Trish Bennett
@trishbennettwriter.bsky.social
Irish writer, performer, keeper of creatures, Leitrim/Fermanagh border. Roscommon New Writing Award ‘22, ACNI Support ‘22/23. Trishbennettwriter.com. Debut Collection-Stench, Arlen House at https://www.kennys.ie/shop/stench-bennett-trish-9781851323302-1
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Ep 02: An Unexpected Parcel
Guest Writer: Edel Coffey. New writing by: Bebe Ashley, Trish Bennet, Jennifer Lindsay Gray.
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My poem, ‘A Dream of One More Outing’, dedicated to my wonderful mother-in-law, Moira, starts at 9.45 approx. I’ve tried to capture what a trailblazer she was. I’m thrilled that Zöe and Edel ‘got’ what I was trying to say. Thanks for selecting my piece.
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I’ve always enjoyed his book reviews, but this one made me cry. Thank you Aidy. I owe ya a pint or ten…
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#Fermanagh #Leitrim #Irishpoetry
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#Fermanagh #Leitrim #Irishpoetry
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Stench by Trish Bennett — BookShelfDiscovery
‘Stench’ is the debut collection from Fermanagh based Poet Trish Bennett. Very much rooted in the border hinterlands, these poems are full of humour, vigour and poignancy.
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August 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I’ve always enjoyed his book reviews, but this one made me cry. Thank you Aidy. I owe ya a pint or ten…
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
#Fermanagh #Leitrim #Irishpoetry
www.bookshelfdiscovery.com/books/stench...
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
#Fermanagh #Leitrim #Irishpoetry
www.bookshelfdiscovery.com/books/stench...
My poem, ‘A Dream of One More Outing’, dedicated to my wonderful mother-in-law, Moira, starts at 9.45 approx. I’ve tried to capture what a trailblazer she was. I’m thrilled that Zöe and Edel ‘got’ what I was trying to say. Thanks for selecting my piece.
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
Ep 02: An Unexpected Parcel
Guest Writer: Edel Coffey. New writing by: Bebe Ashley, Trish Bennet, Jennifer Lindsay Gray.
www.rte.ie
June 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My poem, ‘A Dream of One More Outing’, dedicated to my wonderful mother-in-law, Moira, starts at 9.45 approx. I’ve tried to capture what a trailblazer she was. I’m thrilled that Zöe and Edel ‘got’ what I was trying to say. Thanks for selecting my piece.
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
Sunday Night, 1st June, RTÉ Radio 1, 7.30pm
My gratitude to Edel Coffey and Zöe for this amazing opportunity. This was written during a stint at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre earlier this year. Last photo is my high tech recording studio aka the hot press, or airing cupboard if you’ve notions.
My gratitude to Edel Coffey and Zöe for this amazing opportunity. This was written during a stint at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre earlier this year. Last photo is my high tech recording studio aka the hot press, or airing cupboard if you’ve notions.
May 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sunday Night, 1st June, RTÉ Radio 1, 7.30pm
My gratitude to Edel Coffey and Zöe for this amazing opportunity. This was written during a stint at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre earlier this year. Last photo is my high tech recording studio aka the hot press, or airing cupboard if you’ve notions.
My gratitude to Edel Coffey and Zöe for this amazing opportunity. This was written during a stint at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre earlier this year. Last photo is my high tech recording studio aka the hot press, or airing cupboard if you’ve notions.
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I've just signed this petition calling for a domestic abuse register to be put in place in Ireland. This could save lives – will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
Protect Lives – Create Jennie’s Law: A Domestic Abuse Register for Ireland
I've just signed this petition calling for a domestic abuse register to be put in place in Ireland. This could save lives – will you sign too?
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April 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I've just signed this petition calling for a domestic abuse register to be put in place in Ireland. This could save lives – will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
There’s a plethora of poets in this wonderful podcast. It can be listened on many platforms. I’m in there, talking about how the stunning beauty of Lough Erne gives me a lift in ‘Sweet Spot’. Thanks to the mighty Damien Donnelly for including me. #poetrydayireland #fermanagh
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@arlenhouse.bsky.social
May Storm with @poetryireland.bsky.social
32 Poets 32 Counties 32 Poets
Meet our 32 Poets at the blog
eatthestorms.com/2025/04/30/m...
Watch the trailer on Youtube
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Listen to the podcast on most platforms including Apple
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32 Poets 32 Counties 32 Poets
Meet our 32 Poets at the blog
eatthestorms.com/2025/04/30/m...
Watch the trailer on Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U27v...
