Jerm Curtin
@jermcurtin.bsky.social
Irish poet living in Spain
Cacti & other poems
https://munsterlit.ie/bookshop/cacti/
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2021
http://iambapoet.com/wave-fourteen
Cacti & other poems
https://munsterlit.ie/bookshop/cacti/
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2021
http://iambapoet.com/wave-fourteen
A comment from Spain, where fascism is deeply entrenched: I suppose everyone in Ireland realises that these two events are two sides of the same thing #aras #dublinriots
(Steen as Burke from waterfordwhispersnews)
(Steen as Burke from waterfordwhispersnews)
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A comment from Spain, where fascism is deeply entrenched: I suppose everyone in Ireland realises that these two events are two sides of the same thing #aras #dublinriots
(Steen as Burke from waterfordwhispersnews)
(Steen as Burke from waterfordwhispersnews)
I read these two poems on this @madridlitmag.bsky.social podcast where Ellen Merryweather asks me about my chapbook Cacti & other poems @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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June 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I read these two poems on this @madridlitmag.bsky.social podcast where Ellen Merryweather asks me about my chapbook Cacti & other poems @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
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Duncan's work is so vast and so important everyone will have their own favourite. This is mine.
May 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Duncan's work is so vast and so important everyone will have their own favourite. This is mine.
Two lovely books by @roguestrands.bsky.social English, living and working post-Brexit in Spain, Matthew distils the complexity of his situation in spare, deeply-felt, attractive poems. Well worth reading.
May 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Two lovely books by @roguestrands.bsky.social English, living and working post-Brexit in Spain, Matthew distils the complexity of his situation in spare, deeply-felt, attractive poems. Well worth reading.
April 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thirteen ways of looking at Tsvetaeva
I came across these wonderful versions in an old Poetry Review (Autumn 1993) published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tsvetaeva's birth. @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Wendy Cope
I came across these wonderful versions in an old Poetry Review (Autumn 1993) published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tsvetaeva's birth. @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Wendy Cope
April 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thirteen ways of looking at Tsvetaeva
I came across these wonderful versions in an old Poetry Review (Autumn 1993) published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tsvetaeva's birth. @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Wendy Cope
I came across these wonderful versions in an old Poetry Review (Autumn 1993) published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tsvetaeva's birth. @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Wendy Cope
I have never known where to start with Cortázar, but this article in @madridlitmag.bsky.social by @roguestrands.bsky.social has encouraged me to try his poetry.
February 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I have never known where to start with Cortázar, but this article in @madridlitmag.bsky.social by @roguestrands.bsky.social has encouraged me to try his poetry.
Famously, the neighbourhoid figured in ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
The Almodóvar film wonderfully captures the feel of that area in the eighties.
The Almodóvar film wonderfully captures the feel of that area in the eighties.
February 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Famously, the neighbourhoid figured in ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
The Almodóvar film wonderfully captures the feel of that area in the eighties.
The Almodóvar film wonderfully captures the feel of that area in the eighties.
A wonderful new issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social is now available. I am very grateful to the editors for including a poem of mine.
February 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A wonderful new issue of @madridlitmag.bsky.social is now available. I am very grateful to the editors for including a poem of mine.
Your moving text and the Sander photo remind me of a poem of mine, about a photo, men in suits (though not young farmers), winter and a fallow period for creativity.
I wrote it to acknowledge my own failure to do something with a character who'd been in my head for years but wouldn't gel.
I wrote it to acknowledge my own failure to do something with a character who'd been in my head for years but wouldn't gel.
February 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Your moving text and the Sander photo remind me of a poem of mine, about a photo, men in suits (though not young farmers), winter and a fallow period for creativity.
I wrote it to acknowledge my own failure to do something with a character who'd been in my head for years but wouldn't gel.
I wrote it to acknowledge my own failure to do something with a character who'd been in my head for years but wouldn't gel.
My chapbook 'Cacti & other poems' is now available directly from the publisher, Southword editions at the Munster Literature Centre.
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January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My chapbook 'Cacti & other poems' is now available directly from the publisher, Southword editions at the Munster Literature Centre.
munsterlit.ie/cacti-other-...
munsterlit.ie/cacti-other-...
My chapbook Cacti & other poems, just out from Southword editions.
January 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
My chapbook Cacti & other poems, just out from Southword editions.
This little book came about thanks to @markantonyowen.com accepting some poems for @iambapoet.com. These were noticed by my editor at Southword.
My gratitude to Mark for his selfless work with me and so many other poets.
My gratitude to Mark for his selfless work with me and so many other poets.
December 30, 2024 at 5:58 PM
This little book came about thanks to @markantonyowen.com accepting some poems for @iambapoet.com. These were noticed by my editor at Southword.
My gratitude to Mark for his selfless work with me and so many other poets.
My gratitude to Mark for his selfless work with me and so many other poets.
My chapbook 'Cacti & other poems' just out from Southword editions. Now available online, soon in shops.
December 30, 2024 at 5:22 PM
My chapbook 'Cacti & other poems' just out from Southword editions. Now available online, soon in shops.
Lyn Coffin's version
December 6, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Lyn Coffin's version
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order no explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky💙📚 #bookchallenge #20DayBookChallenge
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Day 4/20
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December 5, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order no explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Day 4/20
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Day 4/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order no explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order no explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Day 3/20
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Day 3/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order no explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 3, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order no explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Day 2/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order no explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 1, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you one book per day for 20 days, in no particular order no explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Just read: Ayşegül Savaş's The Anthropologists
It catches really well the feel of a daily life lived far from one's native surroundings and culture, and the very specific anxieties of distance from family. Very much identified with it.
It catches really well the feel of a daily life lived far from one's native surroundings and culture, and the very specific anxieties of distance from family. Very much identified with it.
November 28, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Just read: Ayşegül Savaş's The Anthropologists
It catches really well the feel of a daily life lived far from one's native surroundings and culture, and the very specific anxieties of distance from family. Very much identified with it.
It catches really well the feel of a daily life lived far from one's native surroundings and culture, and the very specific anxieties of distance from family. Very much identified with it.