Slimming for the Beach

Poet Michael O’Dea has a won­der­ful Goya video on his blog. Worth check­ing out. I hadn’t seen some of them before and I’m a big Goya fan.

I hadn’t known Michael had a blog, but he sent me news of a recent pub­li­ca­tion for Irish Writ­ers Online, ie
a bilin­gual, Galician/English chap­book, Felos ainda serra, which was pub­lished in Gali­cia in 2005 by Amastra-N-Gallar. That’s Gali­cia in Spain, I take it.

Good for him. The only other Irish writer I know of who has been pub­lished in Gali­cian is Pearse Hutchin­son, about whom there will be a sym­po­sium in Trin­ity Col­lege Dublin next week to cel­e­brate his 80th birth­day, which was ear­lier in the year.
More about that anon.

Poetry and Mis­cel­la­neous Yap