Grainne Tobin

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@BoyleMo "Intelligence is what the enemy uses" - James Thurber, The Peaceful Mongoose.

[Angela T. Carr @adreamingskin]

Over 150 calls for submissions of #poetry, #fiction, flash, #nonfiction, #art, #photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in February 2025. Best of luck & pls share! https://t.co/Fn9tv196oc

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@MichaelRosenYes @ImogenGarfinkel It's pitiful.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@PENIreland @QUBelfast @englishpen @seamusheaneyest @DunneCatherine @libranwriter @mcmanusliz @ThereseKieran @JlodJohn @nphegarty @DonaldsonMoyra @celiadefreine @poetryireland @IrishWritersCtr I was supposed to be there tonight but am still wheezing and coughing, so will have to leave all the reporting to you, Catherine. Wish I could have made it.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@Okwonga Being good to anyone around us is all we can do at present.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@mckennalinda Great colours

[Alan Hayes : Arlen House @ArlenHouse]

NEWS
Arlen House poet Luke Morgan is the 2025 winner of the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award, USA.

His new collection, "Blood Atlas", will publish in March 2025 following his acclaimed "Beast" (2022) & "Honest Walls" (2016).

Thanks to David Gardiner & the University of St. Thomas.

[Newton Emerson @NewtonEmerson]

One way to keep children in education after 16 would be to ban Northern Ireland's grammar schools from kicking them out after GCSE to fiddle their league tables.
https://t.co/WH6Bh5KXEZ

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@the_rivermill You divil

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@mckennalinda @PENIreland @maria_mcmanus @Doirepress Wish we'd got there eatger than being stuck for hours in gridlocked traffic. Looking forward to the book.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@ThereseKieran @26characters @bloomsburyfest @JNSim @LisaJaneDavison @Soph_Gordon @RebeccaDowman @jsamlarose @MarkNoad @neilbaker You'd like Eilish Martin's !All Arme! which is just out from Macha Press and has an accompanying exhibition in the front hall of Ulster University's Birley Building. Lots of lettering and graphic play.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@DavidOlusoga It's horrible that this foolishness gets anywhere near you. Those TV programmes you make are so valuable.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@PPR_Org @AnakaCollective They are. I am horrified at this cruelty.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@PPR_Org @AnakaCollective @PSNIBelfast I couldn’t agree more. Actually catching the criminals and charging them is important. People should not be allowed to terrify others, much less commit criminal damage.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@BoyleMo Very sorry to hear that, Maureen.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@NaturalistDara That’s a wonderful thing to learn early - how to accept help. It will stand to you for the rest of your life. Very best wishes from a former Shimna teacher.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@PENIreland @BelfastBookFest @HoweMariehowe @ThereseKieran @DunneCatherine @libranwriter @maria_mcmanus @VivianaFiorenti @DonaldsonMoyra @mcmanusliz @celiadefreine @ShaunaGilligan1 @nphegarty @padraighanratty It was great to have her at the Belfast Book Festival, and at the PEN postcards desk.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@MartinDoyleIT I was shaken, for my own good, by that excellent book. My husband and I worked in that area in the 1980s and its lovely green landscape is shadowed for both of us by that everyday cruelty.

[Grainne Tobin @grainnetobin104]

@cielosueloastro @BoyleMo Maybe poetry requires a back staircase. Wordsworth had one at Dove Cottage.

[UHI Shetland EIS FELA Branch @EISFELAShetland]

Creative and Cultural Industries is one of the first departments to be hit by FE cuts at UHI Shetland - we know how vital some of the courses to be lost are to Shetland. @ShetlandArts @ShetIslandsCll @JennyGilruth @BeatriceWishart @amcarmichaelMP @PromoteShetland @EISFela