Billy Fenton
@billyfenton.bsky.social
Writer. Poetry Ireland Introductions 2025. Work in @rialtopoetry @bansheelit @irishtimes @poetryireland @poetrybusiness @CrannogM @the4facedliar...
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Best wishes to @billyfenton.bsky.social and Ger. So much poetry energy from Waterford at the moment. Good luck 👍
Ger Duffy and Billy Fenton have started a new poetry press, focussing on publishing poetry pamphlets from new and emerging poets. Their first submission window will open from Jan-Feb 2026. The website is www.3pillarspress.com
@3pillarspress
#poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets
@3pillarspress
#poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Best wishes to @billyfenton.bsky.social and Ger. So much poetry energy from Waterford at the moment. Good luck 👍
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Ger Duffy and Billy Fenton have started a new poetry press, focussing on publishing poetry pamphlets from new and emerging poets. Their first submission window will open from Jan-Feb 2026. The website is www.3pillarspress.com
@3pillarspress
#poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets
@3pillarspress
#poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Ger Duffy and Billy Fenton have started a new poetry press, focussing on publishing poetry pamphlets from new and emerging poets. Their first submission window will open from Jan-Feb 2026. The website is www.3pillarspress.com
@3pillarspress
#poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets
@3pillarspress
#poetrypress #poetrypamphlets #poets
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Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents The Poetry Lounge, with readings from Molly Twomey, Caroline Bracken and Bernadette Gallagher.
🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 2-4pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art, O’Connell Street, Waterford
🎟️Free
🔗More info on our site
🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 2-4pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art, O’Connell Street, Waterford
🎟️Free
🔗More info on our site
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents The Poetry Lounge, with readings from Molly Twomey, Caroline Bracken and Bernadette Gallagher.
🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 2-4pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art, O’Connell Street, Waterford
🎟️Free
🔗More info on our site
🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 2-4pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art, O’Connell Street, Waterford
🎟️Free
🔗More info on our site
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Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents a generative Poetry Workshop.
Facilitated by Molly Twomey, Southword Debut Collection winner.
🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 10.30am-12.30pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art
🎟️Admission: €25
🔗 Book via our website.
Facilitated by Molly Twomey, Southword Debut Collection winner.
🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 10.30am-12.30pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art
🎟️Admission: €25
🔗 Book via our website.
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Speak Your Truth in association with Poetry Ireland presents a generative Poetry Workshop.
Facilitated by Molly Twomey, Southword Debut Collection winner.
🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 10.30am-12.30pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art
🎟️Admission: €25
🔗 Book via our website.
Facilitated by Molly Twomey, Southword Debut Collection winner.
🕰️ Sat 29th November
🗓️ 10.30am-12.30pm
⛪ Waterford Gallery of Art
🎟️Admission: €25
🔗 Book via our website.
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Poetry By The Barrow: November Open Mic, presented in association with Poetry Ireland!
With featured poets Jessamine O'Connor, Charlie Gracie and Martin Goldie, as we kiss goodbye to 2025.
📆Sun. 30th November
🕧12:30pm
📍Doyles cozy backroom, Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny
🎫Free
With featured poets Jessamine O'Connor, Charlie Gracie and Martin Goldie, as we kiss goodbye to 2025.
📆Sun. 30th November
🕧12:30pm
📍Doyles cozy backroom, Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny
🎫Free
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Poetry By The Barrow: November Open Mic, presented in association with Poetry Ireland!
With featured poets Jessamine O'Connor, Charlie Gracie and Martin Goldie, as we kiss goodbye to 2025.
📆Sun. 30th November
🕧12:30pm
📍Doyles cozy backroom, Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny
🎫Free
With featured poets Jessamine O'Connor, Charlie Gracie and Martin Goldie, as we kiss goodbye to 2025.
📆Sun. 30th November
🕧12:30pm
📍Doyles cozy backroom, Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny
🎫Free
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The Art of Surfacing, our e-book featuring work from the 14 emerging poets of this year's Introductions / Céadlínte series is now available to purchase!
Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/
Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊
Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/
Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Art of Surfacing, our e-book featuring work from the 14 emerging poets of this year's Introductions / Céadlínte series is now available to purchase!
Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/
Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊
Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/
Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊
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One of the many brilliant poets from Introductions / Céadlínte 2025 Jacob Ray-Halliday reading at the showcase with Dublin Book Festival. 🎤
Jacob’s poems, along with many others from our Introductions / Céadlínte poets will be available in an e-pub coming out later this week!
Jacob’s poems, along with many others from our Introductions / Céadlínte poets will be available in an e-pub coming out later this week!
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One of the many brilliant poets from Introductions / Céadlínte 2025 Jacob Ray-Halliday reading at the showcase with Dublin Book Festival. 🎤
Jacob’s poems, along with many others from our Introductions / Céadlínte poets will be available in an e-pub coming out later this week!
Jacob’s poems, along with many others from our Introductions / Céadlínte poets will be available in an e-pub coming out later this week!
On Friday Oct 24 8pm, at Phil Grimes pub and venue in Waterford City, SpeakEasy will host Ireland Professor of Poetry Vona Groarke. Vona is shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize. She will give a reading, and will also be in conversation with Waterford poet, @mollytwomey. @poetryireland
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
On Friday Oct 24 8pm, at Phil Grimes pub and venue in Waterford City, SpeakEasy will host Ireland Professor of Poetry Vona Groarke. Vona is shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize. She will give a reading, and will also be in conversation with Waterford poet, @mollytwomey. @poetryireland
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It's publication day for our three brilliant September titles: @poetclare.bsky.social's Lives of the Female Poets, @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana, and @emiliejelinek.bsky.social's The Sky Around My Father, winner of the @mslexia.bsky.social Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024.
September 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Next SpeakEasy Waterford on Sept 26 with special guest, debut novelist Orla Mackey. Open Mic and music as well.
September 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Next SpeakEasy Waterford on Sept 26 with special guest, debut novelist Orla Mackey. Open Mic and music as well.
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We're very excited to announce this— Off The Scéal is a brand new Multilingual Open-Mic night created and hosted by the amazing @danflynn94.bsky.social and myself 😍
Come on down to the DLR Lexicon Studio and join us for a night of poetry and song —
Come on down to the DLR Lexicon Studio and join us for a night of poetry and song —
August 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We're very excited to announce this— Off The Scéal is a brand new Multilingual Open-Mic night created and hosted by the amazing @danflynn94.bsky.social and myself 😍
Come on down to the DLR Lexicon Studio and join us for a night of poetry and song —
Come on down to the DLR Lexicon Studio and join us for a night of poetry and song —
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The 2025 Introductions | Céadlínte programme is underway! We’re delighted to welcome this new cohort of poets and hope that Introductions will provide them with many new creative opportunities as they launch their promising writing careers.
Visit to our website to learn more!
Visit to our website to learn more!
September 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The 2025 Introductions | Céadlínte programme is underway! We’re delighted to welcome this new cohort of poets and hope that Introductions will provide them with many new creative opportunities as they launch their promising writing careers.
Visit to our website to learn more!
Visit to our website to learn more!
So delighted to be selected for @poetryireland.bsky.social Introductions 2025, and really looking forward to it. Congratulations to all those selected. Thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for selecting me.
Announcing Poetry Ireland’s Introductions | Céadlínte poets for 2025!
Thanks to Jessica Traynor for selecting our Introductions poets and Aifric Mac Aodha for selecting our Céadlínte poets.
Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and Arts Council Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.
Thanks to Jessica Traynor for selecting our Introductions poets and Aifric Mac Aodha for selecting our Céadlínte poets.
Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and Arts Council Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding.
August 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
So delighted to be selected for @poetryireland.bsky.social Introductions 2025, and really looking forward to it. Congratulations to all those selected. Thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social for selecting me.
Delighted to have a poem in the latest edition of the unique Abridged journal - Lilith edition, alongside a very stiking image from Kseniia Antipina @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Thanks so much to the editors.
June 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Delighted to have a poem in the latest edition of the unique Abridged journal - Lilith edition, alongside a very stiking image from Kseniia Antipina @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Thanks so much to the editors.
