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THE GREAT DYING by S.C. Flynn
THE GREAT DYING The predators are returning to the cities; their gleaming eyes flit through rubbish dumps and…
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from (Un)threading Clare: part of British Standards: book three of The English Strain I love to see the…
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Birgit Wildt (writer) is published in Selcouth Station, Streetcake Magazine, Visual Verse, Overground Underground, The Pomegranate London, NUNUM,…
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Nathan Austin‘s work has recently appeared in P-Queue, Babel Tower Notice Board, Guesthouse, and Afternoon Visitor; more work is forthcoming in petrichor and Touch the…
Keep readingThe Moth Short Story Prize
Deadline: 30 Jun 2022 The Moth Short Story Prize 2022 is now open for submissions. Three winning stories…
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Deadline: 17 Jun 2022 The Michael Hartnett Poetry Award will be opening for submissions in late April for their 2022…
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Imager In the hearth of your bear hug: I thaw multiple reminiscences. This tableau never calls off its…
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AMERICAN EPIC: ON PATERSON byCiarán O’Rourke
A winner of the Cúirt New Irish Writing Award, the Fish Poetry Prize, and the Westport Poetry Prize,…
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VENUE: IRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DANCE A highlight of early summer for all readers and book…
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The Boy with the Radio by Cormac Culkeen
Longlisted for Laurence Sterne Prize 2021 Cormac Culkeen is a writer of poetry, fiction and short stories. He…
Keep readingTEBAHPLA TELEGRAM by JP Seabright
JP Seabright wayward word-wrangler. GenderFux is OUT NOW from Nine Pens Press NO HOLDS BARRED IS OUT NOW from Lupercalia PressFragments…
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moving parts/mixtape could/must/should try harder (easily distracted) has potential potent i al – so rant can’t – o…
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The New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31 May 2022 The New Zealand Poetry Society is open for submissions for their annual international poetry…
Keep readingLittle England by Pramod Subbaraman
Little England Indian Immigrant, little England Is a funny place, pokes fun Pramod Subbaraman is a poet who…
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The Guesthouse Project presents local artists or collaborative groups with an opportunity to develop their work in the…
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I’m reading poems & telling fortunes live at Burley Fisher Books this Thursday 21st April, evening in Dalston.…
Keep readingOpportunities for WritersOnline: Lime Square Poets – weekly poetry reading and open mic from Limerick & Cork, Ireland
Lime Square Poets hosts a weekly poetry reading and open mic from Limerick & Cork, Ireland, and publishes…
Keep readingCall for Participation | On Dying by Luci Kershaw
Do you have a fear of death or dying? As part of my research and for a short…
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Motherly Beach kiosk sells drinks, coffee and snacks In May, it becomes an ice-cream shop * Toddler falls…
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Ciarán O’Rourke lives in Galway. His first collection, The Buried Breath, was highly commended by the Forward Foundation for…
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Channel, a Dublin-based literary magazine publishing poetry and prose that fosters human connection with the natural world, is…
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Frozen Meat (due out soonish with Sweat Drenched Press). The individual poems are untitled. Frozen Meat embodies the…
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We Irish Our mothers and fathers and brothers Left the ash corner deserted the shamrock The emblem of…
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This needs a second listen. Echoed so much of what I thought on the Beatles – pretending to…
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BBP Poet, Mark Lindsey to be guest editor at Sheffield University Journal Route 57,
So delighted for Mark, and not one bit surprised. Gosh, Sheffield Uni is turning out serious poetry talent…
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Belated Happy First Contact Day from Beir Bua Press, Co. Tipperary Ireland.
HAPPY FIRST CONTACT DAY 🖖🏻 from @BeirBuaPress First Contact Day, the Vulcans first make contact with humans in…
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It’s important to support eachother, there is no competition or leader board. I set up a list of…
Keep readingFrom Fibs to Fractals. Exploring mathematical forms in poetry by Marian Christie – a review by Mike Ferguson
From Fibs to Fractals. Exploring mathematical forms in poetry by Marian Christie In 1969 I gained a Grade…
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I’ve known and enjoyed the work of Tom Jenks for a few years – both his output as…
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How thrilling to be publishing such innovative work from an Irish publisher by UK and Australian poets. Launch,…
Keep readingPart-Time Dole by Isidora Durán Stewart
Isidora Durán Stewart (she/her) is a Chilean-Irish artist and writer. She strives to tell the truth through reimagining…
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Lianne O’Hara is a poet and writer from Amsterdam. She writes poetry, prose, and drama. In 2020, she…
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Lianne O’Hara is a poet and writer from Amsterdam. She writes poetry, prose, and drama. In 2020, she…
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Barney Ashton-Bullock is a published poet with queer themed poetry pamphlets/collections ‘Mottled Memoirs’ (Cherry Red, 2014), ’Schema /…
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Julia Rose Lewis and Beir Bua Press. A Mini Interview.
