It’s taken me almost a year since I first mentioned it to my agent, Lisa, and publisher Antony Farrell, but at last I’ve got around to putting my first novel The Fabulists, online for free downloaded under a Creative Commons Licence (or License, if you are American). Initially I’ve posted it in WordPress, one chapter [...]
Image source John McGahern.com This is old news by now, but in case you haven’t heard, John McGahern died suddenly on Thursday, March 30th. I was on the road when his death was announced, en route to read with the delightful Scaldy Detail contributors in The Potato Market in Crescent Quay in Wexford town, so [...]
I’m off to Wexford town on Thursday to read as a guest in Readings from The Scaldy Detail, at 8.00pm in The Potato Market on the Quays, as part of the Wexford Book Festival. The Scaldy Detail, as I’ve mentioned before, is the Enniscorthy literary magazine edited by Eamonn Wall and published by LaunchPad. Featured [...]
It isn’t often I attend an event to read just one poem, but that’s what I’ll be doing on Friday night, in support of the M3 Motorway and the Hill of Tara Litigation Fund. The venue is Drimnagh Castle, Dublin, on Friday March 24, 6pm to midnight. A lot of money needs to be raised, [...]