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We're pleased to present Abridged 0 - 105: Lilith. We hope you like it. We do. www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... Image by Kseniia Antipina. See you in Belfast at the Golden Thread Gallery tomorrow night! @goldenthreadni.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #poetry
June 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We're pleased to present Abridged 0 - 105: Lilith. We hope you like it. We do. www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... Image by Kseniia Antipina. See you in Belfast at the Golden Thread Gallery tomorrow night! @goldenthreadni.bsky.social @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social #poetry
Waterford City - Next SpeakEasy Open Mic with some very special guests this Friday. Come along and read, or to listen.
May 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Waterford City - Next SpeakEasy Open Mic with some very special guests this Friday. Come along and read, or to listen.
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Tickets are now available for CIPF-2025 Jane Clarke and Pádraig Ó Tuama at Cork Arts Theatre, Ireland. www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/ire...
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May 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Tickets are now available for CIPF-2025 Jane Clarke and Pádraig Ó Tuama at Cork Arts Theatre, Ireland. www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/ire...
May 23, SpeakEasy Open MIc, Waterford with guest poet Mícheál McCann. Mícheál is from Derry City. His poems have been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review and Banshee.He holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s. Devotion is his first collection, from Gallery Press.
May 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
May 23, SpeakEasy Open MIc, Waterford with guest poet Mícheál McCann. Mícheál is from Derry City. His poems have been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review and Banshee.He holds a PhD from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s. Devotion is his first collection, from Gallery Press.
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Hello everyone!
We’re excited to announce that submissions for this year’s issue will be opening soon!
Each category will be reviewed by a special guest judge (announced next week).
Send us your best—we can’t wait to read what you’ve been working on!
We’re excited to announce that submissions for this year’s issue will be opening soon!
Each category will be reviewed by a special guest judge (announced next week).
Send us your best—we can’t wait to read what you’ve been working on!
May 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Hello everyone!
We’re excited to announce that submissions for this year’s issue will be opening soon!
Each category will be reviewed by a special guest judge (announced next week).
Send us your best—we can’t wait to read what you’ve been working on!
We’re excited to announce that submissions for this year’s issue will be opening soon!
Each category will be reviewed by a special guest judge (announced next week).
Send us your best—we can’t wait to read what you’ve been working on!
Tomorrow in Waterford
May 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Tomorrow in Waterford
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Submission Call open now! Don't be tardy!
Don't forget our Umbra Sumus submission call is now open! Poetry and/or Art Required! See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! #poetry #poetrymagazine
May 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Submission Call open now! Don't be tardy!
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Tomorrow is May Day. We remember the fight against Fascism. 5pm at the Spanish Civil War Memorial.
#NoPasaran
#NoPasaran
April 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Tomorrow is May Day. We remember the fight against Fascism. 5pm at the Spanish Civil War Memorial.
#NoPasaran
#NoPasaran
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Looking forward to celebrating Poetry Day Ireland with these wonderful poets in The Book Centre Waterford Thursday 1st May 📖📚
It would be lovely to see you there! ❤️💫✨
#PoetryDayIRL @poetryireland.bsky.social
It would be lovely to see you there! ❤️💫✨
#PoetryDayIRL @poetryireland.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Looking forward to celebrating Poetry Day Ireland with these wonderful poets in The Book Centre Waterford Thursday 1st May 📖📚
It would be lovely to see you there! ❤️💫✨
#PoetryDayIRL @poetryireland.bsky.social
It would be lovely to see you there! ❤️💫✨
#PoetryDayIRL @poetryireland.bsky.social
Poetry Day Event, Waterford
April 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Poetry Day Event, Waterford
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Tickets on sale here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-york...
@jamesyorkston.bsky.social is consistently one of our best gigs.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-york...
@jamesyorkston.bsky.social is consistently one of our best gigs.
April 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Tickets on sale here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-york...
@jamesyorkston.bsky.social is consistently one of our best gigs.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-york...
@jamesyorkston.bsky.social is consistently one of our best gigs.