Listen to the podcast on most platforms including Apple
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
May Storm – Poetry Day Ireland 2025 on Eat the Storms
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, OverCast, Player FM, Radio Public, PocketCast, CastBox, iTunes, Podbean, Podcast Addicts, Amazon Podcasts, You Tube and many more plat…
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May 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There’s a plethora of poets in this wonderful podcast. It can be listened on many platforms. I’m in there, talking about how the stunning beauty of Lough Erne gives me a lift in ‘Sweet Spot’. Thanks to the mighty Damien Donnelly for including me. #poetrydayireland #fermanagh
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
@arlenhouse.bsky.social
There’s a plethora of poets in this wonderful podcast. It can be listened on many platforms. I’m in there, talking about how the stunning beauty of Lough Erne gives me a lift in ‘Sweet Spot’. Thanks to the mighty Damien Donnelly for including me. #poetrydayireland #fermanagh @arlenhouse.bsky.social
32 Poets 32 Poems 32 counties
Our own May Storm has arrived, the podcast is celebrating Poetry Day Ireland, thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social by hosting a special episode (on most platforms) including Spotify, Podbean, PocketCasts, Amazon Music ☘️
Spotify link…
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Our own May Storm has arrived, the podcast is celebrating Poetry Day Ireland, thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social by hosting a special episode (on most platforms) including Spotify, Podbean, PocketCasts, Amazon Music ☘️
Spotify link…
open.spotify.com/episode/4U9R...
May Storm, A Poetry Day Ireland 2025 celebration on Eat the Storms
Eat The Storms · Episode
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May 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
There’s a plethora of poets in this wonderful podcast. It can be listened on many platforms. I’m in there, talking about how the stunning beauty of Lough Erne gives me a lift in ‘Sweet Spot’. Thanks to the mighty Damien Donnelly for including me. #poetrydayireland #fermanagh @arlenhouse.bsky.social
Thanks to the wonderful Damien D! X
Our 16th poet for #PoetryDayIRL on the #poetry #podcast is @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social for Fermanagh
Trish is an award-winning writer & performer. Her debut collection is ‘Stench’ (Arlen House, 2024)
Tune in 1 May
32 poets, 32 poems, 32 poems
@poetryireland.bsky.social
On most platforms
Trish is an award-winning writer & performer. Her debut collection is ‘Stench’ (Arlen House, 2024)
Tune in 1 May
32 poets, 32 poems, 32 poems
@poetryireland.bsky.social
On most platforms
April 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thanks to the wonderful Damien D! X
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Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
March 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist.
Support local, not the billionaires.
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My son Luke: "I suffered a life-threatening brain injury...and spent five weeks in a coma. I had to retrain my body to do everything, from moving my fingers to walking....With incredible difficulty and determination, I trained myself to write again.
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The Story Behind the Story with Author Luke Beirne of Saint John, NB, Canada.
Discover Great Stories. Guest Authors. Interviews. Short Stories. Wall of War. Vigilantes. Jo Naylor. The Alexanders. Father
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March 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My son Luke: "I suffered a life-threatening brain injury...and spent five weeks in a coma. I had to retrain my body to do everything, from moving my fingers to walking....With incredible difficulty and determination, I trained myself to write again.
allanhudson.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...
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There’s a piece of my mind on the moon! ‘The Stench of Poetry’, the title poem of ‘Stench’, (my debut collection published by @arlenhouse.bsky.social, 2024) is included in the #lunarcodex with the ‘Serenity Archive’, recently landed on the moon. Thanks to @samuelperalta.bsky.social for organising.
March 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
There’s a piece of my mind on the moon! ‘The Stench of Poetry’, the title poem of ‘Stench’, (my debut collection published by @arlenhouse.bsky.social, 2024) is included in the #lunarcodex with the ‘Serenity Archive’, recently landed on the moon. Thanks to @samuelperalta.bsky.social for organising.
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Beautiful
This little poem by Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social is my #lifttothesky with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social today ..... a poem that sits in my phone's 'notes' & has charmed me for over a year now!!!!
February 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Beautiful
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"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else" - Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart
February 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else" - Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart
As rosemantic as I get. I’m missing Himself these days although I’m sure he’s enjoying the peace. 😉#ValentinesDay #Romance
@arlenhouse.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@arlenhouse.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
As rosemantic as I get. I’m missing Himself these days although I’m sure he’s enjoying the peace. 😉#ValentinesDay #Romance
@arlenhouse.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
@arlenhouse.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social
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News & cover reveal!!
Arlen House ‒ Celebrating 50 Years, forthcoming March 2025:
My new poetry collection, *Menagerie*.
"as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings" ‒ Paula Meehan
Cover images #elenaduffart 💚
Arlen House ‒ Celebrating 50 Years, forthcoming March 2025:
My new poetry collection, *Menagerie*.
"as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings" ‒ Paula Meehan
Cover images #elenaduffart 💚
January 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
News & cover reveal!!
Arlen House ‒ Celebrating 50 Years, forthcoming March 2025:
My new poetry collection, *Menagerie*.
