Poetry: Aoife Lyall
photo: Ruth McKee 'poetry is a way of happening, a mouth'—W.H. Auden https://www.youtube.com/embed/nuA4hStlFUA Silt, by Aoife Lyall It gathers in the riverbeds and basins of your hands.
Shortlist for Dalkey Literary Awards 2021 Announced
€30,000 Prize Fund For Irish Writers To Be Awarded At Dalkey Book Festival In June The shortlist for this year’s Dalkey Literary Awards presented by Zurich has been announced by the Dalkey Book Festival, in conjunction with Zurich Insurance. The winners of the 2021 Novel of the Year and...
Conjuring a courageous heroine: Laura King on Nuala O’Connor’s Nora
Nora|Nuala O’Connor|New Island|Paperback €16.95|ISBN: 9781848407893 by Laura King The subtitle “A Love Story” is apt in a number of ways when describing Nora by Nuala O’Connor; it’s clear from the opening pages that this is a work of great love. The novel details...
Catherine Murphy on Lucia’s War, by Susan Lanigan
Lucia's War|Susan Lanigan by Catherine Murphy It’s a wonderful thing when the cover art for a book leads the reader so perfectly into the story as this design for Lucia’s War. Before even opening the book there is music, war, and Lucia herself. I love...
A loosening and tightening knot: Eoghan Smith on the artistry of Joanna Walsh
Seed|Joanna Walsh|No Alibis Press| 2021|Limited Edition Set|ISBN: 9781838108113 by Eoghan Smith Seed, by the acclaimed multidisciplinary writer Joanna Walsh, was first published by Visual Editions in 2017 as a digital interactive app. The relatively straight-forward narrative, described as a ‘queer coming-of-age story...
Digital, diverse, dazzling—Cúirt International Literature Festival 2021
by Emily O'Brien, Cuirt Production and Administration Assistant Cúirt International Festival of Literature is still going strong. What began as a vital, small space for poets and readers from the west of Ireland grew into a worldwide exploration of what it means to read, write and love books. Now...
London Book Fair 2021 to be digital only
The Online Book Fair will run in June, with full-scale in-person event postponed to 2022 The London Book Fair 2021 will go ahead as a digital only event, creating opportunities for the publishing industry to meet online, following the impact of the global pandemic. The in-person format will return...
Alison Hackett on haiku and humour in Knot of Toads
Knot of Toads illustrated by Nick Geoghegan|21st Century Renaissance|ISBN 9780992736866 by Alison Hackett Have you heard of a parliament of owls, or a murder of crows? These were the first groups of animals that Nick Geoghegan considered when he was asked to design a book...
A tribute to love and loss—Cathal Póirtéir on the poetry of Ilmar Lehtpere
Dánta gan Baile, i.e. Kodutud Luulettused|Ilmar Lehtpere; athleaganacha Gaeilge Aogán Ó Muircheartaigh|Coiscéim| €7.50| ISBN: 6-660012-200269 by Cathal Póirtéir This slim volume of poetry was a real and unexpected pleasure. I knew nothing of the poet, Ilmar Lehtpere, who was born in...
Fiction Editing Course with Niamh Mulvey
Fiction Editing Course with Niamh Mulvey 12th April Publishing Ireland has announced the dates for a Fiction Editing course with Niamh Mulvey. The course, which is in three parts, will be held on the 13th, 20th and 27th May and is available to book now here.
