S.C. Flynn
@scyflynn.bsky.social
Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025).
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S.C. Flynn
@scyflynn.bsky.social
· May 26
An Ocean Called Hope
From the windswept Famine Trail of Ireland to the starlit skies of the Southern Hemisphere, this collection by S.C. Flynn explores places and the memo...
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It's publication day for my new poetry collection "An Ocean Called Hope" @downingfield.bsky.social
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Some of the replies here belong in the museum of hubris
Ancient philosophy is 50% profound eternal wisdom and 50% that same exact guy declaring with supreme confidence two paragraphs later that pee is stored in the armpit.
Aristotle in his books on nature insisted men have more teeth than women.
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Some of the replies here belong in the museum of hubris
Really pleased to be included in the @renardpress.com anthology, celebrating five years of the prese
#poetry
#poetry
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Really pleased to be included in the @renardpress.com anthology, celebrating five years of the prese
#poetry
#poetry
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Read all about the new issue here. Drops Nov 28th. Interviews, poems, poetry. Last subs day Sunday if you want a print copy on the day of release. #newissue #news #stars #coverreveal
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Rushdie, Holmes and Cabellut Illuminate the new Madrid Review
In the new issue of The Madrid Review, publishing on November 28th, readers will encounter one of the magazine’s most ambitious and wide-ranging editions yet: a celebration of international literature...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Read all about the new issue here. Drops Nov 28th. Interviews, poems, poetry. Last subs day Sunday if you want a print copy on the day of release. #newissue #news #stars #coverreveal
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Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
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Wrong on so many levels…
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Wrong on so many levels…
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Friend walked into a pub in Cork with a huge army greatcoat on, old lad at bar perked up and exclaimed: "COMRADE! WHAT NEWS FROM STALINGRAD!?"
Was in Doyle's once and a lad walked in wearing a black leather jacket, black t-shirt and *tight* black jeans. When he got to his table, one of his mates looked up at him and went "Look, it's Sandy from Grease."
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Friend walked into a pub in Cork with a huge army greatcoat on, old lad at bar perked up and exclaimed: "COMRADE! WHAT NEWS FROM STALINGRAD!?"
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Please performatively read my novel.
My latest novel My Life in Orbit is out now. richardblandford.blogspot.com/2024/03/my-l...
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Please performatively read my novel.
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Sidney Herbert Sime
‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911
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‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911
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November 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sidney Herbert Sime
‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911
archive.org/details/gods...
‘Mung and the Beast of Mung’, from “The Gods of Pegana” by Lord Dunsany, 1911
archive.org/details/gods...
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Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.
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Had a dream in which @minxmarple.bsky.social demanded to meet my parents, who, since being long dead, had to be "conjured" back to life, after which I sent a car to the cemetery to pick them up. When they finally met her, they assumed because of her accent that she was a member of the royal family.👑
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Had a dream in which @minxmarple.bsky.social demanded to meet my parents, who, since being long dead, had to be "conjured" back to life, after which I sent a car to the cemetery to pick them up. When they finally met her, they assumed because of her accent that she was a member of the royal family.👑
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"Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago." "Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter."
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago." "Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter."
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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12 HUNGRY MEN (2025)
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
12 HUNGRY MEN (2025)
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I’m jealous of a volcano’s 700,000 year lie-in.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I’m jealous of a volcano’s 700,000 year lie-in.
He actually does know me!
Thrilled to have a couple of poems in this journal. One called “I Don’t Know S C Flynn” - which is true, but I do follow him (@scyflynn.bsky.social) on BlueSky. As should you all! 😏
Check out our amazing Issue 6 cover art by Lita Cabellut. You know you want in - themadridreview.com/subscriptions
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#arte #art #portada #litacabellut #litmag #subscribenow
November 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
He actually does know me!
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Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
November 5, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
This lovely mag's latest issue launches today at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
Meet the Stormers of Issue V
@scyflynn.bsky.social was born in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are “The Colour of Extinction” (Renard Press, 2024) and “An Ocean Called Hope” (Downingfield Press, 2025).
The Storms is supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
@scyflynn.bsky.social was born in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are “The Colour of Extinction” (Renard Press, 2024) and “An Ocean Called Hope” (Downingfield Press, 2025).
The Storms is supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This lovely mag's latest issue launches today at Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
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I think online friendships can be really profound and meaningful, esp for misfits who may have trouble finding their people irl
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I think online friendships can be really profound and meaningful, esp for misfits who may have trouble finding their people irl
Unfinished Poem
Sandymount Strand, Dublin All this will be washed away by rising sea and frequent storms. Before retreating to self-reliance, I want to find the words to preserve a shrinking world; language is a slender thread that can briefly connect secret lives before fading into silence. Maybe…
Sandymount Strand, Dublin All this will be washed away by rising sea and frequent storms. Before retreating to self-reliance, I want to find the words to preserve a shrinking world; language is a slender thread that can briefly connect secret lives before fading into silence. Maybe…
Unfinished Poem
Sandymount Strand, Dublin All this will be washed away by rising sea and frequent storms. Before retreating to self-reliance, I want to find the words to preserve a shrinking world; language is a slender thread that can briefly connect secret lives before fading into silence. Maybe old words will sink into the sand, become fertile and then rise to give me what I need: new words, even some I do not understand, but not today, I know. I did not have to write this.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Unfinished Poem
Sandymount Strand, Dublin All this will be washed away by rising sea and frequent storms. Before retreating to self-reliance, I want to find the words to preserve a shrinking world; language is a slender thread that can briefly connect secret lives before fading into silence. Maybe…
Sandymount Strand, Dublin All this will be washed away by rising sea and frequent storms. Before retreating to self-reliance, I want to find the words to preserve a shrinking world; language is a slender thread that can briefly connect secret lives before fading into silence. Maybe…
Ayurveda
Nothing real will ever be enough. The ancient dream of immortality has fluttered against unbreakable glass for a thousand lifetimes without getting in; countless hopes lie buried in separate graves, and yet it still persists. Humanity, always caught in the grip of the present when it…
Nothing real will ever be enough. The ancient dream of immortality has fluttered against unbreakable glass for a thousand lifetimes without getting in; countless hopes lie buried in separate graves, and yet it still persists. Humanity, always caught in the grip of the present when it…
Ayurveda
Nothing real will ever be enough. The ancient dream of immortality has fluttered against unbreakable glass for a thousand lifetimes without getting in; countless hopes lie buried in separate graves, and yet it still persists. Humanity, always caught in the grip of the present when it really desires forever, wants age to be practice for the future, a deep black mouth with a throat of light, the unformed songs of endless years to come masking the atonal slash of nothingness. Published in The Storms
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October 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ayurveda
Nothing real will ever be enough. The ancient dream of immortality has fluttered against unbreakable glass for a thousand lifetimes without getting in; countless hopes lie buried in separate graves, and yet it still persists. Humanity, always caught in the grip of the present when it…
Nothing real will ever be enough. The ancient dream of immortality has fluttered against unbreakable glass for a thousand lifetimes without getting in; countless hopes lie buried in separate graves, and yet it still persists. Humanity, always caught in the grip of the present when it…
My poem "Ayurveda" just published in The @eatthestorms.com; a lovely edition with very nice artwork!
#poetry
#poetry
October 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My poem "Ayurveda" just published in The @eatthestorms.com; a lovely edition with very nice artwork!
#poetry
#poetry
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