Goodnight from Derry after a lovely evening of #FemaleLines@PlayhouseDerry! Thanks to #AnneDevlin for organising; @drdawnmiranda for compering & all fellow readers. Was a very moving evening & realise just how rare it is to hear a whole intergenerational range of female voices!
For #NationalPoetryDay I'm tweeting out one of my favourite poems, which I had to learn in preparation for my Leaving Cert - Child of Our Time by Eavan Boland.
#mwacis18#plenary Tom McCarthy speaking on the self-silencing of women after the civil war, how Eavan Boland’s work was revolutionary in decentering women in Ireland. And the bullying of Irish women poets that still continues today.
Happy #PeaceDay2018! To mark this, we've produced a series of essays inspired by our #PeaceandBeyond conference in Belfast earlier this year. Read the essays here: https://t.co/VefZH0LXzZ Contributors include @KaboshTheatre's @PaulaMcFetridge & @Prof_johnbrewer from @QUBMitchell
It's almost to the year since Fired! has its inaugural event in Belfast. This year we're even more FiredUp! Free event & all welcome. Readings by @DonaldsonMoyra @maria_mcmanus @PoetrySiobhan @alexpryce100 @BoyleMo @CelizMurray & many more. #HedgeSchool#Irishwomenpoets
Very excited to receive this in post. Looking forward to reading stories on the most significant women in Irish history, inc Anna Parnell, Markievicz, Maud Gonne, Alice Milligan & Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. Thank you @DevlinMartina & good luck with the book! A must read!
Spotted in the wild for the 1st time @wstonesbelfast - the beautiful new edition of my #FemaleLines co-editor Linda Anderson’s superb 1986 novel Cuckoo, reissued by the excellent @turnpikebooks! And look, only one copy left! 👀 Join us here for the launch next Thurs. 4 Oct. 7 pm!
Important scholarship, putting Ruth Carr, @grainnetobin104 Sally Wheeler and Ann Zell front and centre with their Word of Mouth work - incremental to change - plus it's a good read!
Just out and available from Peter Lang publishers, or on order from any bookshop, this critical study of my work in all genres. Delighted, and grateful to all who contributed! Full bibliography @MaynoothEnglish@UCCLibrary@tcdlibrary@UCD_English @nuiglibrary @MUlibrary
'We have not escaped hell...' Here is a powerful poem for #PoetryDayIRL by #FemaleLines contributor Celia de Fréine - 'Deirfiúracha/Sisters,' from her extraordinary collection Fiacha Fola/Blood Debts: @WomenAloudNI @poetryireland @PoetryProgRTE @NewIslandBooks@Read_Women
Take a listen to 14 great poems from our second #PoetryDayIRL Mix Tape with @Lagan_Press . We want everyone to read lots of poetry today, but we also want to celebrate the act of listening to poetry! Happy Poetry Day!
https://t.co/4cyfz5A2Zo
This evening, don't miss the amazing Eavan Boland in conversation with Olivia O’Leary on @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm & @PaulMcPoet looking forward to Poetry Day Ireland! https://t.co/gAW6aF1Yvh
Watch videos for three poems from 'What Else...', a special curation from Belfast's @poetryjukebox, marking the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
https://t.co/qbiMobMrC7