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Sam Furlong
@samfurlong.bsky.social
poems & stories mostly
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Next week we're launching Crowd Work by @samfurlong.bsky.social on Thursday, May 15th at 7:00 pm in the Ulster University Art Gallery, Block BC, York Street, Belfast City Campus.

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Launch: CROWD WORK, Sam Furlong
Join Macha Press to celebrate the publication of CROWD WORK, with reading by Dublin poet Sam Furlong. Free, advance tickets recommended.
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May 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Sam Furlong
Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving
Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can’t Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving
Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha has just been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his essays about the Palestinian experience in the face of the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on Gaza. He...
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May 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
locking myself in my room until i have trained myself not to reply to "i pre-ordered your book" with "i hope it's good!"
May 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
loving sowing (writing longhand) hating reaping (typing it up)
April 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
excited to be launched
BELFAST LAUNCH! We're so excited to launch Crowd Work by @samfurlong.bsky.social on Thursday, May 15th at 7:00 pm in the Ulster University Art Gallery, Block BC, York Street, Belfast City Campus.

Book your free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-cro...
April 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Am i wrong that there's a distinctly fashy vibe off the 2025 most popular boys names
April 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
going to the cafe before work to write the work of my life this three tweet long bluesky post you bought my book now it is time to heart my social media copy
April 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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remembering when the far right were setting up actual roadblocks and checkpoints, asking to see people's identification etc, and the gardaí were just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gardai forcibly removing mothers protesting against genocide at the Dáil.
March 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Very very excited for these conversations at the Irish Writers' Center! I'll be discussing poetry with Stephen Sexton in May, and editing with Emily Cooper and Lisa McInerney in September!

Tickets for Niamh Campbells' talk available now ! ! Others: soon (all 6 weeks in advance)
March 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Sam Furlong
Pick up a programme from @cuirtfestival.bsky.social and don't miss this event with Eilish Martin and @samfurlong.bsky.social. Special thanks again to Charlie Byrne's Bookshop and @poetryireland.bsky.social

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March 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Reposted by Sam Furlong
Issue Six of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring essays and fiction from Emily Iseult Duggan, Máiréad Enright (@maireadenright.bsky.social), Laura Fitzgerald, Sam Furlong (@samfurlong.bsky.social), Kerry Mahony, Kathy Stevens (@kathystevens91.bsky.social) and Paul Whyte.🐷 Link 👇
March 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
very excited about this!!
Join us at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social for an evening featuring Macha Press poets Eilish Martin & @samfurlong.bsky.social! 09th April, Charlie Byrne's Bookshop:

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February 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Sam Furlong
CROWD WORK is the venturous debut by writer Sam Furlong. With candour, its poems detail experiences of a body’s living, materialities it inhabits and shares with bodies and other species.

PREORDER NOW:
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February 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I wrote a book and it's out in may
Macha Press is delighted to announce the publication of CROWD WORK by Dublin writer Sam Furlong in May of this year.

Radically amatory, this debut performs the body’s wanton poetries. Re-making forms, it renders explicit the means by which ‘Through breaking, we are made.’

photo: Kate Lawlor
January 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Delighted to be starting as the poetry editor with FWG.

The group have been so huge for my artistic development over the past year, and are an amazing resource for all emerging writers. Hyped!
January 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Please donate to Carina's GoFundMe so that she can pay for legal fees to stay in Ireland, a country she has lived in for 3 years and made a home in. Carina is one of the best people I know and deserves your generosity.
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Donate to Help Carina stay in Ireland, organized by Carina Gabilondo
Hi, my name’s Carina Gabilondo, and I need your help. I am 25 and I’m from Mexico Ci… Carina Gabilondo needs your support for Help Carina stay in Ireland
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January 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
the great thing about bluesky is i keep forgetting to add it to my social media block, so can access it when i'm trying to focus, amazing
January 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Reposted by Sam Furlong
Macha Press totes - colophon design by @sophieherx, printed by hand at our Belfast workspace & available as part of our supporter subscription at www.machapress.com/subscription...
January 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
love logging on here once a week, reading 3 poems and logging off, merry christmas
December 24, 2024 at 10:52 PM