Caroline Bracken
@carolinebracken.bsky.social
Irish poet Winner Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2024 'Boy, Mother' published by Smith Doorstop
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/boy-mother/
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/boy-mother/
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Had a wonderful time in Wordsworth Trust Grasmere at the launch of 'Boy, Mother' @poetrybusiness.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading in Waterford this Saturday 29th in fine company.
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 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Looking forward to reading in Waterford this Saturday 29th in fine company.
Next Sunday 5 October I'll be reading in Books Upstairs at 2pm alongside some fine poets, do come if you're around town!
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booksupstairs.ie/all-events/s...
Sunday Poetry | 2pm | Books Upstairs
We’re delighted to present an afternoon of poetry with Caroline Bracken, Lauren McNamara, Rafael Mendes, D’or Seifer and Molly Twomey. All are welcome to enjoy the poetry from 2pm on Sunday 5th Octobe...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Next Sunday 5 October I'll be reading in Books Upstairs at 2pm alongside some fine poets, do come if you're around town!
booksupstairs.ie/all-events/s...
booksupstairs.ie/all-events/s...
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Book 14 of the #SealeyChallenge is actually a journal because this appeared in the post. Excited to read @carolinebracken.bsky.social prize winning pamphlet now from the sample in this
August 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Book 14 of the #SealeyChallenge is actually a journal because this appeared in the post. Excited to read @carolinebracken.bsky.social prize winning pamphlet now from the sample in this
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Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.
Fitzcarraldo Editions to publish Keith Ridgway's DOONEEN | Fitzcarraldo Editions
Fitzcarraldo Editions publisher Jacques Testard has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights excluding Canada, with exclusivity in Europe, to Keith Ridgway’s novel Dooneen from Laurence Laluyaux at RCW. Ridg...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.
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Irish Poets, the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition is open now. Free to enter, with cash prizes, it's judged by Aifric Mac Aodha. Closing date for entries is 8th September! redlinefestival.ie/events/red-l...
Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition | Red Line Book FestivalRed Line Book Festival 2024 | Monday October 14th to Sunday October 20th
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July 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Irish Poets, the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition is open now. Free to enter, with cash prizes, it's judged by Aifric Mac Aodha. Closing date for entries is 8th September! redlinefestival.ie/events/red-l...
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Honoured and delighted to be the featured reader at Lime Square Poets on June 12th! This event is online and completely free 💚 www.limesquarepoets.com/event-detail...
Lauren O'Donovan & Open Mic | Lime Square Poets
Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Lauren O'Donovan followed by Open Mic!
www.limesquarepoets.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Honoured and delighted to be the featured reader at Lime Square Poets on June 12th! This event is online and completely free 💚 www.limesquarepoets.com/event-detail...
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Delighted to share this poem which has been published in the wonderful Ghost Furniture Catalogue. Thanks to @billherbert for giving my work a home.
We couldn’t resist kicking off the New Year at #GhostFurnitureCatalogue with @siobhanflynn.bsky.social’s joyous celebration of aunts, French windows, snow, and, er, ashtrays.
Gather your footstools & coffee tables around and recite them this:
ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/s...
Gather your footstools & coffee tables around and recite them this:
ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/s...
Siobhán Flynn: Mid-century modern
The lounge was the colour of evening, light strained through net curtains, brown-legged furniture, a gold wire magazine rack. There were French windows that were never opened, although there was a …
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January 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Delighted to share this poem which has been published in the wonderful Ghost Furniture Catalogue. Thanks to @billherbert for giving my work a home.
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We’re sad to hear news of the death of Irish poet Paul Durcan, aged 80 - an extraordinary storyteller.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Acclaimed poet Paul Durcan dies aged 80
Poet who more than 20 books was awarded the Lifetime Achievement at the Irish Book Awards in 2014
www.irishtimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We’re sad to hear news of the death of Irish poet Paul Durcan, aged 80 - an extraordinary storyteller.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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My thoughts on two new Dante books from the Princeton University Press: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2871 with thanks to David Cooke and The High Window.
May 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My thoughts on two new Dante books from the Princeton University Press: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2871 with thanks to David Cooke and The High Window.
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Thank you Annemarie Ní Churreáin editor @stingingfly.bsky.social for including 2 of my new poems in Summer 2025 Issue - there's a wealth of fine poetry & fiction to be discovered here as ever.
