Paul Sweeney
@paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social
Poet. Limerick. Ireland.
“In our literal fashion” is such a Mahoneaque fastener …
As is the earlier “for all we knew”
As is the earlier “for all we knew”
“... there’s mystery enough in the mere fact / of reality...”
~ from ‘A Dove in the House’ by Derek Mahon (2018)
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~ from ‘A Dove in the House’ by Derek Mahon (2018)
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November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“In our literal fashion” is such a Mahoneaque fastener …
As is the earlier “for all we knew”
As is the earlier “for all we knew”
Wow….”a thousand of us….”
Epstein survivors just demanded the release of the files in this new PSA. Watch it here.
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Wow….”a thousand of us….”
@roisinnineachtain.com and the. I just read this by Mary Ruefle and thought “well now, very Wallace Stevens…”. :)
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
@roisinnineachtain.com and the. I just read this by Mary Ruefle and thought “well now, very Wallace Stevens…”. :)
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In Irish mythology ravens are omens of death or battle. They are bearers of both warning and wisdom. The sense of injustice in this poem is palpable. The third stanza is just brilliant ‘and you can’t pin water to a page’.
According to the Ravens by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
#poetry
#poemoftheday
According to the Ravens by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
#poetry
#poemoftheday
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
In Irish mythology ravens are omens of death or battle. They are bearers of both warning and wisdom. The sense of injustice in this poem is palpable. The third stanza is just brilliant ‘and you can’t pin water to a page’.
According to the Ravens by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
#poetry
#poemoftheday
According to the Ravens by Annemarie Ní Churreáin
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Winter, waking alone
Watching the falling snow
Putting the world together
Watching the falling snow
Putting the world together
"I wake
snow falls,
not that I'm lonely" Santoka
[image: Snowy morning, Settai Komura]
snow falls,
not that I'm lonely" Santoka
[image: Snowy morning, Settai Komura]
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Winter, waking alone
Watching the falling snow
Putting the world together
Watching the falling snow
Putting the world together
Sight and sound… makes you want to hear more, no?
Whoopers cruise the Dutch Barn’s shadow, pen and cob,
a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
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a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Sight and sound… makes you want to hear more, no?
@poemakontsa.bsky.social #mandelstam Tracy trans.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@poemakontsa.bsky.social #mandelstam Tracy trans.
“All day, news helicopters cruised aloft,
going whatwhatwhatwhatwhat”.
Worth the read, very much so.
going whatwhatwhatwhatwhat”.
Worth the read, very much so.
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
“All day, news helicopters cruised aloft,
going whatwhatwhatwhatwhat”.
Worth the read, very much so.
going whatwhatwhatwhatwhat”.
Worth the read, very much so.
When you think you have a line but TSE already wrote it….
Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
T. S. Eliot, 1934
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
T. S. Eliot, 1934
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When you think you have a line but TSE already wrote it….
Beautifully direct …
A gorgini existential Samuel Beckett, written in French and translated by Beckett himself.
My way
my way is in the sand flowing
between the shingle and the dune
My way
my way is in the sand flowing
between the shingle and the dune
November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Beautifully direct …
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Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark;
I am forest.
Rilke
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark;
I am forest.
Rilke
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark;
I am forest.
Rilke
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark;
I am forest.
Rilke
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A bouquet of congratulations to C.D. Rose, a very deserving winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for his brilliant, funny, inventive, cynical, enthralling, disorienting novel We Live Here Now. 👇
Missing ships, missing artworks, missing persons… I loved CD Rose’s new novel We Live Here Now, which has echoes of M John Harrison, JG Ballard, Tom McCarthy and … Martin Amis, but is also thoroughly and delightfully its own thing.
Me in today’s Telegraph:
Me in today’s Telegraph:
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A bouquet of congratulations to C.D. Rose, a very deserving winner of the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social for his brilliant, funny, inventive, cynical, enthralling, disorienting novel We Live Here Now. 👇
Easy to get lost in the music of harmonium…
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Easy to get lost in the music of harmonium…
@eleanorhooker.bsky.social good luck this evening ! Unfortunately I had to return back to limerick early. Pity, great line up tonight . More flute playing @jacqbetula.bsky.social :)
(Good turnout this afternoon)
(Good turnout this afternoon)
November 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@eleanorhooker.bsky.social good luck this evening ! Unfortunately I had to return back to limerick early. Pity, great line up tonight . More flute playing @jacqbetula.bsky.social :)
(Good turnout this afternoon)
(Good turnout this afternoon)
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STARTS TODAY!
@poetryireland.bsky.social
Booking details here:
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
@poetryireland.bsky.social
Booking details here:
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October 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM
STARTS TODAY!
