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Financial Journalist ( @RIABiz ), Poet & occasional Academic Shares financial work, poetry & musings many. Latest book here:
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I was so happy my copies arrived from
@Downingfield
, I...
Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, my second collection just landed in my house. Critically praised, a Scotsman book of the year, pick up a copy and bring me back to life!
#poetry
#writing
#ireland
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@sadarlo1
Any time I hear about this kind of malarkey (or talk to the two folks I know into it), I'm always left baffled.
It's like they went how can we suck all the fun out of just being in love, and then they invented this systematised, itemised, billed, reported, adminified thing.
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@IrishTimes
It's very odd how globally this is framed. This is like British colonials demanding an African state renounce its past. The unionists are colonial descendants. Welcome to stay, but not to demand the indigenous people abandon heritage to abate their squeamishness.
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New record, had a piece with *73* rejections just get accepted by a journal I've been keen on being published in for years.
My learning experience? Often the work genuinely is good, it just needs you to trust it.
#WritingCommunity
#poetry
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It's Sunday, we're housebound... Buy some deep and meaningful poetry exploring recollection, wonder, place, and madness. 'gwan... You know you'll feel better when you do.
#poetry
#writing
#SupportTheArts
#SundayThoughts
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@EthanRisque
@Delistyle4
@Stephengm99
@BerserkGoldfish
@SwannMarcus89
@Tyler_The_Wise
Thank you!
Was just about to say this.
Vegetables in fridge... It's not rocket science.
I think the issue is people wanting to eat exactly what they decide on. They never learned to look in the fridge, see what they've got and then make something.
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@BenjaminVanDyne
Yup.
I remember having to write a bit chunk on research methodology and outreach applying for my pure theory PhD in complex in complexity.
I have no idea how many times I basically rephrased read books, talk about books, ponder, ponder publicly.
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@Mr_Considerate
Its definitely baffling that we have colonists and their remainder lecturing their former subjects on propriety.
I wonder how other postcolonial nation's would feel about being told to be quiet about their songs of freedom?
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@fantastic_vol_2
@TheLincoln
Came here to say this. It was insane.
Also a shout out to the weird ai bros who keep saying criticism Is ableist.
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@joelyfitch
I'm both, And gravy with both.
Only found problem with the authenticity my truth brigade who think their life = art.
Non solipsistic writers? Never saw any discord.
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@Dr_ElleScott
As a human, I admire your genuine desire to help others elevate themselves.
As a poet and artist, I absolutely despair and will never consider your advice.
Language is beautiful & I'll never limit mine, or its breadth, in exchange for greater accessability.
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For those in
#writingcommunity
and
#poetry
who get depressed with rejections.
Always worth remembering editors work extremely hard, & 'not a good fit' 99% of the time = 'not a good fit'.
Just had a piece I like picked up by a very solid journal.
Prior rejections: 62.
#art
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@ErvineLinda
This lad is very strange.
He does realise he lives in Ireland, right?
Also assaulted by a script? Does he feel assaulted by French on a trip to Paris?
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@shrutesnladders
Works across the board. For me:
In my journalism: what is the story, not the data? In my academic work: how does this change the conversation? In my poetry: what is the value of meaning?
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@constans
Begins with television & the death of working men and women's clubs.
Next comes the anti-intellectual wave in the second era of TV & the absolute erosion of the idea of the working class communities that taught each other.
Scores more waves followed.
It's a trackable process.
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@andrewhoyer
Supporting places like Starbucks is a big part of the reason for this. When we move control of our local amenities to mega-corps, they will use their power to sweat revenues. They simply do not care about the individual.
Avoid all chain stores whenever possible.
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A month ago, Ken Fisher's "lewd" comments sparked a crisis that saw $4 billion flee his firm. Now he's flaunting liberal credentials and asset growth, but many don't buy it. Some interesting developments here.
