Maeve O'Sullivan
@maevedos.bsky.social
Dublin-based poet, educator and mentor who also likes to sing & travel. My sixth collection of poetry is ‘Where All Ladders Start’ (Alba Publishing, Nov 2024). Haiku nerd / ninja. Newly revamped website (incl. book info & sales): www.maeveosullivan.com
I was there yesterday evening too, it was great! I feel sorry for the organisers today, with the foul weather in Dublin #orangewarning
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I was there yesterday evening too, it was great! I feel sorry for the organisers today, with the foul weather in Dublin #orangewarning
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All Saints’ Day:
a small Superman costume
on the barrio balcony
Medellín, Colombia, 2016
From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba)
#senryusunday
a small Superman costume
on the barrio balcony
Medellín, Colombia, 2016
From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba)
#senryusunday
a young boy in a blue superman costume flexes his muscles
ALT: a young boy in a blue superman costume flexes his muscles
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November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
All Saints’ Day:
a small Superman costume
on the barrio balcony
Medellín, Colombia, 2016
From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba)
#senryusunday
a small Superman costume
on the barrio balcony
Medellín, Colombia, 2016
From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba)
#senryusunday
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
Birdsong is something that can be a vital part of your well-being for years without you noticing or appreciating it, like having intact internal organs.
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Birdsong is something that can be a vital part of your well-being for years without you noticing or appreciating it, like having intact internal organs.
All Saints’ Day:
a small Superman costume
on the barrio balcony
Medellín, Colombia, 2016
From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba)
#senryusunday
a small Superman costume
on the barrio balcony
Medellín, Colombia, 2016
From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba)
#senryusunday
a young boy in a blue superman costume flexes his muscles
ALT: a young boy in a blue superman costume flexes his muscles
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
All Saints’ Day:
a small Superman costume
on the barrio balcony
Medellín, Colombia, 2016
From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba)
#senryusunday
a small Superman costume
on the barrio balcony
Medellín, Colombia, 2016
From ‘Elsewhere’ (2017, Alba)
#senryusunday
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep
74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep
In the graduate department where I once taught freshmen and sophomores the rudiments of college English, it became common practice to include Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus on many an Intro to Lit syl...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️
Maeve O'Sullivan’s poetry & haikai have been widely published, anthologised & translated. She has six collections, the latest being Where All Ladders Start (2024). She leads workshops in haiku.
The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
Maeve O'Sullivan’s poetry & haikai have been widely published, anthologised & translated. She has six collections, the latest being Where All Ladders Start (2024). She leads workshops in haiku.
The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️
Maeve O'Sullivan’s poetry & haikai have been widely published, anthologised & translated. She has six collections, the latest being Where All Ladders Start (2024). She leads workshops in haiku.
The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
Maeve O'Sullivan’s poetry & haikai have been widely published, anthologised & translated. She has six collections, the latest being Where All Ladders Start (2024). She leads workshops in haiku.
The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
cousins' meet-up --
getting used to being
the older generation
'Wasp on the Prayer Flag', Alba Publishing, 2021 #senryusunday
This has been chosen for the upcoming week’s reader consideration and commentaries at The Haiku Foundation's re:Virals feature: thehaikufoundation.org/revirals-526/
getting used to being
the older generation
'Wasp on the Prayer Flag', Alba Publishing, 2021 #senryusunday
This has been chosen for the upcoming week’s reader consideration and commentaries at The Haiku Foundation's re:Virals feature: thehaikufoundation.org/revirals-526/
re:Virals - The Haiku Foundation's weekly commentary feature
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October 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
cousins' meet-up --
getting used to being
the older generation
'Wasp on the Prayer Flag', Alba Publishing, 2021 #senryusunday
This has been chosen for the upcoming week’s reader consideration and commentaries at The Haiku Foundation's re:Virals feature: thehaikufoundation.org/revirals-526/
getting used to being
the older generation
'Wasp on the Prayer Flag', Alba Publishing, 2021 #senryusunday
This has been chosen for the upcoming week’s reader consideration and commentaries at The Haiku Foundation's re:Virals feature: thehaikufoundation.org/revirals-526/
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
I’m thrilled that my last #haiku collection, Wasp on the Prayer Flag (2021, Alba), is Book of the Week on THF. My publisher & I made it available in their digital library, after it went out of print, along with my two other haiku collections, Initial Response (2011) & A Train Hurtles West (2015) 📚
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’m thrilled that my last #haiku collection, Wasp on the Prayer Flag (2021, Alba), is Book of the Week on THF. My publisher & I made it available in their digital library, after it went out of print, along with my two other haiku collections, Initial Response (2011) & A Train Hurtles West (2015) 📚
I’m thrilled that my last #haiku collection, Wasp on the Prayer Flag (2021, Alba), is Book of the Week on THF. My publisher & I made it available in their digital library, after it went out of print, along with my two other haiku collections, Initial Response (2011) & A Train Hurtles West (2015) 📚
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’m thrilled that my last #haiku collection, Wasp on the Prayer Flag (2021, Alba), is Book of the Week on THF. My publisher & I made it available in their digital library, after it went out of print, along with my two other haiku collections, Initial Response (2011) & A Train Hurtles West (2015) 📚
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.
dublinsmallpressfair.com
dublinsmallpressfair.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
#Dublin City welcoming NFL players and supporters this weekend. We’ve been playing gaelic football matches in the US since 1886 so I guess it’s our turn to host now.