"as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings" ‒ Paula Meehan
Cover images #elenaduffart 💚
Arlen House ‒ Celebrating 50 Years, forthcoming March 2025:
My new poetry collection, *Menagerie*.
"as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings" ‒ Paula Meehan
Cover images #elenaduffart 💚
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Important thread on imbalance in the arts re. earnings, career longevity, feasibility of being a creative etc.
Thanks @oisinmcgann.bsky.social
Thanks @oisinmcgann.bsky.social
Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/
January 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Important thread on imbalance in the arts re. earnings, career longevity, feasibility of being a creative etc.
Thanks @oisinmcgann.bsky.social
Thanks @oisinmcgann.bsky.social
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What are you doing Sunday 19th Jan at 2pm? Fancy chilling out while three Turas Press poets read from their #poetry collections at Books Upstairs in Dublin 🙏😉
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An Afternoon with Turas Press | Books Upstairs
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with three Turas Press writers at 2pm on Sunday 19th January. All are welcome to this event, admission is free but please do reserve a place using the booking form b...
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January 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
What are you doing Sunday 19th Jan at 2pm? Fancy chilling out while three Turas Press poets read from their #poetry collections at Books Upstairs in Dublin 🙏😉
booksupstairs.ie/all-events/a...
booksupstairs.ie/all-events/a...
The Northern Lights in full tilt, lifting the spirits on the first night of 2025 in Fermanagh.
January 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Northern Lights in full tilt, lifting the spirits on the first night of 2025 in Fermanagh.
Bad cess to ‘24, glad to see the back of it. 2025 is feeling sunnier already. Wishing you all a productive year, whatever shenanigans yiz are at. Here’s to lifting the spirits in whatever creative way we can. 🥂📚🎨🎭🖼️
January 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Bad cess to ‘24, glad to see the back of it. 2025 is feeling sunnier already. Wishing you all a productive year, whatever shenanigans yiz are at. Here’s to lifting the spirits in whatever creative way we can. 🥂📚🎨🎭🖼️
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’Food Shopping at the Frontier on Christmas Eve’,
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Food Shopping at the Frontier on Christmas Eve - Trish Bennett
YouTube video by Trish Bennett Performance
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December 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM
’Food Shopping at the Frontier on Christmas Eve’,
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‘Food Shopping at the Frontier on Christmas Eve’. Video in comments. Thanks to the wonderful Amy and Paul, from The Bangor Literary Journal for including this madcap poem of mine. All true-ish (ahem) #Fermanagh #Leitrim #Cavan #IrishPoetry @ArlenHouse
December 27, 2024 at 8:59 PM
‘Food Shopping at the Frontier on Christmas Eve’. Video in comments. Thanks to the wonderful Amy and Paul, from The Bangor Literary Journal for including this madcap poem of mine. All true-ish (ahem) #Fermanagh #Leitrim #Cavan #IrishPoetry @ArlenHouse
Hang in there my fellow sufferers, it’ll soon be over. Robins by the talented @muddyfingersmcgurn, photo by myself.
#christmas #robin #fermanagh #leitrim #notafan
#christmas #robin #fermanagh #leitrim #notafan
December 24, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Hang in there my fellow sufferers, it’ll soon be over. Robins by the talented @muddyfingersmcgurn, photo by myself.
#christmas #robin #fermanagh #leitrim #notafan
#christmas #robin #fermanagh #leitrim #notafan
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🎄Final reminder 🎄
If you fancy taking part in our
Christmas at the Storms special episode, I’ll need your audio (up to 5 mins) bio & photo by Tuesday 17 Dec sent to eatthestorms@yahoo.com 🎄
If you fancy taking part in our
Christmas at the Storms special episode, I’ll need your audio (up to 5 mins) bio & photo by Tuesday 17 Dec sent to eatthestorms@yahoo.com 🎄
December 13, 2024 at 1:55 PM
🎄Final reminder 🎄
If you fancy taking part in our
Christmas at the Storms special episode, I’ll need your audio (up to 5 mins) bio & photo by Tuesday 17 Dec sent to eatthestorms@yahoo.com 🎄
If you fancy taking part in our
Christmas at the Storms special episode, I’ll need your audio (up to 5 mins) bio & photo by Tuesday 17 Dec sent to eatthestorms@yahoo.com 🎄
Wonderful writing. 👏👏👏
December 10, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Wonderful writing. 👏👏👏
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Because there are just so many amazing writers and publications in Ireland we had to have a spillover starter pack!
Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/M7713mj
Starter pack II: go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv
Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/M7713mj
Starter pack II: go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv
November 20, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Because there are just so many amazing writers and publications in Ireland we had to have a spillover starter pack!
Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/M7713mj
Starter pack II: go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv
Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/M7713mj
Starter pack II: go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv