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The Book-Thief’s Heartbeat

Photo owned by Dan Strange (cc) Yeats’ writings are now in the public domain, it now being seventy years from the end …

William Wall 2007

Towards a Poetics of Anger

How should we describe the extraordinary consensus that existed in this country — a consensus that united us all around core concepts …

James Liddy RIP

…The sad, baffling news of James Liddy’s death, the mentor of my youthful verse and friend of almost 40 years. I always …

Sydney Bernard Smith

Sydney Bernard Smyth 1936-2008

This sad news from Poetry ireland: Sydney Bernard Smith Poetry Ireland was saddened to hear of the passing of poet and writer …

Brian Lynch reading

Brian Lynch will talk about and read from his novel ‘The Winner of Sorrow’ in Pearse Street Library next Wednesday 14 May …

The Parlour Review Encore

Note: some of the links in this post will bring you to amazon.co.uk Just under a year ago, I had the pleasure …

New Books

Two new books, out of thousands of others, are on the shelves today – The Wow Signal, by Patrick Chapman, and Redemption …