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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 39m

Don’t read this for my sake—my future is all used up. Read it for Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees. They’ve still got it. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry

Lovers of noir are generally aware that the term was initially applied to the works of a set of US authors and filmmakers in retrospect, from afar, when the French were first granted access to films t...

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 12h

The poetry podcast is back!

Season 10! With @suefinch.bsky.social @citizen-chris.bsky.social Beth Brooke & Giles Watson

Listen on most olatforms including #Spotify #podbeancom & #ApplePodcasts (link below)

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Guest details here
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Eat the Storms Episode 1 Season 10

Podcast Episode · Eat The Storms · 12/10/2025 · 49m

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 14h

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Bronze figurine of a walking skeleton with elongated limbs and detailed ribcage, shown against a dark gradient background.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 40m

There has never been a bad book featuring a badger

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 39m

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 3d

Hello to all lovers of poetry, poetic prose. To the romantics and the political.

I have written this book. It is my third book and my first independently published book.

It is unlike any of my other writing. It is not for the traditionally-minded. You might like it if you like the surreal.

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 6d

This happened just now.

Pre-orders up!!! Deeply grateful to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and all my teachers at UCD and the kind writers who wrote the blurbs including @gagebybell.bsky.social and @martinadalton.bsky.social and so many others …

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Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social · 2h

Tomorrow night in Sheffield I’ll be reading a new commissioned poem for Jane Austen (and women who write!). Please join us: offtheshelf.org.uk/events/a-hou...

Rachel Bower is an award-winning author and poet from Bradford. Her debut novel, It Comes from the River, and third poetry collection, Bee, have both been published in 2025.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 21h

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 58m

Saving the City reviewed in the Irish Independent.

If you haven’t listened yet, please do! The entire series is out now.

10 episodes of smart chats and solutions for making cities thrive.

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Paul Killeen @pkilleenphoto.bsky.social · Jan 24

'Spirit'

A little bit of calm, on the stormiest of days. Those in the UK and Ireland will know what I’m talking about.

Stay safe.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 55m

Saucy, rich and creamy, this one-pot meal is for those who adore tender gnocchi.

Creamy Mushrooms and Gnocchi Recipe

Saucy, rich and creamy, this one-pot meal is for those who adore tender gnocchi. Sautéed cremini mushrooms, shallots, garlic and mustard form an umami-rich base, while the gnocchi simmer in cream and stock, creating a rich and abundant sauce.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 55m

Paul Klee, Around the Fish, 1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135193

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 13h

Urgent action needed: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 1h

abolish page numbers

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 6h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1h

Literally one step at a time, clutching on to banister. Like a snail.

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1h

Re the perimenopausal sheen, the other day in class I was dripping, my makeup melted off and I just sat there in agony and discomfort glistening and wet. Highlight of my week. Also sympathy about the stairs because I have mobility issues and the uni library is on a million levels. Up/down. UP. DOWN

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1h

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 1h

Drama on the Isle of Lewis

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 1h

Field of sunflowers outside a Hy-Vee in Peru, IL

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The Journal of Music @journalofmusic.bsky.social · 4h

// Catherine Connolly Was There for Artists When It Mattered – Heather Humphreys Was Not // bit.ly/476RdnF

Heather Humphreys is a former Minister for Arts who made a serious funding misjudgement during her tenure; Catherine Connolly’s support for artists offers a contrast, writes Toner Quinn.

Catherine Connolly Was There for Artists When It Mattered – Heather Humphreys Was Not

Heather Humphreys is a former Minister for Arts who made a serious funding misjudgement during her tenure; Catherine Connolly’s support for artists offers a contrast, writes Toner Quinn.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 5d

Ladies and gentlepuffins we are floating in space.
One small step for puffin, one giant leap for puffinkind, with more Jill McDonald joy for my Sputnik Sweethearts.

Colourful cartoon cover of a 1968 Puffin Post magazine, in which a pink space rocket emits fierce fiery jets of flame from three booster rockets which are powering it.
The rocket is patterned in black flowers and orange pink and yellow zigzags speeds through a black starry sky with a big shiny sliver satellite spinning through space.
The rocket is crewed by three puffins in yellow space suits sitting at porthole windows and three on space walks outside tethered to the rocket by squiggly blue cables.
Above it, another rocket, this one striped red and yellow zooms across bearing the title Puffin Post in white, hand drawn capital letters outlined in black.
The style of the illustration is very much 1960s psychedelia for primary children and it gives a real sense of an unfolding scene in motion

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 2h

CLOSING IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE~ Don't miss your chance to submit to our annual contests. The Ronald Sukenick Contest is judged by @alvinlu.bsky.social and awards $3,000; the Catherine Doctorow Prize is judged by Kazim Ali and awards $15,000 ⭐️

Learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1h

This particular event was presented by Ulster University and DCU.

Brilliant questions after! was so close to meeting one of my economist heroes (John FitzGerald)!

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1h

Can’t believe how lucky I am!!! So grateful to Publishing Ireland and the RIA for this work placement!!!

Was bursting with excitement all evening!!!

Fascinating ARINS (North/South research and analysis) event!!

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1h

Can’t believe how lucky I am!!! So grateful to Publishing Ireland and the RIA for this work placement!!!

Was bursting with excitement all evening!!!

Fascinating ARINS (North/South research and analysis) event!!

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 6h

Currently being subjected to the bus driver’s taste in music. It’s a form of torture. There is no escape. It is indescribable.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 20h

Thank you!

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

The latest @irishtimes.com fiction in translation column by Catherine Taylor is now online for subscribers 👇

Fiction in translation: The Midnight Timetable; The Woman Dies; The Ferryman & His Wife; My Name Is Stramer; Wolf Moon’ and The Loft

Books by Bora Chung (Korea), Japan (Aoko Matsuda), Frode Grytten (Norway), Mikołaj Łoziński (Poland), Julio Llamazares (Spain) and Marlen Haushofer (Austria)

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