Don’t ask me how I found them, but I was idly surfing the other night when I found two poetry links which have given me a lot of pleasure and which I want to share with you now. The first is a feature by the great American poetry magazine – called, simply enough, Poetry – [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]