Sinéad Gleeson
@sineadgleeson.bsky.social
Not here much 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Thanks Elte, Hetmoet, my brilliant Dutch translator Astrid Huisman & @literatureireland.bsky.social. Next week’s Dutch & Belgian dates:
The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thanks Elte, Hetmoet, my brilliant Dutch translator Astrid Huisman & @literatureireland.bsky.social. Next week’s Dutch & Belgian dates:
The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
Re-reading Amongst Women for work and had forgotten how terrifying Moran is. One of the sourest patriarchs in Irish literature. It’s uncomfortable reading; constantly feeling uneasy for the characters, a mark of how masterful McGahern is. Very glad that Ireland is long gone. @faberbooks.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Re-reading Amongst Women for work and had forgotten how terrifying Moran is. One of the sourest patriarchs in Irish literature. It’s uncomfortable reading; constantly feeling uneasy for the characters, a mark of how masterful McGahern is. Very glad that Ireland is long gone. @faberbooks.bsky.social
Sublime, face-melting brilliance from My Bloody Valentine. Wore out Loveless and the Glider EP in my teenage bedroom, so almost wept on @urchinette.bsky.social’s shoulder when they played ‘Soon’.
Ears in recovery today. Great work @foggynotions.bsky.social.
Ears in recovery today. Great work @foggynotions.bsky.social.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Sublime, face-melting brilliance from My Bloody Valentine. Wore out Loveless and the Glider EP in my teenage bedroom, so almost wept on @urchinette.bsky.social’s shoulder when they played ‘Soon’.
Ears in recovery today. Great work @foggynotions.bsky.social.
Ears in recovery today. Great work @foggynotions.bsky.social.
So true. If Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone had not gone to Paris to study with André Lhote and (particularly Albert Gleizes), they might not have become the Cubists they did. The influence is so clear.
L: Gleizes’s Composition, c 1932-1935
R: Lhote’s Rugby, 1917
L: Gleizes’s Composition, c 1932-1935
R: Lhote’s Rugby, 1917
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
So true. If Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone had not gone to Paris to study with André Lhote and (particularly Albert Gleizes), they might not have become the Cubists they did. The influence is so clear.
L: Gleizes’s Composition, c 1932-1935
R: Lhote’s Rugby, 1917
L: Gleizes’s Composition, c 1932-1935
R: Lhote’s Rugby, 1917
Lizzie Stewart’s graphic novel Alison is one of my favourite books of recent years. Really looking forward to The Wreck, out next April. www.penguin.co.uk/books/463433...
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Lizzie Stewart’s graphic novel Alison is one of my favourite books of recent years. Really looking forward to The Wreck, out next April. www.penguin.co.uk/books/463433...
He's a great photographer. You'll recognise lots of his shots of musicians for music magazines... www.pyke-eye.com/Music/1/capt...
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
He's a great photographer. You'll recognise lots of his shots of musicians for music magazines... www.pyke-eye.com/Music/1/capt...
Beautiful work in Holding Space by Sara Baume and Mollie Douthit - on at Molesworth Gallery until November 30th. molesworthgallery.com/exhibitions/...
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Beautiful work in Holding Space by Sara Baume and Mollie Douthit - on at Molesworth Gallery until November 30th. molesworthgallery.com/exhibitions/...
We read a LOT of books for the Nero Book Awards Fiction category and it was hard to whittle it down to four.
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We read a LOT of books for the Nero Book Awards Fiction category and it was hard to whittle it down to four.
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
Recommended reading:
* What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
* Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
* The Two Roberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
#NeroBookAwards
Ana Mendieta, #BOTD in 1948 in Cuba. An extraordinary artist who used the body and landscape in an elemental way. I keep going back to her work (she’s in my first book, and the next one). This piece includes a link to a radio essay for RTÉ this year. momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-touchst...
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Ana Mendieta, #BOTD in 1948 in Cuba. An extraordinary artist who used the body and landscape in an elemental way. I keep going back to her work (she’s in my first book, and the next one). This piece includes a link to a radio essay for RTÉ this year. momentsofrecognition.substack.com/p/on-touchst...
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hagstone lands in Dutch next week. Doing events in Holland & Belgium very soon, including three with @elainefeeney.bsky.social. Join us!
📘The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
📘The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Hagstone lands in Dutch next week. Doing events in Holland & Belgium very soon, including three with @elainefeeney.bsky.social. Join us!
📘The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
📘The Hague 04/12, De Vries Van Stockum
📕Brussels 05/12, Passaporta
📗Ghent, 05/12, Boekhandel Limerick
📙Amsterdam, 06/12, Roode Bioscoop
Info: hetmoet.com/agenda
Dorothy Waugh's incredible 1930s posters for US State Parks. Exhibiton runs at NYC's Poster House until February. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Dorothy Waugh's incredible 1930s posters for US State Parks. Exhibiton runs at NYC's Poster House until February. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Portrait of Olga von Hartmann, c 1910 by Gabriele Münter
(also features in the next book, alongside Packie Bonner)
(also features in the next book, alongside Packie Bonner)
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Portrait of Olga von Hartmann, c 1910 by Gabriele Münter
(also features in the next book, alongside Packie Bonner)
(also features in the next book, alongside Packie Bonner)
See Red Women's Workshop poster, 1975
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
See Red Women's Workshop poster, 1975
Such an atmospheric novel: Fellini, Pasolini, the politics and aesthetics of film-making, Venice, artifice, eroticism, Rome’s Cinecittà studios, love, the rise of fascism - and Pasolini’s murder. Great work by Olivia Laing.