I started writing because there was something bothering me, a thing that I wanted to put into the…
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Tom Jenks and BBP – Mini Interview
1. Why did you start writing? I wanted to write lyrics but had no music. 2. What tips…
Keep readingvispo – Architecture – Motion Sickness by Barnaby Smith
Barnaby Smith is a poet, critic, journalist and musician currently living on Darug and Gundungurra land in Australia.…
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Daragh Fleming is a short fiction writer from Cork in Ireland whouses a conversational style to delve into…
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Fran Fernández Arce (@dylanblue3) is a Chilean poet currently living in the intersection between Santiago, Chile, and Suffolk,…
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Margaret Viboolsittiseri is a visual poet with pieces currently showing with the nonprofit Uniting US at several art…
Keep readingBeir Bua Poetry Press and Sustainability in Publishing
Our printers are based in London and are certified as a B Corporation to measure our impact on the…
Keep readingMichelle Moloney King
About Michelle Moloney King With an undergrad in Computer Science, a primary school teacher and with a passion…
Keep readingPerpignan by Tim Murphy
Perpignan Transient ghosts cope with the paradoxof knowing how to handle flawsby killing off costive thinkingwith a merciful…
Keep readingInterview – Elizabeth M Castillo
intro: British/Mauritian. Poet. Writer. Indie-press promoter. Plant-lover. Polyglot. Homeschooling mother. Everyone calls me Lizzie. When / why did you…
Keep readingClockwork – hesitancy – hesitancy by Nathan Anderson
Nathan Anderson is an experimental poet from Mongarlowe, Australia. He is the author of Deconstruction of a Symptom (Alien Buddha…
Keep readingPsilocybin by Tim Murphy
Psilocybin A silken clay courage casts a netfrom the house of fear. The guild stops to sighbut the…
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Jenny Byrne lives in Dublin. Her poetry has appeared in Impspired, Drawn to the Light Press, Black Bough…
Keep readingShe Inherited J.I. Kleinberg
J.I. Kleinberg’s poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. An artist, poet, freelance writer, and three-time Pushcart…
Keep readingTime Signature by Breda Joyce
Breda Joyce’s poetry has won and been shortlisted for several awards and appears in various anthologies and literary journals, the…
Keep readingin the palm of my hand by Ronan Fenton
in the palm of my hand All shifts on its axisIn precise movementsWhen sleep concealsThe foal-like stepsOf a…
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Innovative and genre breaking: buy now while sale lasts. poets: all 2021 Beir Bua Press poets, authors and…
Keep reading“Boy with a Box Full of Wasps”, “Son Rising”, and “Raspberry Bushes” by David Estringel
Boy with a Box Full of Wasps Sweet nothings, whispered under breath, melt ears like sonnets scribbled on…
Keep readingThree untitled prose poems – Michael Mc Aloran
== …black bite snare/ beckons of/ blood still as/ cleft the sheet-wind’s overthrow/ of what else as if…
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MumWrite Anthology 2021 Launch
Join Beir Bua Journal editor, Moloney King who will be reading, and streetcake Editor, Dudley, who will be…
Keep reading“Figment of Silence”; “Perpignan”; and “Psilocybin” by Tim Murphy
Figment of Silence A biomorphic abstraction frames an application that keeps repeating itself. The environment is limited. Dense.…
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—POEMs included : including a few notes for the editor(s)/reader(s) to understandcontext post-reading, if so inclined. Écoute –…
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JP Seabright is a queer writer living in London. Their work can be found in Babel Tower Notice Board, Fugitives…
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Marie Gethins’ work has won/placed in the Blackwater Press, Dorset Fiction Award, Allingham, The Short Story, Words by…
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Are You The Little Death? “A few weeks after Mrs. Lisbon shut the house in maximum-security isolation, the…
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30% off Beir Bua Press for Black Friday
Black Swan + Black Friday = 30% discount! This is the perfect time to invest in cool poetry,…
Keep readingvispo – ‘O’, ‘R’, ‘Unicycle’ by Teo Eve
Teo Eve is a poet and fiction writer based in Nottingham. Teo’s poetry has been published by streetcake magazine and…
Keep reading(This poem is dedicated to organisations working for the return of missing people) vispo – Seth Crook
Seth Crook lives on Mull, is transitioning into a seal. His visual/word poems have often appeared in Streetcake.…
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Are you ready to take your writing seriously and give yourself time to do something you love? Hi,…
Keep readingRead Me by Lin Nelson Benedek
Read Me Read me loud Read me like a Read me cover to cover Read my lips eyes,…
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Hi, Editor here (Moloney King) Just popping in to share about the arts and South Tipperary. Cashel Arts…
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My cup of coffee is cold black as the hob and painting leaders of the past. Their distinguished…
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Kids poetry! Guidelines are here.