Launch Sat 17th May 8pm Merrion Square @ilfdublin.bsky.social
Launch Sat 17th May 8pm Merrion Square @ilfdublin.bsky.social
Are you excited for our Summer 2025 issue launch? if so, you're in luck!
You can pre-order the new issue now ahead of the launch @ILFDublin on May 17th.
preorder here: stingingfly.org/product/summ...
You can pre-order the new issue now ahead of the launch @ILFDublin on May 17th.
preorder here: stingingfly.org/product/summ...
May 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thank you Annemarie Ní Churreáin editor @stingingfly.bsky.social for including 2 of my new poems in Summer 2025 Issue - there's a wealth of fine poetry & fiction to be discovered here as ever.
Launch Sat 17th May 8pm Merrion Square @ilfdublin.bsky.social
Launch Sat 17th May 8pm Merrion Square @ilfdublin.bsky.social
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🎤 Join us at 5pm on Friday 6 June to hear from the rising stars of the poetry world!
Find out more and reserve your space (quick, our open mic slots disappear pretty quickly!) at bit.ly/JuneTakeover.
Find out more and reserve your space (quick, our open mic slots disappear pretty quickly!) at bit.ly/JuneTakeover.
May 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🎤 Join us at 5pm on Friday 6 June to hear from the rising stars of the poetry world!
Find out more and reserve your space (quick, our open mic slots disappear pretty quickly!) at bit.ly/JuneTakeover.
Find out more and reserve your space (quick, our open mic slots disappear pretty quickly!) at bit.ly/JuneTakeover.
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Irish writers please share this amazing opportunity
✍️ Workshoppin'
✍️ Exploring new ways of writing
✍️Learning how to sculpt your work and edit
✍️ Having a geg at the #JHISS!
✍️ Networking with fellow writers and literary peeps!
APPLY APPLY APPLY! 👇
johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri…
✍️ Workshoppin'
✍️ Exploring new ways of writing
✍️Learning how to sculpt your work and edit
✍️ Having a geg at the #JHISS!
✍️ Networking with fellow writers and literary peeps!
APPLY APPLY APPLY! 👇
johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri…
https://johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri…
May 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Irish writers please share this amazing opportunity
✍️ Workshoppin'
✍️ Exploring new ways of writing
✍️Learning how to sculpt your work and edit
✍️ Having a geg at the #JHISS!
✍️ Networking with fellow writers and literary peeps!
APPLY APPLY APPLY! 👇
johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri…
✍️ Workshoppin'
✍️ Exploring new ways of writing
✍️Learning how to sculpt your work and edit
✍️ Having a geg at the #JHISS!
✍️ Networking with fellow writers and literary peeps!
APPLY APPLY APPLY! 👇
johnhewittsociety.org/freedom-to-wri…
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Galway!!
Book launch, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway City.
Joint launch for *Menagerie* & *Washing Windows V* both from Arlen House.
All welcome!
Book launch, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway City.
Joint launch for *Menagerie* & *Washing Windows V* both from Arlen House.
All welcome!
May 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Galway!!
Book launch, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway City.
Joint launch for *Menagerie* & *Washing Windows V* both from Arlen House.
All welcome!
Book launch, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway City.
Joint launch for *Menagerie* & *Washing Windows V* both from Arlen House.
All welcome!
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‘We need to believe that we can still change things for the better, that there is a point to trying – that there is a point to coming together as communities, to writing poetry. That our writing can express not just problems, but solutions.’
So much love for this piece by @janeburn.bsky.social ❤️
So much love for this piece by @janeburn.bsky.social ❤️
If We Relearn to Love the Ground
Hybrid piece by Jane Burn
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May 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
‘We need to believe that we can still change things for the better, that there is a point to trying – that there is a point to coming together as communities, to writing poetry. That our writing can express not just problems, but solutions.’
So much love for this piece by @janeburn.bsky.social ❤️
So much love for this piece by @janeburn.bsky.social ❤️
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Thrilled to have received my contributor copy of this glorious anthology.
The Aftershock Review is an incredible anthology on the after-events of trauma, created by the wonderful @maxwallis.bsky.social
So proud to have 3 poems in it!
