The Lifeboat
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Poetry publisher based in Belfast. Readings hosted by @closeandslow & @Manuela_Moser.
Belfast
Joined February 2013
For example, did you know that Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire, which we published in the spring, is the @PoetryBookSoc's Autumn Pamphlet Choice? If you didn't, you do now, and we're delighted You can buy it here: https://t.co/Ogl1bBZbr3
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Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire …. From the Olympics? @DonVanDolt ‘s incredible sporty pamphlet featured in this write up 🔔🔔
This week's Meg's Monday Muse is all about sports, in celebration of the #Paris2024 Olympics. Featuring titles from @bansheelit, Lifeboat Press, @brokensleep, @Carcanet, and @SerenBooks. Read it here: https://t.co/kKflhXL70h
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Another beautiful poem from this anthology of contemporary queer Irish writers. This one by @NiChurr
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Saturn Devouring, a brand new pamphlet of poems by Simon Costello. The poems are opulent, visceral, wry and hedonistic. They're really, really good, buy it now! https://t.co/OKI9izAxG8
@SimonCostello13
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BUY HERE from No Alibis Bookshop BUY HERE from Books Upstairs Saturn Devouring is a work of linguistic misdirection. Summoning from the cosmic to ground itself in damp fields and cattle sheds, ...
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We've been busy working away on some publications, including our first single author book! Little Acts of Vigilance, by Miriam Gamble, is a collection of essays on art, intimacy, paranoia, poetry and much more. Buy it here, it's really good, we promise
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BUY HERE from No Alibis Bookshop ‘Miriam Gamble evokes place by writing about its thresholds. Her essays bring us to the ‘bounds of the known’ by way of a devotional attention to the particularities...
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‘The streets are bare at noon as though inhaled’ - from Leontia Flynn’s new collection, ‘Taking Liberties.’ What a poet.
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a friend of mine's a bit disappointed they can't contribute to the Nobel discourse, not having read anything by the new literature laureate - they said, 'I don't know what all the Fosse is about'
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'The Bodybuilders in the Parking Lot of Gold's Gym, Venice, California'
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Hang on, I'm going to tweet a poem from it so you can see how good it is
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And because it's Poetry Day, it also means The Lifeboat has awoken from its summer slumber, with lots of good Lifeboat-y news
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It's National Poetry Day, which means children across the country are waking up to see if Simon Armitage has been, and whether he's drunk the white wine spritzers they left out for him on the mantelpiece
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Thanks for the write up @closeandslow! You can see The Half Moon at @lyricbelfast and then in @ThePleasance at @edfringe. https://t.co/cVi73kSZ9H
https://t.co/sRvZKdY1Wt Beaut photo of our @_rubycampbell by Johnny Frazer
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I REMEMBER being in the upstairs room of The Pothouse (which has undergone what seems like a dozen name changes since then) on the corner of Waring Street and Hill Street on a Tuesday night in early...
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We’d like to ask anyone who has a couple of pounds to spare to consider donating to the @aislingghear fundraising campaign. Read about this groundbreaking Irish language theatre company here: https://t.co/7QHSJKoCWR Donate what you can here: https://t.co/ffMpAynB3K
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AN award-winning Irish language theatre company is facing closure due to funding cuts.
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Hi Belfast! Come join us in @Sunflower_Pub to celebrate these two stunning pamphlets by @DonVanDolt and @WilliamKeohane_ ⚪️ Sunday 18th at 8pm ⚪️
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We're thrilled to announce that Some Integrity by @Padraig_Regan has won the Lammy Award for Gay Poetry! The @LambdaLiterary Awards recognise the very best in LGBTQ+ literature. Congratulations Padraig for this fantastic achievement! 🎉🎉 https://t.co/4sy5LZQY2W
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Hi Belfast! Come join us in @Sunflower_Pub to celebrate these two stunning pamphlets by @DonVanDolt and @WilliamKeohane_ ⚪️ Sunday 18th at 8pm ⚪️
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I love The Lifeboat and was very proud to be part of this gorgeous gorgeous book
The world was all before them ~~~ an anthology produced for Tulca Festival of Visual Arts in Galway, featuring new work by @SimonCostello13, Miriam Gamble, @DonVanDolt, @michaelmagee__ , @Padraig_Regan, Trenna Sharpe and @sachaclare27 ~~~
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The world was all before them ~~~ an anthology produced for Tulca Festival of Visual Arts in Galway, featuring new work by @SimonCostello13, Miriam Gamble, @DonVanDolt, @michaelmagee__ , @Padraig_Regan, Trenna Sharpe and @sachaclare27 ~~~
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'experiment with bold colour feature walls; and at one point introduce a dog' 💙 Here's 'alignment' by Anna Loughran from 'Chords of Inquiry'🌹Soon to be in a workshop for trans poets & arts enthusiasts at @littledeercmx with @translibdub #PoetryDayIrl
https://t.co/t0O1rV9VeA
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