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DCU Library @dculibrary.bsky.social · 5d

Dr Kit Fryatt introduces the award winning novel Henry Henry by Allen Bratton at tonight's @dublincityuni.bsky.social Book Club in Cregan Library

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 6d

This is tomorrow, for anyone interested.

Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 13d

Allen Bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Henry, Henry' on Thursday, the 16th of October. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3J0qZLg

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Xina @ciw.bsky.social · 7d

So delighted to finally have a copy of Ellen Dillon’s _Butter Intervention_ in my hands. 🧈 ☘️

Small paperback book about the size of a block of butter. Cover art looks like an Irish butter wrapper.

Back cover:

Nothing less than a history of Ireland sculpted in semi-solid emulsion, 'Butter Intervention' is sceptical about narratives and their revisions alike, as refined and as salty as the creamery product it subjects to forensic documentary survey and lyrical deconstruction.
- Kit Fryatt
Ellen Dillon takes the everyday and reveals it as strange, beautiful, poetic and political. I never realised before how much I needed to know about butter. And now I do, I'm grateful and amazed.
- Wendy Erskine

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 10d

Absurdly, this also went live yesterday, the result of me and the brilliant @drnollid.bsky.social trudging through the fog on Ardmore clifftop spitepress.co.uk/product/all-... but just the pre-order this time: out in spring 2026

All things that are passing - Spite Press

All Things that are Passing is a poem in verse and photos about holy wells in Ardmore, Co Waterford and their builder-custodians; in particular Hugh Byrne (fl.1800) and J. P. Rahilly (c.1870-1953), wh...

spitepress.co.uk

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks! Looking forward to reading your book too!

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations!

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 11d

veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
It's here at last, after 3 years (or 15, depending on how you're counting). Profound gratitude to all at Veer2, especially Rob Kiely, to Leda Scully for the cover artwork, and profoundest thanks of all to Harry Gilonis, my indefatigably scholarly and gentlemanly co-author

Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis - Book of Inversions — Veer2.org

Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis - Book of Inversions Veer2 Publication 050 [ISBN:...

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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 13d

Allen Bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Henry, Henry' on Thursday, the 16th of October. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3J0qZLg

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 14d

Glad to see you back safe, thank you for your courage and your example.

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · 14d

Dubliners: on 16 October I'll be joining the Dublin City University book club to talk about Henry Henry with a very special interlocutor, Dr Kit Fryatt -- professor, husband, & indispensable literary collaborator.

Free and open to all, but please register ahead of time: www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...

DCU Book Club with Allen Bratton | dcuartsandculture

www.dcu.ie

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · 16d

Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 17d

Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 24d

FRIENDS I NEED YOUR HELP

A friend of mine is in desperate need of a room in Dublin IMMEDIATELY

BUDGET is €670

Anyone with a room available or know of one, please shoot me a message on here or comment below!

And please share this!

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Cecil Sharp House @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social · Sep 9

Welcome to the Black British Folk Revival.

Guest curator Angeline Morrison and friends take over Cecil Sharp House with folk sounds, songs, and stories that shine a long overdue light on the African Diaspora's love for, and ongoing conversations with, British folk.

Sat 4 Oct
bit.ly/4f02wBB

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks Tom, looks like a lot of fun!

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Aug 31

I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...

Pinks #35: Eugen Gomringer (1925-2025)

The life and work of Europe's first concrete poet

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Literature Ireland @literatureireland.bsky.social · Aug 12

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡

Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Basic Income for the Arts public consultation

ec.europa.eu

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Christodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social · Jul 23

New permanent page on my website about my durational, ongoing writing & performance project DIAL:
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/dial.html

Christodoulos Makris

DIAL a durational writing, performance, recording and publication project (2021 - ongoing) About DIAL DIAL is a durational-procedural work o...

yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT

Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...

Henry Henry by Allen Bratton - Interview with the Author

YouTube video by Itinerant Literate Books

www.youtube.com

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Jun 24

Buy the @unnamedpress.bsky.social paperback of Henry Henry for your cat:

www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...

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Trevor Joyce @trevorjoyce.bsky.social · Jun 17

SoundEye • 2025
July 4-6
Cork, Ireland

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · Jun 10

Open on weekday afternoons according to my local contact there, and 'almost certain' it's open on Sunday afternoons too

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · Jun 9

“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”

Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.

Urnings, in Ireland and Illinois

"It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life."

www.nacbs.org

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · May 19

Please sign this to protect Irish arts jobs

www.surveymonkey.com/r/PRAXIS2025

Protect Artists & Arts Workers

Join Praxis!

www.surveymonkey.com

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · May 17

@kitfryatt.bsky.social on the latest publication from Macha Press: Crowd Work by Sam Furlong

In the parlance of stand-up comedy, 'crowd work' signifies the improvisatory exchanges the comedian conducts with members of the audience, in contrast to the rehearsed material of a core set. Sam Furlong's first collection demonstrates both the chatty insouciance of the former and the structured, iterative build of the latter. These ekphrastic and ethical meditations, narratives of transmasculine being and becoming, unsettle in the way of the most incisive stand-up: they ask you who you are, what you do, and how you got here tonight.

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thanks for this, especially for noting that these proposals aren't aimed at forcing trans people into the wrong facilities, they're aimed at exclusion from all gendered facilities.

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