#RIA
#Assetmanagement
#financialnews
#business
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"Like some great orchestral suite ... an astonishing rolling surge of poetic energy and purpose ... the city is fortunate to have him"
Humbled by
@joycemcm
's review in
@TheScotsman
@beirbuapress
#writingcommunity
#poetry
#books
#poetrycommunity
#art
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@zhuphilia
I literally just had a very similar discussion elsewhere, over the strange way in which 'accessibility' has become tantamount to a moral play, when it is purely an aesthetic (and I'd say a demonstrably poor one) choice. Those who oppose it are more often than not 'immoral'
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My new work, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, just dropped
"Breen is writing at a pitch few other poets of his generation can muster," says poet & prof. Alan Gillis
Buy it & please share this post
@beirbuapress
#writingcommunity
#poetry
#books
#art
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Good Night sweet Wilbur.
He passed away this evening, snuggled in my arms, aged 10.
A quirky, odd soul, with boundless sweetness.
I will miss him very much.
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@chillsubs
The excessively gushing rejection letters. Stop telling people they are beautiful wondrous dinosaurs with spangly shiny teeth.
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@geschwartz58
I mean, isn't it really more the other way round now?
I'm not sure there's that much of an ivory tower left to speak of.
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On this fine Sunday, do what
@dorotea_lanza
does. Take a risk, try something new, indulge yourselves in grabbing a copy of this new collection of wild words, thoughts and dreams.
#poetry
#writing
#SupportTheArts
#SundayThoughts
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@EmmaDabiri
@MartinDoyleIT
In Dec. I was at a party chatting to a (v. sweet) 60ish Cambridge banker & two scholars whose families had hailed from Zimbabwe. He refused to accept I wasn't British, or they Rhodesian. We were apparently 'all wrong' & 'muddled', though 'good sorts'. We tried a bit, then gave up
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@MrHWM
@PetreRaleigh
It's really really really strange. I mean, by 16 I had cds by Mingus, Biederbecke & Miles... It seems insane not to want to learn about all the absolute best that humans made, rather than just wander around in the mire of mediocrity of any given year. Shouldn't you want the best?
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1 month since the book launched. Phew! The first-run sold-out. The second gathers steam with 15 awesome reviews. Now, I ask if you've read it, tell someone else to follow suit. If you haven't, click this link, read reviews, take a chance. You'll like it.
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@RoisinCNorton
Nearly did the same fully at 16. It was like a phenomenal pain not being close.
We didn't. We had thought to wash dishes in Paris.
I fled post LCert to Galway (her home) learned much, loved deeply. This part was wonderful.
I have often thought how different all had we fled.
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@MrHWM
Why is it so anathema to American discourse to note it? First five minutes I visited your lands, it was obvious. Lovely place, lovely people, ridden with major class issues, and I do mean major. None of the policy efforts will work without recognising & engaging class & wealth.
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@DannyDrinksWine
Ulysses (Joyce), Trilogy (Beckett), At Swim Two Birds (O'Brien).
How Harry Became a Tree; The Commitments; The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
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@Nick_Davidov
Yeah, 'learn much faster', no. Typing a prompt is not a skill, nor do you learn how to make art.
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@YouKnowWhoIAmIE
I mean, I hate the music, but she's a very talented lass and it's great to see such cultural fusion happening.
Also such fusion tends to spark some very cool artistic developments as time passes by.
As far as I recall (though I'm hazy) wasn't tap an Afro-Irish fusion?
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Four years ago, my oldest friend
@donalocaoimh
(a legend for his work in mental health) picked up my first book.
I now have two (a third in 2025). Be like Dónal, buy a book (details below).
@downingfield
@Dreich25197318
#poetry
#writing
#books
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@parkerfiftyone
@TheLincoln
@dreamosaurus
Burn them.
Also remind them everything is not relative, but relational, and quality is not subjective, merely taste.
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I'm convinced, the poet that pursues art, they're motherfucking holy.
There is no reward.
You do it because you must.
Fucking saints.
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Inching closer to reality, my second collection. Excited :)
Going to have to figure out launches, soon!
Title page, not cover page.