Keep readingConcertina by Mark Ward
ConcertinaYou don’t know how to be alone.You don’t know how to bealone. You don’t know how tobe alone.…
Keep readingErasure poem by Moloney King based on a speech by Irish revolutionary, Thomas Francis Meagher, 1846.
Published in Beir Bua Journal this is a form of performance poetics using blackout / erasure on a…
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Andrew Nightingale (@andrenothingale) has recently had his poetry appear in Ink Sweat & Tears, The Crank and Sein und Werden, and his…
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Winners Jane Ayres – edible Mark Lindsey – NEXT TO NOTHING and THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A STORY…
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Written from a series of single-source centos drawn from H. Saito’s Monograph on Prepositions. ABOVE, BELOW, BENEATH, OVER,…
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Bronaċ Ferran is a Belfast-born, London based curator and writer. Her poems have appeared in the Belfield Literary Review and Delhi-London Poetry…
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Seth Crook lives on Mull, is transitioning into a seal, has taught philosophy at various universities. His poems…
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Izzie Murphy is 26 year old queer writer from the north of Dublin. Their speciality is in creating…
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Beir Bua Journal used to do anthologies but as we have so many submissions in many different types…
Keep readingSpecters Of Consciousness and Slow Collapsing Within Self by Wayne Mason
Wayne Mason is a writer and sound artist from central Florida USA. He is the author of six…
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Bio: Kenneth M Cale lives in Oregon and is the author of two chapbooks, Midnight Double Feature (Sweat Drenched Press) and elsewhen (Ghost City…
Keep readingThe Good and the Gone-to-Seed
Water won’t allow a lake for long before the river breathes again. Ruins watch us, weathered, by now only bones: no roof, no catch-basin barrel, just windows and doorways…
Keep readingVispo by Mercurius / Thomas Helm
Written into BBJ ed, Moloney King’s colleciton out with Beir Bua Press.
Keep readingVISPO – Your words not mine, No Way and Enduring by Steph Morris
Your words not mine (#1 Digging, 2019)No Way (April 2020)Enduring (thanks to Ian McEwen, summer 2020) Steph Morris’…
Keep readingBaby Loss Awareness Day – Beir Bua Press Donating 100% Revenue.
100% of revenue going to Féileacáin Ireland in honour of Baby Loss Awareness Day Oct 15th 2021. THis…
Keep readingBeneath by Billy Fenton
Billy Fenton lives in South Kilkenny. His work has been published in the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Irish Independent, Crannóg, Honest…
Keep readingDogs and Butterflies, Tin Box and Other Botanical Herbs by Sekhar Banerjee
Dogs and Butterflies In the middle of an empty traffic, I findan auctioneerselling all Zebra crossings in autumn.…
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Figment of Silence A biomorphic abstraction frames an applicationthat keeps repeating itself.The environment is limited. Dense.A server programs…
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Reductio Ad Absurdum, Hold The MayoPainting over an anomaly or cultivating anoutsider image, sitting on a cardboard suitcase…
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FISH White and black, red and yellow, colors, on their best behavior, swim about in a garden pond.…
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Orphanage (for Ami Yoshida and Utah Kawasaki) Bio:Richard Capener’s writing has been featured in Sublunary Editions’ Subscriptions, M58,…
Keep readingOcean 2030 – an experimental short film by Moloney King
As part of Beir Bua Journal’s ASMR but with an experimental edge. Director, Production and Creative Design –…
Keep readingLife is a Labyrinth, Wearing a scuba mask and Unlock-up by Simon Maddrell
Life is a Labyrinth (We like to think) It’s really a maze A euphemism for mistakes Not having…
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Holly Jackson is a 34-year-old writer of poetry and short fiction from County Durham, UK. Her work has…
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The National Campaign for the Arts- A NEW JOURNEY INTO A BETTER FUTURE
NCFA PRE-BUDGET 2022 SUBMISSION: A NEW JOURNEY INTO A BETTER FUTURE As we move towards full capacity re-opening…
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Oh wow, this was fun to make. I always find if gas when I share my bio as…
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Bio: Aysegul Yildirim is a researcher and an emerging writer based in the UK. Her work has appeared in The…
Keep readingCríostóir Mac Rodáin – – as part of the Lyrical Irish Poets
Christopher Mc Crudden is a English and History teacher. He proudly hails from the beautiful Gaeltacht area of…
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