PoetryForPoliticians

Because words matter. #ChangingTheMessage. #Poetry #Peace #BlueSkyThinking

[PoetryForPoliticians @Poems4Politics]

We are a small and lonely human race/showing no sign of mastering solitude/Out on this stony planet that we farm/the most that we can do for one another/is let our blunders & our blind mischances/argue a certain brusque abrupt compassion. #AdrienneRich #changingthemessage

[The John Hewitt Society @The_JHS]

'Unfinished Business' - the fight for gender equality in Northern Ireland. #JHISS

[PoetryForPoliticians @Poems4Politics]

@BoyleMo Yeah. Get it right. 👍

[Anne Tannam @AnneTannam]

Poetry extravaganza this evening at 6.30pm @Hodges_Figgis @ArlenHouse. I'll be reading alongside this clatter of amazing women writers @maryodonnell03 @JessicaTraynor6 @Nessao @BoyleMo Enda Wyley, @EileenCasey2, Mary Melvin Geoghegan #irishwriting #dublinevent

[Caroline Johnstone @CarolineJWrites]

Delighted to say I’m the new Social Media Manager for Women Aloud NI @WomenAloudNI - a cross community group supporting and promoting women writers in Northern Ireland ❤️

Stepping into big boots, mind. Thanks @IntrepidJane for all you’ve done so far for us!

[Patrick Brannigan also at bsky.social @PatrickJMB]

@poetryjukebox 255 days at @CrescentArts
It's all happening...
New curation coming. Advance listen.
#LitCrawlBelfast Poem, Pause, Poem
Poems by Heather Newcombe and Mairtin Crawford

[ACNI Writing @ACNIWriting]

TODAY @BelfastBookFest: @ArtsCouncilNI Check out the TropicalRavine at 12.30!; @Backmuir interviews novelist Sheila Llewellyn (@thelinenhall 1pm); poet Kevin Quinn on Robert Frost @CrescentArts; @FunnyBizzSF; @Sue_writer @berniemcgill; @Heresmehere on screenwriting; @mwendling

[Maureen Boyle @BoyleMo]

Funny to think this might be used to reserve sunbeds this summer! Delighted to have my poem 'Incunabula' appear in the 'Holiday Reading Book -Stories for the Holidays' from dtv press Munich. It's translated as 'Irische Sommer' by Gabriel Haefs!

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

“What we are talking about here is delivering on commitments already made. .. that .. full alignment will be maintained with those rules of the Single Market&Customs Union necessary to support North-South cooperation, the all-island economy& the GFA” @simoncoveney on EU-UK talks.

[PoetryForPoliticians @Poems4Politics]

@SiobhanFenton Yay!

[Alan Hayes : Arlen House @ArlenHouse]

Happy 89th birthday to the legendary Margaret Mac Curtain, feminist activist, educator, historian, nun, & one of the founders of the second wave feminist movement in Ireland @sinead_mccoole @GrainneBlair @MargaretWard1 @rraughter @WHAIreland @gender_ucd @UCDHistory @acis2018

[The Irish Border @BorderIrish]

YEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

[UCD Poetry @UCDPoetry]

A selection of #irishwomenpoets reading their work @ucdspeccoll for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive - Tara Bergin @AilbheDarcy @EleanorHooker_ Aifric MacAodha @JessicaTraynor6 and more! @poetryireland @PoetryProgRTE https://t.co/86FEFV9y1W … via @YouTube

[The Irish Border @BorderIrish]

@SarahLeeNotCake I actually took it as a threat that I would be covered with robot grass-cutting machines if I didn't stop being a pest

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses” - an interesting #JFK quote seen @JFKLibrary.

[Kathy D'Arcy 🏳️‍⚧️ @KathyDArcyCork]

@FiredIrishPoets can't wait for this! https://t.co/L05v6Cwk5N

[British Council Northern Ireland @BCouncil_NI]

It's #PeaceandBeyond day! We're looking forward to welcoming delegates from 27 countries for international dialogue around #peacebuilding - see you all soon! #GFA20 #GFA https://t.co/1YNUYCMCbb

[British Council Northern Ireland @BCouncil_NI]

20 years on from the #GFA, we've interviewed young people in Northern Ireland to find out their views on culture, leadership, marginalised communities & mental health - watch the full videos here: https://t.co/csQhbRlPSu #PeaceandBeyond #GFA20

[Seanín Hughes 🍉 @EnnuiHag]

My poem has won the national spoken word competition in support of #homeless #HousingCrisis #april7th. Speechless. https://t.co/7N3rllGG70

[Patrick Brannigan also at bsky.social @PatrickJMB]

This is really worth a listen from 19' 52". @maria_mcmanus with @OndrejKobza on @BBCFrontRow speaking about Poetry Jukeboxes. Ours is @poetryjukebox "amplifying quiet voices", https://t.co/DW1V6ftqY4

[Maria Iza B @MariaIzaB1]

@maria_mcmanus talking on Front Row tonight about @poetryjukebox (and the anniversary of The Good Friday Agreement) - 20 mins in- heartening to be part of this with wonderful poets such as @DoireannNiG @StephanieConn2 @DonaldsonMoyra https://t.co/IS3bbqhXHR