Slimming for the Beach

The postal strike, now on hold, may have delayed some invites so if you are won­der­ing when and where my new col­lec­tion of verse, Dia­logue in Fad­ing Light, is to be launched, the answer is Hughes & Hughes Book­shop, Stephen’s Green Shop­ping Cen­tre, near the top of Grafton Street in Dublin, on Tues­day Novem­ber 15.
It’s already well stocked in at least some shops in cen­tral Dublin, which is not only grat­i­fy­ing, it’s sur­pris­ing, as poetry, we are told, doesn’t sell. I’m not sure if it’s yet in Books Upstairs in Col­lege Green, but as they are great sup­port­ers of poetry and all books Irish, I’m assum­ing it is. Unfor­tu­nately their new web­site isn’t yet ready. How­ever, Ken­nys of Gal­way def­i­nitely have it on their web­site.
I see it is not yet avail­able from
Amazon.co.uk but it can be ordered . I’m sure copies will be avail­able from there in a week or so.

Is that enough for you? :>)

I keep for­get­ting to update my own entry at Irish Writ­ers Online. Note to self: do it now!
More on the book­launch anon. Mean­while, full marks to pub­lisher New Island Books, who this evening pub­lished The New Hen­nessey Book of Irish Fic­tion. I was all set to go, when the rain came down. Actu­ally it came side­ways as there was, and still is as I write, a very strong wind. A pity. I was look­ing for­ward to a con­ge­nial evening with friends as well as hav­ing a warm glow inside (it was hosted by Hen­nessey, the cognac people).