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Ian Irwin

@mrirwin

Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poet 2022. Published in Poetry Review, Propel, Alchemy Spoon, Outcrop, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, Trasna. Photographer.

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Sunday’s Kiss The Sky had many highlights. Manganaro’s headline set was powerful, drawing on q’s of identity, language, place, connection. They’re touring venues across the country with their debut pamphlet ‘This Is Where I’m From’.

We’ve got a great eve lined up for Mar! 📸 @mrirwin.bsky.social

24.02.2026 15:49 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Cheers @citizen-chris.bsky.social for the mention! Fun night at Kiss the Sky 😘🌌

06.02.2026 14:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of an Instagram post noting the arrest of Alice Oswald for supporting Palestine Action.

A screenshot of an Instagram post noting the arrest of Alice Oswald for supporting Palestine Action.

Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.

09.08.2025 23:39 👍 156 🔁 49 💬 2 📌 6

Delighted to have been shortlisted by @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social for their debut chapbook competition 🙏🏻🦊⭐️

25.07.2025 06:17 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much!

25.07.2025 06:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

photo by Sam Cavender

22.07.2025 08:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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on the mic @rtbspokenword.com last week...
a brilliant event with quality open mic and a privilege to share the feature spot with Kaycee Hill

22.07.2025 08:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Come and see myself and Kaycee Hill perform for @rtbspokenword.com next Tuesday 15th July
tickets available here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the...

07.07.2025 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fady Joudah at Bristol Folk House last night with Sabrin Hasbun as part of Awraq Festival. Challenging, essential conversation and poetry.
awraqfestival.com
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www.outspokenldn.com/shop/fadyjou...
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08.06.2025 11:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thank you @echepoetry.bsky.social 🙏🏻

08.06.2025 10:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fady Joudah UK tour 2025 - Awraq Festival (UK Tour)A conversation with Fady Joudah Fady Joudah is the author of […]. He has also published five other collections of poems, including Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is ba...

Tonight (Saturday 7th) in Bristol and Monday (9th) in Cardiff - an opportunity to hear a reading and conversation with Palestinian poet Fady Joudah www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the... awraqfestival.com/2025-festiva...

07.06.2025 16:21 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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beside my sister, beside the sea by Ian Irwin beside my sister, beside the sea I push against the water sure to stay near     my own geometrya moment        where I’m guarded  from light I’m alone and scared; our pastjust air - the bend of space ...

'beside my sister, beside the sea' out now in Dust issue 14
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i.m. Clare Chadwick 1969-2013
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@dustpoetry.bsky.social thank you for including my work
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/beside-...

07.06.2025 12:24 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Have fun Wendy!

04.06.2025 15:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I love this cover! Excited to have a poem in @dustpoetry.bsky.social issue 14, out Saturday 🌊

04.06.2025 12:16 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

delighted to be included in the FIRST @echepoetry.bsky.social with amazing poets...
check it out here echepoetry.co.uk/one

02.06.2025 06:46 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you 💚 @echepoetry.bsky.social

01.06.2025 18:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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31.05.2025 12:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Available now from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social go get it

30.05.2025 04:32 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Edited by Richard Scott – Submissions open to 31 May 2025

Propel Issue Sixteen, July 2025, Edited by Richard Scott – Submissions open to 31 May 2025

We're super-excited that the wonderful Richard Scott will be editing Propel Issue 16 (out end-July 2025)!

SUBMISSIONS are OPEN to 31 May

If you're a UK/IE-based poet yet to publish a full collection, do send us your poems > propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

05.05.2025 08:24 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

Amazing!

13.04.2025 16:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

you should pre-order NIGHT TERRORS from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social right now!

11.04.2025 10:29 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A joy to be present at @tomsastry.bsky.social book launch and to take this candid little snap @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

25.03.2025 12:26 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Time to preorder Night Terrors from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social including a piece from me 💚

22.03.2025 12:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wander the archive! Find my poem! (Summer 2024 p46 👍🏻) Happy #worldpoetryday
Thanks @poetrysociety.bsky.social

21.03.2025 13:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah yeah 🤣

13.03.2025 12:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is this a new poem?!

13.03.2025 12:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Issue 8.0 - Carmen et Error cherry chapstickby Jenny Danes walking to the date with katy perry ribboned around my brain in a hopeful bow  in the first pub our knees touch & i remind myself that she will be able to feel it  that ...

a piece in Carmen et Error from last year...
Thanks to @thebraag.bsky.social for publishing it 🙏🏻

carmenerror.com?page_id=370

11.03.2025 07:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Wendy.. it was a great night 🙏

09.03.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📸 📖

09.03.2025 17:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tonight @bookhaus.bsky.social 🩷 plus @mrirwin.bsky.social walked me to the station so I didn’t get lost ❤️❤️

07.03.2025 21:22 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0