September 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#Dublin City welcoming NFL players and supporters this weekend. We’ve been playing gaelic football matches in the US since 1886 so I guess it’s our turn to host now.
#Dublin City welcoming NFL players and supporters this weekend. We’ve been playing gaelic football matches in the US since 1886 so I guess it’s our turn to host now.
September 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#Dublin City welcoming NFL players and supporters this weekend. We’ve been playing gaelic football matches in the US since 1886 so I guess it’s our turn to host now.
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
The irony of a show full of people wanting to win a house deposit being murdered one by one by an estate agent #TraitorsIRL
September 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The irony of a show full of people wanting to win a house deposit being murdered one by one by an estate agent #TraitorsIRL
things I’d forgotten
about my old friend —
obituary
Written in September 2019 and published in Femku journal in October 2019. #senryusunday
about my old friend —
obituary
Written in September 2019 and published in Femku journal in October 2019. #senryusunday
September 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
things I’d forgotten
about my old friend —
obituary
Written in September 2019 and published in Femku journal in October 2019. #senryusunday
about my old friend —
obituary
Written in September 2019 and published in Femku journal in October 2019. #senryusunday
@iamagnat.bsky.social Thanks for the RT, Clodagh!
September 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
@iamagnat.bsky.social Thanks for the RT, Clodagh!
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
Recent Releases... any on your reading list? All on www.kennys.ie
September 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Recent Releases... any on your reading list? All on www.kennys.ie
Here’s my offering for this week’s #senryusunday, in two languages! I wrote it around a year ago. A contrast to tonight’s lunar eclipse! 🌒
September 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Here’s my offering for this week’s #senryusunday, in two languages! I wrote it around a year ago. A contrast to tonight’s lunar eclipse! 🌒
Here's a monoku that I wrote four years ago this month:
'bank holiday black salt darkening cucumber slices'. It took three years to find a home but was eventually published in The Pan Haiku Review Issue 3, July 2024. #senryusunday
'bank holiday black salt darkening cucumber slices'. It took three years to find a home but was eventually published in The Pan Haiku Review Issue 3, July 2024. #senryusunday
a person is cutting a cucumber on a wooden cutting board with the word yum below them
ALT: a person is cutting a cucumber on a wooden cutting board with the word yum below them
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August 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Here's a monoku that I wrote four years ago this month:
'bank holiday black salt darkening cucumber slices'. It took three years to find a home but was eventually published in The Pan Haiku Review Issue 3, July 2024. #senryusunday
'bank holiday black salt darkening cucumber slices'. It took three years to find a home but was eventually published in The Pan Haiku Review Issue 3, July 2024. #senryusunday
Ten years ago, my sibs and I cleared & sold our family home, a year after our Mum's death (our Dad had pre-deceased her). I found letting go of the garden as hard as letting go of the house. This was published in Blithe Spirit. #senryusunday
childhood swing
long gone from here
- wild mushrooms
childhood swing
long gone from here
- wild mushrooms
a baby is sitting on a swing in a field
ALT: a baby is sitting on a swing in a field
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August 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Ten years ago, my sibs and I cleared & sold our family home, a year after our Mum's death (our Dad had pre-deceased her). I found letting go of the garden as hard as letting go of the house. This was published in Blithe Spirit. #senryusunday
childhood swing
long gone from here
- wild mushrooms
childhood swing
long gone from here
- wild mushrooms
Reposted by Maeve O'Sullivan
"My iPhone has deduced that I have a new partner. Ever since he and I took that trip to Paris after the final Covid lockdown, it’s been presenting me with automatic slideshows"
Wonderful haibun from @maevedos.bsky.social. Love the light humour in this:
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/OSull...
Wonderful haibun from @maevedos.bsky.social. Love the light humour in this:
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/OSull...
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Maeve O’Sullivan: Artificial Intelligence
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August 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"My iPhone has deduced that I have a new partner. Ever since he and I took that trip to Paris after the final Covid lockdown, it’s been presenting me with automatic slideshows"
Wonderful haibun from @maevedos.bsky.social. Love the light humour in this:
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/OSull...
Wonderful haibun from @maevedos.bsky.social. Love the light humour in this:
www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ29/OSull...
Here’s a wee poem I wrote two years ago this month, in the marvellous Majestic Café in the beautiful city of Porto in Northern Portugal. ☕️ 🍰 #senryusunday
August 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Here’s a wee poem I wrote two years ago this month, in the marvellous Majestic Café in the beautiful city of Porto in Northern Portugal. ☕️ 🍰 #senryusunday
Fantastic gig by the legendary Mick Hanly in Small Changes in #Inchicore last night. My friend Ursula and I got to chat to him afterwards, and reminisce about gigs of his that we’d attended in the 1990s in #Dublin City. He’s still in top form! 👌🏻
August 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Fantastic gig by the legendary Mick Hanly in Small Changes in #Inchicore last night. My friend Ursula and I got to chat to him afterwards, and reminisce about gigs of his that we’d attended in the 1990s in #Dublin City. He’s still in top form! 👌🏻