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🎉Applications are now OPEN until July 1st for our Poetry Critics of Colour mentorship scheme! 🎉
For full details of how to apply and the supports available, see below, or visit @poetryireland
We can’t wait to meet our new critics!
#loveirishresearch
maynoothuniversity.ie/DIPoet…
And of course @ShearsmanBooks have also just released Things That Happen, which publishes the pieces of this project together for the very first time: shearsman.com/store/Maurice-…
Just published by @ShearsmanBooks: A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric - Essays on the Poetry of Maurice Scully, available here: shearsman.com/store/Kenneth-…. With wonderful contributions from @lcollins232, @redochre1, @gentinwait @Michael_Begnal, and others I don't think are on here:
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Rhoda Coghill and Fired! explored by Kathy D'Arcy (@KathyDArcyCork) in the new HU. Read about it at humag.co/features/why-uncomp…!
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@MEASorg welcomes this important research by @lindacooganB on Gender Disparity in Irish Radio - solid quantitative data illustrating the underrepresentation of women on Irish airwaves. Ní neart go cur le chéile #equality #GenderDisparityRadioIre
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I struggled over this piece for a long time, and I can't articulate how important it is to me. It's written in rage and blood.
#WakeUpIrishPoetry
wakeupirishpoetry.ie
#Fired
@FiredIrishPoets
Rhoda Coghill and Fired! explored by Kathy D'Arcy (@KathyDArcyCork) in the new HU. Read about it at humag.co/features/why-uncomp…!
“A tight, mesmerizing chain of echoes”: the pantoum in Irish poetry. Irish Studies Review 28.1: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The 50th anniversary issue of @irishunireview is out-with excellent contributions on disability, #metoo, working class literature, diversity, activism, trans visibility, & digital humanities-to name just a few!
And my own essay 'On Being Precarious'
euppublishing.com/doi/full/1…
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Add your name here:
wakeupirishpoetry.ie
#WakeUpIrishPoetry
Nearly 200 artists sign letter urging action on sexual harassment, bullying in the arts (via @IrishTimes) irishtimes.com/news/social-a…
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MEAS is proud to support this initiative. The intersections of privilege, entitlement, exclusion and abuse, coupled with the refusal to reflect on structural bias, must be addressed by proper ethics and governance. #WakeUpIrishPoetry irishtimes.com/culture/nearl…
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Letter to the Editor: Public call for acceptable standards of ethics and governance in the Irish arts sector irishexaminer.com/breakingne…
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Thanks @LedburyCritics, this is great. Worth everyone reading xxx
Please read @LedburyCritics' response to @IrishTimes, published by MEAS: '"The absolute bedrock of literary criticism" is, according to Doyle, "selection on merit". But as any critic knows all too well, ‘merit’ is not neutrally applied nor can critical judgements be unbiased.'
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We interrupt our #GE2020 incessant retweeting to bring you some quite important statements from Anne Enright about ethics and governance in the arts, towards the end of this interview. Please read.
#WakeUpIrishPoetry irishtimes.com/culture/books…
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Please read @LedburyCritics' response to @IrishTimes, published by MEAS: '"The absolute bedrock of literary criticism" is, according to Doyle, "selection on merit". But as any critic knows all too well, ‘merit’ is not neutrally applied nor can critical judgements be unbiased.'
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Our letter to the Editor @IrishTimes in response to the Irish Times article on the 'Poetry Reviews in the Irish Times, 2008-2013: Gender, Race and Publishers'.
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Important work here by @McDaid_Ailbhe and @ken_keating_ of the @MEASorg collecting data on the @IrishTimes book reviews. A long but necessary read.
MEAS was gravely concerned by the response by @IrishTimes, in print and via correspondence, to our latest report, 'Irish Times Poetry Reviews 2008-2013'. We have compiled a thorough reply defending MEAS, detailing why issues of equality, diversity and representation should... 1/3
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This is important reading for people wishing to improve representation in literature in this country, written by researchers who work hard on their own time to make things better. It deserves to be taken very seriously, as do the writers whose erasure is revealed by this work.
MEAS was gravely concerned by the response by @IrishTimes, in print and via correspondence, to our latest report, 'Irish Times Poetry Reviews 2008-2013'. We have compiled a thorough reply defending MEAS, detailing why issues of equality, diversity and representation should... 1/3
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The publication includes a response from @LedburyCritics to the article's 'highly selective and, at times, erroneous' use of statistics from their 2019 report, available here: liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacu… 3/3