@poetryireland.bsky.social
Booking details here:
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@poetryireland.bsky.social
Booking details here:
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Agh! Headwaters is an extraordinary collection. One for the ages. 🦋
“Ellen taught me to take myself seriously and especially to take poetry seriously, not just the making of it, but how to think and speak about it.”
@cphillipspoet.bsky.social remembers Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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@cphillipspoet.bsky.social remembers Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt
Catherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Agh! Headwaters is an extraordinary collection. One for the ages. 🦋
Oh Jesus, what a poem …
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Oh Jesus, what a poem …
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🌟 Just one poem is all it takes... 🌟
Entries to this year's Moth Poetry Prize are now open – one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem.
Don't miss the chance to win a share of this year's €11,000 prize pot.
Head to our website for all the details: bit.ly/mothpoetry25
Entries to this year's Moth Poetry Prize are now open – one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem.
Don't miss the chance to win a share of this year's €11,000 prize pot.
Head to our website for all the details: bit.ly/mothpoetry25
October 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🌟 Just one poem is all it takes... 🌟
Entries to this year's Moth Poetry Prize are now open – one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem.
Don't miss the chance to win a share of this year's €11,000 prize pot.
Head to our website for all the details: bit.ly/mothpoetry25
Entries to this year's Moth Poetry Prize are now open – one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem.
Don't miss the chance to win a share of this year's €11,000 prize pot.
Head to our website for all the details: bit.ly/mothpoetry25
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Three poets published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social
Polina Cosgrave, Sean Lysaght and Grace Wilentz,
will read at this year's Circling The Square at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Full details of the festival and booking options below.
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Polina Cosgrave, Sean Lysaght and Grace Wilentz,
will read at this year's Circling The Square at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Full details of the festival and booking options below.
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Circling The Square 2025 | The Source Arts Centre
The Source Arts Centre is Tipperary's cultural & entertainment venue presenting music, dance, comedy, film, children's events, visual art & more.
www.thesourceartscentre.ie
October 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Three poets published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social
Polina Cosgrave, Sean Lysaght and Grace Wilentz,
will read at this year's Circling The Square at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Full details of the festival and booking options below.
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Polina Cosgrave, Sean Lysaght and Grace Wilentz,
will read at this year's Circling The Square at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.
Full details of the festival and booking options below.
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Don’t know how I missed this great poetry festival in Thurles ! Nov 1st .
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Circling The Square 2025 | The Source Arts Centre
The Source Arts Centre is Tipperary's cultural & entertainment venue presenting music, dance, comedy, film, children's events, visual art & more.
www.thesourceartscentre.ie
October 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Don’t know how I missed this great poetry festival in Thurles ! Nov 1st .
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
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Listen to Martina Evans read her poem 'Clinical Indications', from her collection American Mules, in a video created by the @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social . 🎧⬇️
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Martina Evans - "Clinical Indications"
Martina Evans' poem "Clinical Indications," performed by the poet. Part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation's Read By series of poetry films. Directed by Matthew Thompson and produced in collaboration with @IrishCulturalCentreHammersmith. Learn more about Evans and explore more poetry at https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Listen to Martina Evans read her poem 'Clinical Indications', from her collection American Mules, in a video created by the @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social . 🎧⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
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Of Absence
Linda Gregg
#Smallpoemsunday
Of absence. Of things broken.
To see if the moon is a mouth.
To see if I am what it wants.
Linda Gregg
#Smallpoemsunday
Of absence. Of things broken.
To see if the moon is a mouth.
To see if I am what it wants.
October 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Of Absence
Linda Gregg
#Smallpoemsunday
Of absence. Of things broken.
To see if the moon is a mouth.
To see if I am what it wants.
Linda Gregg
#Smallpoemsunday
Of absence. Of things broken.
To see if the moon is a mouth.
To see if I am what it wants.
A haunting book…
‘For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and measure – harbour a fullness of time which is neither mere chronology nor novelistic plot.’
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’ and other recent work: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’ and other recent work: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green · Chi Chi Trillip Trillip: Jorie Graham looks ahead
For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A haunting book…
Reeks of talent. I read a few other pages on the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social site. Looking forward to buying the book.
You can read it here
“I am ready to have my own words and not be rejected by a form of parasite which sucks from the flesh of a heart but will not hold its secrets.”
“I am ready to have my own words and not be rejected by a form of parasite which sucks from the flesh of a heart but will not hold its secrets.”
October 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reeks of talent. I read a few other pages on the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social site. Looking forward to buying the book.
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'Do Your Job, God' (Roy Keane praying)
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
'Do Your Job, God' (Roy Keane praying)