#writingcommunity
#poetry
#art
#literature
#writing
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@___frye
Personally, I'd say there's a middle ground. I'm not opposed to Julie Dempsey renting two properties. I am opposed to large corporations owning hundreds and sweating the assets. I'd simply limit the amount of residential properties any actor (including subsidiaries) can own.
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Woo.
Lady & I are doing a whirlwind 2 day NYC 3 day Montreal 14 day Calgary (Stampede!) trip. Just booked! Including a train from New York to Montreal.
This is gonna be fun!
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And the move Is complete.
I am finally, delightfully, a resident in full of Trinity in Edinburgh.
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@Tyler_A_Harper
100%
Once when I taught EFL I got the girls in the class (all Italian) to collectively boo the macho boys who didn't know how to cook at 17, explaining that their athletic bragadiccio (several u18 footballers) had limited shelf life, but kitchen skill lasts a lifetime.
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@BeckyLTuch
At some point, right, this is all going to collapse...
You have X number of talented people producing content, Y number of talented people editing, Z number reading, A number of journals.
At some point these numbers have to come into balance a bit more.
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So, I'm predominantly a poet, a journalist, and at times an academic, but in a strange quirk of fate, I appear to have both written a rather unusual short story and just had it accepted for publication :)
I'm quite happy about this.
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@CaitlynBBS
Interestingly, I've been actively opposing this year, in conversation turned to history. We Gaels were thrived prior to conquest, genocide and colonisation, and we're thriving now, too, unshackled from the yoke. Christ, Sean's Bar in Athlone is older than the English state.
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@JoyceCarolOates
True, though helicopter parenting & the removal of children from the commons/public space is clearly a tragedy, just not sure it's a new thought. Feels like my cohort (85-90) were the last bunch to free roam
My dad once put me out the door when it was sunny & said be back at 6.
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@improvGM
@MrHWM
@PetreRaleigh
I confess I've never made the commedia-Tim Allen connection, so I may have just spluttered tea onto my dressing gown.
Love it!
Also agree.
It's fascinating, terrifying, myopic, possibly unstoppable, and sad for the loss for the 'mainstream' of more common kenning of 'quality'.
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@MissusVee
I mean, love is a strong word, but I have good memories of mall-ratting it in the rain as a teen, and it's not bad as a building.
It could, of course, be replaced by something nice and no one would care. It's just the issue with what they want to replace it with. An alternative:
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Bit of a milestone just reached, too. 200 individual poems published in 101 journals, over 20 countries :)
Kinda chuffed with that number 200! All hail the spreadsheet.
#WritingCommunity
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& with that, 'The Kerygma' is done and on its way to
@salmonpoetry
in Ennistymon, Co. Clare.
4 Years of work now hurtling across land and sea to the publisher!
#writingcommunity
#poetry
#art
#writing
#books
#publishing
I did edit the photo, nice old lady = blurry as hell.
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@noisesmith
@MrHWM
@PetreRaleigh
You're both right, but it takes seconds to feel curiosity, and seconds in the Internet age to open a tab and explore the world.
I'll not buy that an algorithm makes it impossible to wonder or to feel curiosity to explore.
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@improvGM
@MrHWM
@PetreRaleigh
I think you're probably quite right.
I'm not sure this is a good thing.
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@GrogansPub
The mustard jars will be quivering in anticipation, their little yellow heads bucking against the soft protective seal, and hereafter we must vow to never again let the tongeful of amber gold and its accompanying porter go a day without us rhapsodising their everlasting union.
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Your once every month reminder that all aristocrats should have their titles stripped, land seized, wealth redistributed and inheritance removed.
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The
@TBQuarterly
Paris Review shenanigans were funny, but, I'm curious about PR. Its interviews remain stunning, 1/5 of it's monthly stories, too. But after three years of subscribing, I never read a single good poem, they were, at best, trite and desperately vanilla.
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Every time I'm home in
#ireland
, I love it. also get gobsmacked at the
#ripoffireland
price rises every few months. The hotel I used last year is up 1,500%. Rents for dingy rooms in rough areas top nice bits of Manhattan, 6 room dorm beds for 150 a night. They're killing Dublin.
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@schmackelstan
@ValueStockGeek
Amen.
Also, though I am partial to fine-dining and a good suit, I can't for the life of me figure out how it's not sufficient in terms of outgoings.
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@EMTJimbo
@RobLooseCannon
I don't know it actually (just googled, and no result). But very much agree on the man.
Earned his place as a true Dublin character.
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Pleasure to share five pieces just out in
@Dreich25197318
:)
#WritingCommunity
#art
#poetry
#writing
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@Tyler_A_Harper
As a European who finds tipping culture ridiculous and totally at odds with a good society paying a fair days wage, I vaguely went 'grr', then noted that someone else already went grr and you offered a cogent and reasonable response, so went, 'yeah fair'.
Your point was solid.
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That's it! Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín is out in the world. Widely praised, great fun, a storming read, and damned unique, I hear!
Buy
#Ireland
:
Buy globally:
& share
#books
#poetry
#art
#literature
#christmas
@downingfield
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Exactly 1 year ago, Hybrid published my debut: . It realized a long-held dream.
Now,
@wiloma
has capped it off with a truly exceptional review, capturing exactly what I aimed for in the book for
@TheSeattleStar
Give it a read!
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@RoisinCNorton
Dear god.
Joyce is her favourite author? Has anyone on this shoot read Joyce?
How on earth do western cliffs remind her of flipping Joyce?
Why is her Irish love interest English?
I last about 8 seconds before I felt like setting fire to them all.
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As part of my campaign that people should dress up more when they go out during Covid-19. Here's me out for my Friday constitutional before getting back to an evening of work.
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@YouKnowWhoIAmIE
Yeah totally disagree with most of Leo's policies, and think he mismanaged a whole lot since he took the reins, but these strange people wandering around going 'traitor' are a weird lot.
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@hoagie_fun
I was one of those odd millennials born into a house with computers in '85. Always had computers
The Internet is far older than I, and began in the sixties, so actually its first users were born anywhere between 1900 and 1942 or so. It's highly likely someone from 19th C used it
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@timothygreen
Aha! For once I disagree. Or likely do. If it's honesty in being hard, and bearing the judgement and analysis of the work without vanity, then okay, I agree.
But art is artifice, simply being honest is not art, authenticity is irrelevant, quality and craft is what matters.
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@ambernoelle
I'm just waiting around for the death of normcore & dress down. Hopefully by the time I'm 50 we'll get a decade long renaissance of people dressing up no matter what they do or where they're going.
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@eeury_
@JodieRobins
You're certainly defensive over this artist that isn't you.
Have you read my work?
Also popularity among the mainstream is no indicator of quality.
The fun part is I actually entirely support your right to loathe me :)
But this is another person's thread so let's stop now :)
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@PatrickFreyne1
To be fair, they are excellent lines. The first time I read them I spluttered out loud, and I shall likely continue to wryly chuckle every time they come around again.
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Thanks to
@beirbuapress
for a cracking reading event, and to
@jeremyallan
for being awesome, and to all the guests (I'd tag you if I could, but I can tag
@SCyFlynn
,
@AmyBarry12
&
@divinetailor
, so thank you!)
Had an absolute hoot.
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Seeing this in the flesh, for the first time
Always dreamed my work might warrant it.
A real honour that my little book, Lilies, through
@downingfield
, is side by side, with bonafide stars:
@jim08218867
, Lochhead,
@McCallSmith
@GerdaStevenson8
, one of five.
#books
#poetry
#art
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@sashahearts
Mine had her main meal at lunch time (so dinner), and then tea and supper, tea could be anything from rashers to kippers to a few sausages to a salad, soup, sandwich, etc. etc., and supper would usually be toast, or a small slice of cake.
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"The work of the best Irish poet currently writing in English," says Dr. Paul Thompson of St. Andrews, reviewing Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, now available through
@Downingfield
:
Review:
Purchase details in the next post.
#poetry
#Ireland
#writing
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