You can purchase it here: www.aftershockreview.com
The Aftershock Review is an incredible anthology on the after-events of trauma, created by the wonderful @maxwallis.bsky.social
So proud to have 3 poems in it!
You can purchase it here: www.aftershockreview.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Thrilled to have received my contributor copy of this glorious anthology.
The Aftershock Review is an incredible anthology on the after-events of trauma, created by the wonderful @maxwallis.bsky.social
So proud to have 3 poems in it!
You can purchase it here: www.aftershockreview.com
The Aftershock Review is an incredible anthology on the after-events of trauma, created by the wonderful @maxwallis.bsky.social
So proud to have 3 poems in it!
You can purchase it here: www.aftershockreview.com
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Good weekend for a walk?
From my recent debut collection Rope of Sand, first published in @thespectator1828.bsky.social
From my recent debut collection Rope of Sand, first published in @thespectator1828.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Good weekend for a walk?
From my recent debut collection Rope of Sand, first published in @thespectator1828.bsky.social
From my recent debut collection Rope of Sand, first published in @thespectator1828.bsky.social
www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/w... Happy Poetry Day Ireland, loads of events happening around the country #poetrydayirl @poetryireland.bsky.social
Spark a Poem | Writing Workshop | Poetry Day Ireland | Poetry Ireland
Poetry Ireland - Connecting poetry and people
www.poetryireland.ie
May 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
www.poetryireland.ie/poetry-day/w... Happy Poetry Day Ireland, loads of events happening around the country #poetrydayirl @poetryireland.bsky.social
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My review of 'Boy, Mother' by Caroline Bracken, winner of the @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 2024 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Prize.
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Review by Colin Dardis of "Boy, Mother" by Caroline Bracken
Winner of the 2024 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Prize, Boy, Mother is a sequence of poems exploring a mother’s relationshi...
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April 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My review of 'Boy, Mother' by Caroline Bracken, winner of the @poetrybusiness.bsky.social 2024 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Prize.
everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/04/revi...
everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/04/revi...
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Out now: the two amazing winning pamphlets from our 2024 Book & Pamphlet Competition! Order from our website: buff.ly/3EBhU9q
Also, keep an ear out for readings from Jen Feroze and Caroline Bracken on our Poetry Bites podcast: buff.ly/42TZdrG
@jenferoze.bsky.social
@carolinebracken.bsky.social
Also, keep an ear out for readings from Jen Feroze and Caroline Bracken on our Poetry Bites podcast: buff.ly/42TZdrG
@jenferoze.bsky.social
@carolinebracken.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Out now: the two amazing winning pamphlets from our 2024 Book & Pamphlet Competition! Order from our website: buff.ly/3EBhU9q
Also, keep an ear out for readings from Jen Feroze and Caroline Bracken on our Poetry Bites podcast: buff.ly/42TZdrG
@jenferoze.bsky.social
@carolinebracken.bsky.social
Also, keep an ear out for readings from Jen Feroze and Caroline Bracken on our Poetry Bites podcast: buff.ly/42TZdrG
@jenferoze.bsky.social
@carolinebracken.bsky.social
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Tom French's poem The End of January was @irishtimes.com Poem of the Week recently. Tom will be at WCLF for a special @thegallerypress.bsky.social event with Vona Groarke & Aifric Mac Aodha on 13 July
🎟️https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/gallery-goes-to-wclf/
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
🎟️https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/gallery-goes-to-wclf/
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Poem of the Week: The End of January
A new work by Tom French
www.irishtimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Tom French's poem The End of January was @irishtimes.com Poem of the Week recently. Tom will be at WCLF for a special @thegallerypress.bsky.social event with Vona Groarke & Aifric Mac Aodha on 13 July
🎟️https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/gallery-goes-to-wclf/
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
🎟️https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/gallery-goes-to-wclf/
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Had a wonderful time in Wordsworth Trust Grasmere at the launch of 'Boy, Mother' @poetrybusiness.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Had a wonderful time in Wordsworth Trust Grasmere at the launch of 'Boy, Mother' @poetrybusiness.bsky.social
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Absolute pleasure to judge the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2023/24. Here's the three stories on the shortlist:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Prize — Galley Beggar Press
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
February 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Absolute pleasure to judge the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2023/24. Here's the three stories on the shortlist:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize