Ian Irwin
@mrirwin.bsky.social
Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poet 2022.
Published in Poetry Review, Propel, Alchemy Spoon, Outcrop, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, Trasna.
Photographer.
Published in Poetry Review, Propel, Alchemy Spoon, Outcrop, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, Trasna.
Photographer.
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Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.
August 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.
Delighted to have been shortlisted by @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social for their debut chapbook competition 🙏🏻🦊⭐️
We have our first list of shortlistees for our debut chapbook competition! Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to Bridgette James, @cerimair.bsky.social, Nick Currass, @mrirwin.bsky.social, Angela Cheveau, @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social, June Wentland, Nadia Yahlom, Victoria Punch...
July 25, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Delighted to have been shortlisted by @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social for their debut chapbook competition 🙏🏻🦊⭐️
on the mic @rtbspokenword.com last week...
a brilliant event with quality open mic and a privilege to share the feature spot with Kaycee Hill
a brilliant event with quality open mic and a privilege to share the feature spot with Kaycee Hill
July 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
on the mic @rtbspokenword.com last week...
a brilliant event with quality open mic and a privilege to share the feature spot with Kaycee Hill
a brilliant event with quality open mic and a privilege to share the feature spot with Kaycee Hill
Come and see myself and Kaycee Hill perform for @rtbspokenword.com next Tuesday 15th July
tickets available here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the...
tickets available here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the...
July 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Come and see myself and Kaycee Hill perform for @rtbspokenword.com next Tuesday 15th July
tickets available here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the...
tickets available here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the...
Fady Joudah at Bristol Folk House last night with Sabrin Hasbun as part of Awraq Festival. Challenging, essential conversation and poetry.
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June 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Fady Joudah at Bristol Folk House last night with Sabrin Hasbun as part of Awraq Festival. Challenging, essential conversation and poetry.
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www.outspokenldn.com/shop/fadyjou...
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thank you @echepoetry.bsky.social 🙏🏻
from ‘ready to eat’ by Ian Irwin @mrirwin.bsky.social
read the full poem
www.echepoetry.co.uk/one/irwin
read the full poem
www.echepoetry.co.uk/one/irwin
June 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
thank you @echepoetry.bsky.social 🙏🏻
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Tonight (Saturday 7th) in Bristol and Monday (9th) in Cardiff - an opportunity to hear a reading and conversation with Palestinian poet Fady Joudah www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the... awraqfestival.com/2025-festiva...
Fady Joudah UK tour 2025 - Awraq Festival
(UK Tour)A conversation with Fady Joudah Fady Joudah is the author of […]. He has also published five other collections of poems, including Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is ba...
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June 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Tonight (Saturday 7th) in Bristol and Monday (9th) in Cardiff - an opportunity to hear a reading and conversation with Palestinian poet Fady Joudah www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the... awraqfestival.com/2025-festiva...
'beside my sister, beside the sea' out now in Dust issue 14
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i.m. Clare Chadwick 1969-2013
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@dustpoetry.bsky.social thank you for including my work
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/beside-...
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i.m. Clare Chadwick 1969-2013
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@dustpoetry.bsky.social thank you for including my work
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/beside-...
beside my sister, beside the sea by Ian Irwin
beside my sister, beside the sea I push against the water sure to stay near my own geometrya moment where I’m guarded from light I’m alone and scared; our pastjust air - the bend of space ...
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June 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
'beside my sister, beside the sea' out now in Dust issue 14
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i.m. Clare Chadwick 1969-2013
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@dustpoetry.bsky.social thank you for including my work
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/beside-...
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i.m. Clare Chadwick 1969-2013
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@dustpoetry.bsky.social thank you for including my work
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/beside-...
I love this cover! Excited to have a poem in @dustpoetry.bsky.social issue 14, out Saturday 🌊
COVER REVEAL: We are delighted to have Janet Brooke’s ‘Catching the Wind’ on the cover of Issue 14, which is out on Saturday!
June 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I love this cover! Excited to have a poem in @dustpoetry.bsky.social issue 14, out Saturday 🌊
delighted to be included in the FIRST @echepoetry.bsky.social with amazing poets...
check it out here echepoetry.co.uk/one
check it out here echepoetry.co.uk/one
June 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
delighted to be included in the FIRST @echepoetry.bsky.social with amazing poets...
check it out here echepoetry.co.uk/one
check it out here echepoetry.co.uk/one
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May 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Available now from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social go get it
#PublicationDay 📦📖
NIGHT TERRORS: An #Anthology of the Drunk & Debaucherous has burst onto the scene 🥂
“The night is for all. The night releases all.
This is for you, who wander in the dark.”
- James Rance, Editor 💬
#OrderNow ➡️ acidbathpublishing.com
NIGHT TERRORS: An #Anthology of the Drunk & Debaucherous has burst onto the scene 🥂
“The night is for all. The night releases all.
This is for you, who wander in the dark.”
- James Rance, Editor 💬
#OrderNow ➡️ acidbathpublishing.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Available now from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social go get it
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We're super-excited that the wonderful Richard Scott will be editing Propel Issue 16 (out end-July 2025)!
SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May
If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May
If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
May 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We're super-excited that the wonderful Richard Scott will be editing Propel Issue 16 (out end-July 2025)!
SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May
If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May
If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
you should pre-order NIGHT TERRORS from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social right now!
April 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
you should pre-order NIGHT TERRORS from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social right now!
A joy to be present at @tomsastry.bsky.social book launch and to take this candid little snap @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
Thanks to all who came to @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social Bristol for the sold-out launch of Life expectancy begins to fall by @tomsastry.bsky.social
Thanks to Ian Irwin for this great photo.
Get hold of a copy from your local #IndieBookshop or direct from us: ninearchespress.com/publications...
Thanks to Ian Irwin for this great photo.
Get hold of a copy from your local #IndieBookshop or direct from us: ninearchespress.com/publications...
March 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A joy to be present at @tomsastry.bsky.social book launch and to take this candid little snap @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
Time to preorder Night Terrors from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social including a piece from me 💚
BIG NEWS! Our new #book NIGHT TERRORS: An #Anthology of the Drunk & Debaucherous is available to #PREORDER NOW at www.acidbathpublishing.com 📖💃
"Through works of #poetry, #prose & visual #art, this anthology traverses the boundaries between delight & depravity, lamentation & liberation."
"Through works of #poetry, #prose & visual #art, this anthology traverses the boundaries between delight & depravity, lamentation & liberation."
March 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Time to preorder Night Terrors from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social including a piece from me 💚
Wander the archive! Find my poem! (Summer 2024 p46 👍🏻) Happy #worldpoetryday
Thanks @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Thanks @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Happy World Poetry Day! To celebrate the occasion, we are making The Poetry Review modern archive freely available for the next 24 hours for everyone to enjoy the best in international poetry. Click here to take advantage of this offer! bit.ly/4irqvug 📚
March 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Wander the archive! Find my poem! (Summer 2024 p46 👍🏻) Happy #worldpoetryday
Thanks @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Thanks @poetrysociety.bsky.social
a piece in Carmen et Error from last year...
Thanks to @thebraag.bsky.social for publishing it 🙏🏻
carmenerror.com?page_id=370
Thanks to @thebraag.bsky.social for publishing it 🙏🏻
carmenerror.com?page_id=370
Issue 8.0 - Carmen et Error
cherry chapstickby Jenny Danes walking to the date with katy perry ribboned around my brain in a hopeful bow in the first pub our knees touch & i remind myself that she will be able to feel it that ...
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March 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
a piece in Carmen et Error from last year...
Thanks to @thebraag.bsky.social for publishing it 🙏🏻
carmenerror.com?page_id=370
Thanks to @thebraag.bsky.social for publishing it 🙏🏻
carmenerror.com?page_id=370
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The weekend. Thank you @mrirwin.bsky.social for the photos of Friday @bookhaus.bsky.social ❤️
March 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Tonight @bookhaus.bsky.social 🩷 plus @mrirwin.bsky.social walked me to the station so I didn’t get lost ❤️❤️
March 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Tonight @bookhaus.bsky.social 🩷 plus @mrirwin.bsky.social walked me to the station so I didn’t get lost ❤️❤️
March 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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The team have been working hard to get our next #anthology NIGHT TERRORS ready for #publication later this month 🗓👀
Pre-Orders will be opening very soon... 🙌📖
Thanks to the many #contributors who have been incredibly patient & encouraging over the months. It's nearly here....
Pre-Orders will be opening very soon... 🙌📖
Thanks to the many #contributors who have been incredibly patient & encouraging over the months. It's nearly here....
March 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Love this from the excellent @tomsastry.bsky.social and the brilliant @ninearchespress.bsky.social
'Navigating the Peri-Apocalypse with Radical Self-Care': starting from the premise that 'writing against type generally throws up something interesting' we're given 5 memes & @tomsastry.bsky.social explains their pattern & intentions - at our #blog ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/01/in-c...
In Conversation - Tom Sastry
On writing 'Navigating the Peri-Apocalypse with Radical Self-Care' Tom Sastry's Life expectancy begins to fall is a book of poems about h...
ninearchespress.blogspot.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Love this from the excellent @tomsastry.bsky.social and the brilliant @ninearchespress.bsky.social
You can read a poem of mine in the latest issue of @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social
Thanks to @leiabutler.bsky.social for selecting my piece for inclusion amongst great new writing
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2025...
Thanks to @leiabutler.bsky.social for selecting my piece for inclusion amongst great new writing
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2025...
firmament by Ian Irwin — Full House Literary
www.fullhouseliterary.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You can read a poem of mine in the latest issue of @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social
Thanks to @leiabutler.bsky.social for selecting my piece for inclusion amongst great new writing
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2025...
Thanks to @leiabutler.bsky.social for selecting my piece for inclusion amongst great new writing
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2025...
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Happy Sunday! A new issue of FH just dropped! It's fantastic, even if I do say so myself. The gorgeous piece on the cover is by Shee, and you can read the thread to check out the featured contributors. Access the PDF, listen to recordings, and enjoy ❤️
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue1-2025
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue1-2025
March 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Happy Sunday! A new issue of FH just dropped! It's fantastic, even if I do say so myself. The gorgeous piece on the cover is by Shee, and you can read the thread to check out the featured contributors. Access the PDF, listen to recordings, and enjoy ❤️
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue1-2025
www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue1-2025