Author of memoir Call Mother a Lonely Field. Haiku poet (first collection Belfast Twilight just published by Salmon Poetry). Director of IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge/Irish-language Literature Festival.https://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mmibpgmdjc2elover's soft snore somewhere in the dark foxes cry out23 May 2026 01:18 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmibpgmdjc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mmhux672lc25The brutal treatment of the Gaza flotilla activists is truly horrifying. Broken bones, sexual abuse. 'You use words, we use guns', said one IDF member to an activist. Indeed. This is a psychotic nation. Any government with a conscience should suspend all trade and diplomatic relations with Israel.22 May 2026 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhux672lc25https://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mmh7hrmbp22g In Belfast again...22 May 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmh7hrmbp22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mmd4r2gyms2sTo Éireann Lorsung.21 May 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmd4r2gyms2shttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mmcdywfp322qNice review by Richard Hayes of Belfast Twilight, in latest issue of Poetry Ireland Review.20 May 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcdywfp322qhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mmbrcngxmk22the collective cracks all across the world everything is broken melting ice and starving polar bears icebreaker lost at sea sailing on the canal carrying diseased blood white steamers in the grip of a psychopathic god darkened lands of the earth20 May 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbrcngxmk22https://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mmbr4lzcbs22WE CANNOT BREATHE white cop kneels on a black man’s neck we cannot breathe from slave ships and Chicago abattoirs black sweat runs to the sea Sitting Bull’s ghost haunts stolen holy ground Mount Rushmore Bob Dylan tells the bitter truth again the anti-Christ is here20 May 2026 11:05 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbr4lzcbs22https://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mm73mzfzxk2pDiscover the range and depth of literature in Irish at this special one-day seminar in the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast on Friday 22 May. Admission free, email liam@imram.ie to register.19 May 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm73mzfzxk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mm5bhdqubk2uHaiku by Robert Crawford.18 May 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5bhdqubk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mm5anid65c27gentle rain falls into a fountain mother's last breath18 May 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5anid65c27https://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mm3aikwi2k23Latest poetry book booty. With a special thanks to Reid Hepworth for sending a signed copy of Loss is a River.17 May 2026 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm3aikwi2k23https://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mlyxbneywc2jSo, I just made a comment in Irish on Facebook earlier. Then somebody actually responded with this: 'please speak English. Your audience is so limited…If you wish to make a point make it..' One despairs sometimes.16 May 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyxbneywc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mlyfnuriws2rToday's charity shop haul, three for a fiver.16 May 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyfnuriws2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mlvpgygf2s2qHaiku by Bashō, translated by Jane Reichhold.15 May 2026 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvpgygf2s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mltfdginxc22A book of beauty published on this day in 1925. Here's the first edition.14 May 2026 17:57 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltfdginxc22https://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mltea7c26s2nDylan with kids on Dublin Street, Liverpool. Photo taken on this day in 1966.14 May 2026 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltea7c26s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mlt5kn7bp22hHaiku by Elizabeth Searle Lamb.14 May 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt5kn7bp22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mkvajvzzkc2iHaiku found in a biography of Lorine Niedecker the poet writes shooting stars staining the night sky hails the sun and moon mourns a fallen tree poet’s song field sparrows their song starts slow then a rush her poems no longer lie in wait early spring flood02 May 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvajvzzkc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mkstu6yhos2zquiet glen brimming with golden light a blackbird sings on and on01 May 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkstu6yhos2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mkqiz6csxc26LAZY FROG SOUNDS Haiku found in a biography of Lorine Niedecker scarf, jacket and three pairs of socks poet huddling in bed not a penny to fill the oil tank poet's poverty box of candy tied with a sprig of flowers gift for a poet shadows of trees all leafed out lazy frog sounds30 Apr 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqiz6csxc26https://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mklcicgspk2xWilderness You are the man You are my other country and I find it hard going You are the prickly pear You are the sudden violent storm the torrent to raise the river to float the wounded doe - Lorine Niedecker28 Apr 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklcicgspk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/liamcarson.bsky.social/post/3mkl7t5g7rc24Haiku found in a biography of Lorine Niedecker she wades through reeds shoulder high poet by a lake the poet hears an adagio on piano rain meeting water Beethoven and good boogie-woogie the poet’s favourite music Chopin leaves notes dripping like water the poet listens28 Apr 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:gfqzhpf2uz27wyg4ouj5em63/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl7t5g7rc24