A special thanks to all who made it to my Out to Lunch reading in the Irish Writers’ Centre last Friday (see previous entry). I had forgotten it was a bank holiday, so a lot of friends family and acquaintances couldn’t make it. Some of them were working through the lunchhour. So it was a [...]
To those of you who regularly dip in – and there are a few – apologies for my long silence here. I haven’t been well since August, but thankfully am beginning to surface again. Last February or March, the inimitable John MacNamee asked me to read in his amazing Out to Lunch series. Amazing as [...]
Many moons ago, I met the artist Eileen Ferguson at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annamakerrig, the retreat for writers, artists and musicians. Eileen recently stumbled across my website and asked me to highlight a different kind of retreat outside Sligo town. Glad to. Here’s what she wrote. Anyway I am trying to contact writers [...]
This sad news from Poetry ireland: Sydney Bernard Smith Poetry Ireland was saddened to hear of the passing of poet and writer Sydney Bernard Smith. In the past Sydney had read for Poetry Ireland, has been a contributor to Poetry Ireland Review and his Poems 1957-2006 was favourably reviewed in PIR 92. He published a [...]