Oisín Breen
@oisinbreen.bsky.social
Poet, Financial Journalist (RIABiz), and occasional narratologist.
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Buy my work here: https://linktr.ee/OBreen
@Breen@mastodon.ie // @Breen
The true gatekeepers of art work in HR or admin positions. They have done for decades. They prioritize issues, and the emperor's new clothes conceit of authenticity.
Here's yet another case in point.
Here's yet another case in point.
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The true gatekeepers of art work in HR or admin positions. They have done for decades. They prioritize issues, and the emperor's new clothes conceit of authenticity.
Here's yet another case in point.
Here's yet another case in point.
Ah I really did miss Istanbul.
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ah I really did miss Istanbul.
There really is some striking similarity between depictions of movement in Byzantine religious art and in Duchamp's early work.
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
There really is some striking similarity between depictions of movement in Byzantine religious art and in Duchamp's early work.
Missed you Istanbul
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Missed you Istanbul
Forward & Faber have a very very different idea to what I'd say constitutes good writing.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Forward & Faber have a very very different idea to what I'd say constitutes good writing.
The Scottish journal, The Skinny, has another great new authors (some are long established) list... I know it's a bit of clickbait, and I know it's only a regional, but can we please get something, anything different in poetry?
Link below
#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing
Link below
#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing
October 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The Scottish journal, The Skinny, has another great new authors (some are long established) list... I know it's a bit of clickbait, and I know it's only a regional, but can we please get something, anything different in poetry?
Link below
#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing
Link below
#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing
"My pulsing blood had transformed music to silence and sight to sound," to Relent and to Know, a wee short in @Dreich25197318 @dreich.bsky.social
#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #literature #books
#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #literature #books
October 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"My pulsing blood had transformed music to silence and sight to sound," to Relent and to Know, a wee short in @Dreich25197318 @dreich.bsky.social
#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #literature #books
#poetry #writingcommunity #art #writing #literature #books
I'm enjoying this phase of life.
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'm enjoying this phase of life.
Every single fucking day I get shit like this mailed to me.
Can you AI grifters not just fuck off?
Nobody likes you.
They never will.
Can you AI grifters not just fuck off?
Nobody likes you.
They never will.
October 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Every single fucking day I get shit like this mailed to me.
Can you AI grifters not just fuck off?
Nobody likes you.
They never will.
Can you AI grifters not just fuck off?
Nobody likes you.
They never will.
After three days in France, getting home an actually eating a real breakfast, full of nutrients and deliciousness...
October 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
After three days in France, getting home an actually eating a real breakfast, full of nutrients and deliciousness...
Writer giggles in Marseille.
October 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Writer giggles in Marseille.
I appear to have become art, courtesy of my friend Raj
September 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I appear to have become art, courtesy of my friend Raj
Excellent piece by Jim Carruth @jim08218867
August 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Excellent piece by Jim Carruth @jim08218867
For some reason, 'AI' spambots have decided to send me a different daily email about my second book, telling me that they are in fact a real person ready to take my '23 published work to the stratosphere with book clubs, if only we connect.
I'm still unsure why. Poetry /= money
I'm still unsure why. Poetry /= money
August 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
For some reason, 'AI' spambots have decided to send me a different daily email about my second book, telling me that they are in fact a real person ready to take my '23 published work to the stratosphere with book clubs, if only we connect.
I'm still unsure why. Poetry /= money
I'm still unsure why. Poetry /= money
Och, just learned, after John Burnside's death, St. Andrews moved to discontinue @Agendapoetry -- a big loss.
Living history, co-founded by Ezra Pound, gone.
Luckily, & sadly, I had the fortune of being published in what ultimately became Agenda's last issue.
#writing #poetry
Living history, co-founded by Ezra Pound, gone.
Luckily, & sadly, I had the fortune of being published in what ultimately became Agenda's last issue.
#writing #poetry
August 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Just read Edna Longley's essay in @thedarkhorsemag
Excellent read it was.
My continued sympathy to her too, for his passing.
Excellent read it was.
My continued sympathy to her too, for his passing.
August 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Just read Edna Longley's essay in @thedarkhorsemag
Excellent read it was.
My continued sympathy to her too, for his passing.
Excellent read it was.
My continued sympathy to her too, for his passing.
Meanwhile, in Northumbria
August 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Meanwhile, in Northumbria
Thank you oh wonderful Barter Books of Alnwick
August 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thank you oh wonderful Barter Books of Alnwick