Paul Sweeney
@paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social
Poet. Limerick. Ireland.
A page at random: long prose poem paragraphs, in a conversational tone of heightened awareness… all somehow connected. Here is a random page …
December 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A page at random: long prose poem paragraphs, in a conversational tone of heightened awareness… all somehow connected. Here is a random page …
I have other books but have yet to really dig in. In the mean time can I recommend this to you?
December 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I have other books but have yet to really dig in. In the mean time can I recommend this to you?
Louise Glück, Fugue, from Averno. @poemakontsa.bsky.social :)
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Louise Glück, Fugue, from Averno. @poemakontsa.bsky.social :)
What an elegant opening poem.
Averno, Louise Glück
Averno, Louise Glück
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What an elegant opening poem.
Averno, Louise Glück
Averno, Louise Glück
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@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…”. :)
@poemakontsa.bsky.social #mandelstam Tracy trans.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
@poemakontsa.bsky.social #mandelstam Tracy trans.
This seems to me to be the most promising one of the limited bunch in the Italian poetry anthology I have …
November 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This seems to me to be the most promising one of the limited bunch in the Italian poetry anthology I have …
Well, found one !
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Well, found one !
October 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The beauty of the internet is that someone can mention a critics essay and you can just go and find it…. Might have been you @nemoloris.bsky.social !
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The beauty of the internet is that someone can mention a critics essay and you can just go and find it…. Might have been you @nemoloris.bsky.social !
New painting …
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New painting …
Did a little reading during the week in Cahir Co. Tipperary.
At a painting exhibition launch night .
Lots of very nice, very cool, very serious arts people.
Then at Gavin Hogg’s 40th year of painting retrospectives . Amazing, life affirming, deep journey.
I’m blessed with painters.
At a painting exhibition launch night .
Lots of very nice, very cool, very serious arts people.
Then at Gavin Hogg’s 40th year of painting retrospectives . Amazing, life affirming, deep journey.
I’m blessed with painters.
September 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Did a little reading during the week in Cahir Co. Tipperary.
At a painting exhibition launch night .
Lots of very nice, very cool, very serious arts people.
Then at Gavin Hogg’s 40th year of painting retrospectives . Amazing, life affirming, deep journey.
I’m blessed with painters.
At a painting exhibition launch night .
Lots of very nice, very cool, very serious arts people.
Then at Gavin Hogg’s 40th year of painting retrospectives . Amazing, life affirming, deep journey.
I’m blessed with painters.
Painting is a language and this one is an alien that wants to eat your soul.
Congrats Gavin Hogg
Congrats Gavin Hogg
September 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Painting is a language and this one is an alien that wants to eat your soul.
Congrats Gavin Hogg
Congrats Gavin Hogg
This is on its way to me though
September 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is on its way to me though
@nemoloris.bsky.social as it happens this arrived today …
September 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
@nemoloris.bsky.social as it happens this arrived today …
Great marketing @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
The gift of small chapbook with an Order, links to the author in the anthology… which if you like, links you to buying the authors solo book….
Nice. Job.
The gift of small chapbook with an Order, links to the author in the anthology… which if you like, links you to buying the authors solo book….
Nice. Job.
July 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Great marketing @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
The gift of small chapbook with an Order, links to the author in the anthology… which if you like, links you to buying the authors solo book….
Nice. Job.
The gift of small chapbook with an Order, links to the author in the anthology… which if you like, links you to buying the authors solo book….
Nice. Job.
Absolutely lovely to get a beautifully made book from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social on a Friday morning. Worth every penny. Steve Ely is a very good writer too. Looking forward to this .
July 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Absolutely lovely to get a beautifully made book from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social on a Friday morning. Worth every penny. Steve Ely is a very good writer too. Looking forward to this .
Well, it’s Clare Cavanagh why wouldn’t I buy it?
July 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Well, it’s Clare Cavanagh why wouldn’t I buy it?
A poem by John Berger ending his book “and our faces, my heart, brief as photos” 1984.
July 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A poem by John Berger ending his book “and our faces, my heart, brief as photos” 1984.
Never let a good recommendation go to waste … @dapowell.bsky.social :)
July 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Never let a good recommendation go to waste … @dapowell.bsky.social :)
June 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
From “House Inspections” by Carsten René Nielsen, translated by David Keplinger. Cc @dapowell.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From “House Inspections” by Carsten René Nielsen, translated by David Keplinger. Cc @dapowell.bsky.social