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An Innovative Airbnb Online Experience – Discover the Haiku Poet Within with Beir Bua Press Poet, Tim Murphy
This is such an exciting way to host a poetry workshop and bring poetry to new readers/writers. Tim…
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Spot your fave BBP poet and their book. First half of 2022 works. For me, it’s corn.
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Sphinx Reviews Young in the Night Grass by Tim Murphy.
“When a poet provides an introduction plus notes, it’s worth reading….” A fantastic review of Tim Murphy’s collection…
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Submissions are open for Beir Bua Journal – Visual Poetry.
I am excited for this sub window! I see so many great images on Twitter that opening the…
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Zines? Concertina Books? With Visual Poetry?Like Poetry Objects? Cool.
I love publishing at Beir Bua Press, the layout, design, cover, launches…but I am a poet, a visual…
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Keep readingClare Dunne reads ‘This is not a confessional poem’ by Paula Meehan (b. 1955)
Below from https://www.druid.ie/productions/coole-park-poetry-series-2021 Collaborating again with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, ten short films, performed by a cast of…
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Mr. Lighting – A Concrete Poem by Dylan King
About this visual poem, as dictated by the poet to me (Michelle Moloney King 😉 I wanted to…
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What is Experimental/Innovative Poetry; Post-Avant? Beir Bua Press asks and Twitter Answers.
This strated off with BBP asking the below question and then the discussion sparked was too interesting to…
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T. S. Eliot Prize Nomination Cormac Culkeen
Beir Bua Press is delighted to announce that our 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize Nomination goes to Cormac…
Keep readingBe ∞ Cause JP Seabright for Beir Bua Journal. A Video/Film Poem
JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer writer living in London. They have three pamphlets published: Fragments from Before…
Keep readingMarie Mullen reads ‘Caitlín’ by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (b. 1952)
Below from https://www.druid.ie/productions/coole-park-poetry-series-2021 Collaborating again with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, ten short films, performed by a cast of…
Keep readingAndrew Bennett and Rory Nolan read ‘Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest’s Parlour’ by Paul Durcan (b. 1944)
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What is Experimental Poetry? asks Beir Bua Press and the Answer – Cygnetism.
What is experimental poetry? Rule breaking, constrained, mindset work? Playing with time, altering how we use language, freeing…
Keep readingThe LOSS, a video poem, by Carl Oprey
Artist statement I tend to start with a narrative. Sometimes that narrative is a photograph or an experience.…
Keep readingJade Jordan reads ‘The Lost Art of Letter Writing’ by Eavan Boland (b. 1944)
Below from https://www.druid.ie/productions/coole-park-poetry-series-2021 Collaborating again with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, ten short films, performed by a cast of…
Keep readingVenetia Bowe reads ‘The Architectural Metaphor’ by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (b. 1942)
Below from https://www.druid.ie/productions/coole-park-poetry-series-2021 Collaborating again with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, ten short films, performed by a cast of…
Keep readingBrian Doherty reads ‘A Disused Shed in County Wexford’ by Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
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Keep readingO Crystal Party,after Andrew Rihn’s ‘O Sugar Party’, by Ilias Tsagas
Ilias Tsagas Shreds of dawn between my temples freeing me from terror. We meet in the black market:…
Keep readingMarty Rea reads ‘Station Island VII’ by Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
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Keep readingSeán McGinley reads ‘Another September’ by Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928)
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Keep readingOut of the Ordinary : On Poetry and the World
A Conference in Canberra on December 5-7. 2022 Out of the Ordinary: On Poetry and the World is a…
Keep readingBook Launch | The Artist’s Eye on Galway at the Galmont Hotel
04/07/2022 – 06/07/2022 – 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Galmont Hotel, Lough Atalia Road, Galway City The Artist’s…
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Future Pass by John W. Sexton
A collection by a poet who is not a poet but the writer of a poem, an experiment…
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Noble Rot by D. S. Maolalai
With a title of Noble Rot it sets the tone for a collection of juxtaposition and startling oppositional…
Keep readingAaron Monaghan reads Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘The Hospital’ | Coole Park Poetry Series 2021
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Keep readingNo Man’s Land | Hugh Pocock at Burren College of Art
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 23, 6-8pm Symposium: No Man’s Land: Art & The Rights of NatureFriday, June 24, 5-7pm…
Keep readingWATCH – Tommy Tiernan reads Austin Clarke’s ‘The Echo at Coole’ | Coole Park Poetry Series 2021
Our love for Matthew Thompson film work and poetry has no end – watch. Just watch. Below from…
Keep readingTHE GREAT DYING by S.C. Flynn
THE GREAT DYING The predators are returning to the cities; their gleaming eyes flit through rubbish dumps and…
Keep readingI love to see the old heath’s withered brake by Robert Sheppard
from (Un)threading Clare: part of British Standards: book three of The English Strain I love to see the…
Keep readingTarte aux fraises deconstructed (1) by Birgit Wildt (writer) and Ursula Wildt (artist)
Birgit Wildt (writer) is published in Selcouth Station, Streetcake Magazine, Visual Verse, Overground Underground, The Pomegranate London, NUNUM,…
Keep readingA “mark” is a mole, and a “mark” is a cry by Nathan Austin
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…
Keep readingMichael Hartnett Poetry Award Competition
Deadline: 17 Jun 2022 The Michael Hartnett Poetry Award will be opening for submissions in late April for their 2022…
Keep readingImager by Sanjeev Sethi
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,…
Keep readingUniversity of Limerick – Creative Writing Festival 20-22 May 2022
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…
Keep readingmoving parts/mixtape by Jane Ayres
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…
Keep readingStudio Vacancy | The Guesthouse INHOUSE Studios, Cork
The Guesthouse Project presents local artists or collaborative groups with an opportunity to develop their work in the…
Keep readingReading in Dalston this Thursday, and a poetry commission – update from Sophie M Herxheimer
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…
Keep readingFrozen Meat – Vispo by James Knight
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…
Keep readingListen to Penteract Podcast with Anthony Etherin, Andrew Hugill and ChristianBok discussing Pataphysics, The Beatles and more
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…
Keep readingSupporting poets and their furure poetry. There is no leader board at Beir Bua Press.
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…
Keep readingMarch Launch of TERRACES: a choreography by Scott Thurston and Impression by Owen Bullock. Open Mic with Tom Jenks, Sophie Herxheimer and Carl Oprey.
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…
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in the palm of my hand All shifts on its axisIn precise movementsWhen sleep concealsThe foal-like stepsOf a…
Keep reading15% off our most popular experimental books & calendars
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.…
Keep readingÉcoute and Grav · ity by Shine Ballard
—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…
Keep readingA Picture of Good Health by Marie Gethins
Marie Gethins’ work has won/placed in the Blackwater Press, Dorset Fiction Award, Allingham, The Short Story, Words by…
Keep readingAre You The Little Death? by Kristin Garth
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.…
Keep readingGET IN THE HABIT – 12 WEEK COURSE with StreeyCake Editor, MumWrite’s Nikki Dudley
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,…
Keep readingCashel Arts Festival, Print Van Go and Michelle Moloney King
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…
Keep readingBeir Bua Press open subs for the first time and you will not believe what they are calling for!
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