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Each month we ask an author to recommend a book in our list that they think is brilliant; the only rule is that it should have been published more than a year ago.

Last month’s spotlit author, @flynnsc, recommends for your delectation fellow Irish poet @steverinod, whose powerful and wide-ranging 2023 collection As If It Meant Something looks you in the eye and tells life straight.

For the Shuffling the Shelves feature (link in bio) we have a quickfire round of questions for Steve, and he shares the poem that gave the book its title…

🌞 (50% off this month with #summerreading promo - use coupon summerreading on our site)

#beautifulbooks #poetsofinstagram #irishpoetry

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This month for our #shufflingtheshelves feature (brilliant books in the backlist that might have passed you by) we caught up with the wonderful @flynnsc, who told us about the inspiration behind his acclaimed #ecopoetry collection The Colour of Extinction. (Link to Shuffling features in bio) 🍁🌍

ICYMI the first time round, here’s @jadecuttle’s powerful review in the @obsnewreview. May the line ‘Flynn’s pen strikes the page like flint, stoking the fire of hope within’ resound! 🔥

#bookstagram #beautifulbooks #climatepoetry

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A great time was had at the inaugural @dublinsmallpressfair… and a wonderful excuse to hang out with some Dublin pals.

Here’s @flynnsc in the brilliant @hodgesfiggis, who keep his brilliant Colour of Extinction in stock – with hearty thanks to @jadecuttle for making it @obsmagazine poetry book of the month when it was published 🙌

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⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

S.C. Flynn @flynnsc was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His collections are “The Colour of Extinction” (Renard Press, October 2024) and “An Ocean Called Hope” (Downingfield Press, May 2025).

The Storms is supported by @fingalartsoffice @fingalcountycouncil @dublincityoflit @dublincitycouncil

Arrives Nov 2025

#poetry #prose #visualart #printedjournal #madeinireland☘️

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‘An Ocean Called Hope’ is topping the Amazon poetry charts. 🎉Help us reach number 1, support a great poet, and don’t miss out on this moving collection! ✨🌟📚BUY NOW: https://downingfield.com/an-ocean-called-hope

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Join us for the first of our Writers Showcases!

This new Irish Writers Centre event series spotlights newly published writers across the island of Ireland.

The theme for our first Writers Showcase is 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 which features five poets from various parts of Ireland.

🗓️Wednesday 18 June 2025

🕣6.30pm - 8.30pm

📍Irish Writers Centre, Dublin

🎟️ €5 (book via Eventbrite) link in bio @irishwriterscentre

Meet the line up:

S.C. Flynn will be reading from his second collection, 𝘼𝙣 𝙊𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙃𝙤𝙥𝙚, publishing 26 May this year. His poetry has been published in more than a hundred magazines around the world.

Afric McGlinchey’s will be reading from her most recent poetry collection is 𝘼̀ 𝙡𝙖 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚 𝙚́𝙩𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙚 – 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙙𝙮𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙅𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙚́ (Salmon Poetry). Her hybrid memoir, 𝙏𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙 (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), follows her nomadic African/Irish childhood and was translated into Macedonian.

Luke Morgan is a poet and filmmaker living in Galway. The recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award 2025, an award given by the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, to an Irish poet. Luke will be reading from 𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝘼𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙨, his eagerly awaited third collection from Arlen House.

Lauren O’Donovan has won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize, the Southword Subscriber’s Poetry Prize and, most recently, the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her chapbooks 𝙏𝙖𝙭𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙮 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 and 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 were both published in 2025.

D’or Seifer is a poet living in Limerick. D’or’s debut collection, 𝙊𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙐𝙣/𝘼𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 was published by Revival Press earlier this year. She founded and runs the online poetry series Lime Square Poets, and co-hosts the First Wednesday Series in Limerick. D’or also co-edits @skylight47poems magazine.

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Look what arrived in today’s post? The very first copies of @flynnsc’s An Ocean Called Hope, coming 26 May online and at all fine book shops! #bookstageam #poetry #newbooks #newrelease

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Some eco-poetry for your Thursday?
@waterstonesfinchleyrdo2 @flynnsc

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Absolutely over the moon to see this glorious review by @jadecuttle in the @obsnewreview this weekend, with @flynnsc’s stunning new #ecopoetry collection chosen as the book of the month.

‘Pulsating with tidal energy, S.C. Flynn’s imaginative first collection is a harrowing wake-up call shot through with hope… Flynn’s pen strikes the page like flint, stoking the fire of hope within.’

https://renardpress.com/books/the-colour-of-extinction/

#bookig #bookstagram #poetry #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #climatechange #climatepoetry #climatepositive

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My latest poetry column for @obsnewreview ✍️🏽Three months into picking the book of the month (& some upcoming features!) - next month's pick includes metal detecting @ninearchespress ✨️

The Colour of Extinction by S. C. Flynn – finding hope in the climate crisis 🌱

From melting glaciers to burning forests, The Colour of Extinction could easily spark despair. However, in this startlingly imaginative first collection by the Dublin-based poet S. C. Flynn – published by @renardpress one of Britain’s first “climate-positive” publishers planting a tree for every order – the bleak narrative of crisis is brightened with hope.

Some therapists ask their clients, “What colour do you associate with that thought?” It is a popular approach for visualising and tackling problems. Flynn innovatively explores this technique with regards to ecology. What image of the future can humans conjure and hold? Are we hurtling towards darkness or instead into the light? [...]

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