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Such an atmospheric novel: Fellini, Pasolini, the politics and aesthetics of film-making, Venice, artifice, eroticism, Rome’s Cinecittà studios, love, the rise of fascism - and Pasolini’s murder. Great work by Olivia Laing.
Happy birthday Helen Garner. Am reading How to End A Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998, which just won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and it’s like a map for writing
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Happy birthday Helen Garner. Am reading How to End A Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998, which just won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and it’s like a map for writing
Spotted on the way out…
(Good morning, courtesy of jet lag)
(Good morning, courtesy of jet lag)
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Spotted on the way out…
(Good morning, courtesy of jet lag)
(Good morning, courtesy of jet lag)
Wonderful launch London’s National Portrait Gallery for How to Live an Artful Life by Katy Hessel of the Great Women Artists podcast (and excellent Instagram account). Honoured to have a piece in it. www.penguin.co.uk/books/471552... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Wonderful launch London’s National Portrait Gallery for How to Live an Artful Life by Katy Hessel of the Great Women Artists podcast (and excellent Instagram account). Honoured to have a piece in it. www.penguin.co.uk/books/471552... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Readers and Writers Against Genocide did amazing work at the festival, raising awareness. Thanks for the t-shirt.
Saoirse Don Phalaistín 🇵🇸🇵🇸
Saoirse Don Phalaistín 🇵🇸🇵🇸
November 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Readers and Writers Against Genocide did amazing work at the festival, raising awareness. Thanks for the t-shirt.
Saoirse Don Phalaistín 🇵🇸🇵🇸
Saoirse Don Phalaistín 🇵🇸🇵🇸
UBUD Writers festival is like nothing else. Extraordinary setting, venues, and programming. Lots of political events and widespread support for Palestine too. Met so many wonderful writers (oh the translation chats…). Onwards to London for the Nero Book Awards judges meeting.
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
UBUD Writers festival is like nothing else. Extraordinary setting, venues, and programming. Lots of political events and widespread support for Palestine too. Met so many wonderful writers (oh the translation chats…). Onwards to London for the Nero Book Awards judges meeting.
UBUD Writers festival is like nothing else. Extraordinary setting, venues, programming. Lots of political events and support for Palestine too. Met so many wonderful writers (oh the translation chats…) Onwards to London for Nero Pri
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
UBUD Writers festival is like nothing else. Extraordinary setting, venues, programming. Lots of political events and support for Palestine too. Met so many wonderful writers (oh the translation chats…) Onwards to London for Nero Pri
Casual walk on hotel grounds today interrupted by 8/9 ft snake. Possibly one of these - it was super fast so I didn’t see the head properly - but a hotel employee told me tonight that it might have been a cobra. Delighted that the bathroom has ceramic bricks with large open gaps to outside. 😱
November 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Casual walk on hotel grounds today interrupted by 8/9 ft snake. Possibly one of these - it was super fast so I didn’t see the head properly - but a hotel employee told me tonight that it might have been a cobra. Delighted that the bathroom has ceramic bricks with large open gaps to outside. 😱
Looking forward to both of these:
In the Back of My Throat, an anthology of queer Indonesian writers, and Finding Sita in the Indies by Jakarta-based writer and theatre-maker, Angelina Enny (we were on a panel together earlier at UBUD Writer's Festival and her reading was incredible).
In the Back of My Throat, an anthology of queer Indonesian writers, and Finding Sita in the Indies by Jakarta-based writer and theatre-maker, Angelina Enny (we were on a panel together earlier at UBUD Writer's Festival and her reading was incredible).
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Looking forward to both of these:
In the Back of My Throat, an anthology of queer Indonesian writers, and Finding Sita in the Indies by Jakarta-based writer and theatre-maker, Angelina Enny (we were on a panel together earlier at UBUD Writer's Festival and her reading was incredible).
In the Back of My Throat, an anthology of queer Indonesian writers, and Finding Sita in the Indies by Jakarta-based writer and theatre-maker, Angelina Enny (we were on a panel together earlier at UBUD Writer's Festival and her reading was incredible).
Yesterday’s opening of UBUD Writer’s festival at the Royal Palace, with traditional Balinese dancers. Trying to figure out how old the tree with the treehouse is… (people included for scale).
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Yesterday’s opening of UBUD Writer’s festival at the Royal Palace, with traditional Balinese dancers. Trying to figure out how old the tree with the treehouse is… (people included for scale).