Derek Mahon wins Cohen Prize 

Caroline Walsh in the Irish Times reports that Derek Mahon has won the Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s work in poetry. I’m delighted for him, because as one who has struggled with the verse form there are lines in Mahon which I simply don’t know how they were made. Many congratulations on such recognition. The [...]

drb – Dublin Review of Books 

It’s a great pleasure to welcome the arrival of the new online journal, the Dublin Review of Books, otherwise known as drb. It’s a free quarterly online journal whose object is the publication of clear and insightful writing based on recently published books. Articles will normally be review essays of between 3,000 and 7,000 words. [...]

Integration 

If you’ve been here before you might notice the ongoing integration of my websites and blogs, under the benign canopy of WordPress I’m making fair progress, but needless to say it all looks a mess in Internet Explorer 6. How I hate that piece of software. It rates up there as one of the five [...]