 7:14 AM