Literary Twitterati: from support for Fighting Words to disapproval of wallpaper

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Harper Collins Announce an All Star Irish Line Up in Support of Roddy Doyle's Fighting Words - <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BeyondtheStars&amp;src=hash">#BeyondtheStars</a> - <a href="http://t.co/xD8nZoQJ0F">http://t.co/xD8nZoQJ0F</a>

To kick off National Poetry Month, here's a fantastic short story by Paul Theroux: "Poetry Lessons." <a href="http://t.co/plcgseZdmh">http://t.co/plcgseZdmh</a>

We have just heard that there are portraits of Irish Writers on show at Gallery No. 6 on Anne Street..<a href="http://t.co/pVIXKKl4R5">http://t.co/pVIXKKl4R5</a>

Ted Hughes making a Waste Land joke to T.S. Eliot, 1959. (Bet every letter to Eliot in April had the same P.S.) <a href="http://t.co/WCDhbUmQmC">pic.twitter.com/WCDhbUmQmC</a>

Surgical tips for writing: <a href="http://t.co/PtQRx8sEY3">http://t.co/PtQRx8sEY3</a>

Those of you who've been claiming you haven't read The Luminaries because it's so heavy... the paperback is out today! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23noexcuses&amp;src=hash">#noexcuses</a>

Wow! Amazing book deal for Irish debut author Jax Miller - also well done to <a href="https://twitter.com/inkwellHQ">@inkwellHQ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/simontrewin">@simontrewin</a> ! <a href="http://t.co/Fs5kRv939c">http://t.co/Fs5kRv939c</a>

Oscar Wilde's last words were"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go." <a href="http://t.co/Ks3pi6mtq0">http://t.co/Ks3pi6mtq0</a>

THE ACCIDENT, by Chris Pavone: if you like real nail-biters, this is the best one so far this year.

I was told not to operate machinery today. But here I am, on a computer.