Delighted to be one of three highly commended poets for the Southword Editor's Prize.
I look forward to seeing my two poems in print. Many thanks to everyone @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social.
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I look forward to seeing my two poems in print. Many thanks to everyone @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social.
munsterlit.ie/southword-ed...
Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result – Munster Literature Centre
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January 14, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Delighted to be one of three highly commended poets for the Southword Editor's Prize.
I look forward to seeing my two poems in print. Many thanks to everyone @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social.
munsterlit.ie/southword-ed...
I look forward to seeing my two poems in print. Many thanks to everyone @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social.
munsterlit.ie/southword-ed...
munsterlit.ie/southword-ed...
Lucky to make the commended list
Lucky to make the commended list
Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result – Munster Literature Centre
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January 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Lucky to make the commended list
Lucky to make the commended list
We are delighted that the first Southword Poetry Podcast of 2026 is out now with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and is available to listen to on our website - southword.buzzsprout.com/share
#podcast
#podcast
Southword Poetry Podcast
The Southword Poetry Podcast is produced by the Munster Literature Centre. Each episode, a guest poet talks in depth about their latest work and shares a few of their poems. We also hear a poem from a...
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January 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
We are delighted that the first Southword Poetry Podcast of 2026 is out now with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and is available to listen to on our website - southword.buzzsprout.com/share
#podcast
#podcast
We are delighted to announce that this year’s Southword Editor’s Poetry Award has been won by José Buera. A full list of highly commended and commended entries are available on our website www.munsterlit.ie
Many thanks to everyone who submitted an entry.
#poetryaward
Many thanks to everyone who submitted an entry.
#poetryaward
January 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
We are delighted to announce that this year’s Southword Editor’s Poetry Award has been won by José Buera. A full list of highly commended and commended entries are available on our website www.munsterlit.ie
Many thanks to everyone who submitted an entry.
#poetryaward
Many thanks to everyone who submitted an entry.
#poetryaward
We are now taking Poetry submissions for Southword. 3 weeks to get your entry in. Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck! www.munsterlit.ie
#poetry #southword #poetrywriting
#poetry #southword #poetrywriting
January 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM
We are now taking Poetry submissions for Southword. 3 weeks to get your entry in. Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck! www.munsterlit.ie
#poetry #southword #poetrywriting
#poetry #southword #poetrywriting
Listen to Carcanet poet Mary O'Malley on Southword Poetry Podcast, discussing her collection The Shark Nursery, which recently won the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize!
Listen to the podcast:🎧⬇️
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Browse the book:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017414...
Listen to the podcast:🎧⬇️
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Browse the book:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017414...
Mary O'Malley: The Shark Nursery
Podcast Episode · Southword Poetry Podcast · 29/12/2025 · 55m
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January 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Listen to Carcanet poet Mary O'Malley on Southword Poetry Podcast, discussing her collection The Shark Nursery, which recently won the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize!
Listen to the podcast:🎧⬇️
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Browse the book:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017414...
Listen to the podcast:🎧⬇️
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Browse the book:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017414...
Columbia Review, One Art Poetry, and Southword. After 25 years in Massachusetts, she returned to her native England, where she spends as much time as possible outside.
December 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Columbia Review, One Art Poetry, and Southword. After 25 years in Massachusetts, she returned to her native England, where she spends as much time as possible outside.
The next episode of the Southword Poetry Podcast is out now with Gerry Murphy and is available: southword.buzzsprout.com/share or click on the link in our bio for our website where you will be able to listen to all our podcasts
#podcast
#podcast
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The next episode of the Southword Poetry Podcast is out now with Gerry Murphy and is available: southword.buzzsprout.com/share or click on the link in our bio for our website where you will be able to listen to all our podcasts
#podcast
#podcast
LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025
Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library
dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library
dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025
Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library
dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library
dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!
Pleased to share that I have a poem, "This Ghost-Populated Home of a Room", in Issue 49 of Southword Journal. ✨💌
Copies can be found at munsterlit.ie/bookshop/sou...
Copies can be found at munsterlit.ie/bookshop/sou...
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Pleased to share that I have a poem, "This Ghost-Populated Home of a Room", in Issue 49 of Southword Journal. ✨💌
Copies can be found at munsterlit.ie/bookshop/sou...
Copies can be found at munsterlit.ie/bookshop/sou...
It's a real honour to have work in this issue of Southword. Launch is Friday 21, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. 6.30.
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It's a real honour to have work in this issue of Southword. Launch is Friday 21, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. 6.30.
Another great episode of the Southword Poetry Podcast by David Nash is out now. You can listen to David’s podcast and many more through our website – www.munsterlit.ie or click the link in our bio. southword.buzzsprout.com/share
#podcast
#podcast
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Another great episode of the Southword Poetry Podcast by David Nash is out now. You can listen to David’s podcast and many more through our website – www.munsterlit.ie or click the link in our bio. southword.buzzsprout.com/share
#podcast
#podcast
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.
Brian Kirk has published two poetry collections with Salmon Poetry, After The Fall and Hare’s Breath. His poem ‘Birthday’ won Irish Poem of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2018. His short fiction chapbook It’s Not Me, It’s You was published by Southword Editions
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Poet of the Month, November: Brian Kirk
The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2025. For November, we are delighted to publish three new works by Brian Kirk. The first of these, ‘Keepsakes&…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Brian Kirk has published two poetry collections with Salmon Poetry, After The Fall and Hare’s Breath. His poem ‘Birthday’ won Irish Poem of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2018. His short fiction chapbook It’s Not Me, It’s You was published by Southword Editions
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thelonelycrowd.org/2025/11/07/p...
Date for the diary:
The winter issue of Southword will be launched on 21st November at 6.30pm.
Join us for a glass of wine at the launch of issue 49 with readings from some of the local poets in the issue.
Copies are available to purchase through our website www.munsterlit.ie
#writing #booklaunch
The winter issue of Southword will be launched on 21st November at 6.30pm.
Join us for a glass of wine at the launch of issue 49 with readings from some of the local poets in the issue.
Copies are available to purchase through our website www.munsterlit.ie
#writing #booklaunch
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Date for the diary:
The winter issue of Southword will be launched on 21st November at 6.30pm.
Join us for a glass of wine at the launch of issue 49 with readings from some of the local poets in the issue.
Copies are available to purchase through our website www.munsterlit.ie
#writing #booklaunch
The winter issue of Southword will be launched on 21st November at 6.30pm.
Join us for a glass of wine at the launch of issue 49 with readings from some of the local poets in the issue.
Copies are available to purchase through our website www.munsterlit.ie
#writing #booklaunch
Stack for today's class on literary journals
October 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Stack for today's class on literary journals
Delighted to have a poem in the next issue of Southword
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Delighted to have a poem in the next issue of Southword
A new episode of the Southword Poetry Podcast is out now “Joyelle McSweeney: Death Styles.”
All podcasts are available on our website – www.munsterlit.ie
#podcasts
All podcasts are available on our website – www.munsterlit.ie
#podcasts
September 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A new episode of the Southword Poetry Podcast is out now “Joyelle McSweeney: Death Styles.”
All podcasts are available on our website – www.munsterlit.ie
#podcasts
All podcasts are available on our website – www.munsterlit.ie
#podcasts
Final week: The Southword Editors Poetry Award competition is open for submissions until the 30th September. Click on the link in our bio for all the information on how to enter munsterlit.ie/southwordedi...
#poetrycompetition #poetryaward #writing #poetry
#poetrycompetition #poetryaward #writing #poetry
September 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Final week: The Southword Editors Poetry Award competition is open for submissions until the 30th September. Click on the link in our bio for all the information on how to enter munsterlit.ie/southwordedi...
#poetrycompetition #poetryaward #writing #poetry
#poetrycompetition #poetryaward #writing #poetry
Delighted to be shortlisted for this award alongside winner #JudyCrozier and Karen J McDonnell of down the road, and others. My essay, about autism and Pythia, will be in Southword in 2026. Thanks to all at Munster Lit & @southword.bsky.social 🙌
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Delighted to be shortlisted for this award alongside winner #JudyCrozier and Karen J McDonnell of down the road, and others. My essay, about autism and Pythia, will be in Southword in 2026. Thanks to all at Munster Lit & @southword.bsky.social 🙌
Delighted to announce that first prize of the Southword Creative Non-Fiction Award is Judy Crozier, whose winning story will be published in issue 49 of Southword (winter 2025). All the details on the other winners can be found on our website - munsterlit.ie/southword-cr...
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Delighted to announce that first prize of the Southword Creative Non-Fiction Award is Judy Crozier, whose winning story will be published in issue 49 of Southword (winter 2025). All the details on the other winners can be found on our website - munsterlit.ie/southword-cr...
My version will be out in the Summer 2026 (Northern Hemisphere) issue of Southword munsterlit.ie/southword/
Southword – Munster Literature Centre
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September 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My version will be out in the Summer 2026 (Northern Hemisphere) issue of Southword munsterlit.ie/southword/
The Southword poetry podcast is back with their latest season and I'm enjoying the latest episode with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social this morning 😀
#poetrypodcast #poetry
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#poetrypodcast #poetry
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Traci Brimhall: Love Prodigal
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August 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Southword poetry podcast is back with their latest season and I'm enjoying the latest episode with @tracibrimhall.bsky.social this morning 😀
#poetrypodcast #poetry
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#poetrypodcast #poetry
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Traci Brimhall’s episode of the Southword Poetry Podcast is now available to listen to. Just click on the link:
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August 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Traci Brimhall’s episode of the Southword Poetry Podcast is now available to listen to. Just click on the link:
southword.buzzsprout.com/share
southword.buzzsprout.com/share
Lauren O’Donovan @LaurenODonovanW.bsky.social has won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Cúirt New Writing Prize, Southword Subscriber’s Poetry Prize and, most recently, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Lauren is a grateful recipient of Cork County Council Arts and Arts Council funding.
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Lauren O’Donovan @LaurenODonovanW.bsky.social has won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Cúirt New Writing Prize, Southword Subscriber’s Poetry Prize and, most recently, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Lauren is a grateful recipient of Cork County Council Arts and Arts Council funding.