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Please Plant This Book Coast To Coast by Susan Kay Anderson: A Review
Please Plant This Book Coast To Coast, Susan Kay Anderson, Finishing Line Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-64662-487-4, $23.99 Virginia Brautigan Aste is, amongst many other things, a former wife of the novelist and poet Richard Brautigan. They married in 1957, separated in 1962 and finally divorced in 1970; a few years in a long life, and… Continue reading
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A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
For International Women’s Rights Day Continue reading
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Ginsberg, Blue of the Night, Me
Last night Bernard Clarke did a segment on Blue of the Night, RTE Lyric FM, centring around Ginsberg and taking off from my review of the Fall of America Journals. Here’s the link to play back. Continue reading
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MOTHERBABYHOME by Kimberly Campanello: A Review
MOTHERBABYHOME, Kimberly Campanello, zimZala, 2019, £40 in the UK and £47 in the rest of the world. Kimberly Campanello’s MOTHERBABYHOME is at once a very easy and an incredibly difficult book to describe. On the one hand, it’s a work of memorial to the 796 babies and children who died in the custody of the… Continue reading
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Augustus Young Review
My review of two recent books by Augustus Young is live on the Dublin Review of Books. The books in question are: Brazilian Tequila: A Journey into the Interior, by Augustus Young, Matador, 160 pp, £10.99, ISBN: 978-1785899874 The Invalidity of all Guarantees: A Conversation between Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin (1934), by Augustus Young, Labyrinth… Continue reading
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International Call for Writers on Trump
A petition started by Catherine Walsh (@gurriersread) calling on non-US based writers to sign. This is a European created petition which replicates ‘WRITERS ON TRUMP’ the U.S. petition against Trump’s candidacy for presidency of the U.S. I have started this petition in support of all of our writing contemporaries in the United States, to visibly… Continue reading
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The 1916 Poets: Some Thoughts
Shortly after noon on Monday 24th April 1916, Easter Monday, Padraig Pearse stood outside the General Post Office in Dublin and formally proclaimed an Irish Republic. Pearse and his colleagues were engaging in a doomed if dramatic gesture of defiance against the British Empire, a few hundred armed irregulars with no great plan and even… Continue reading
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From Hill To Sea by the Fife Psychogeographical Collective: A Review
From Hill To Sea by the Fife Psychogeographical Collective (Murdo Eason), Bread and Circuses 2015, ISBN-13: 978-1625178879, £11.99 There can be a tendency to think of psychogeography as an essentially urban activity, the province of Baudelairean flâneurs and Situationist revolutionaries wandering the streets of Paris and London ley-line hunters, while non-urban walking is thought of as… Continue reading
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War Poetry
My review of From the Line: Scottish War Poetry 1914-1945, edited by David Goldie and Roderick Watson and published by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, is on-line on Guardian Books. It is interesting to read From the Line alongside Gerald Dawe’s Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-45. Dawe has more wars… Continue reading
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An extract from What is a Mountain
If pattern and order are artificial concepts the mind imposes on the unknowable given, then so is chaos. Of course, identity is a construct, but it is also a process. To state baldly that national identity is a product of the 18th and 19th centuries is to confuse nation with nation-state. Or should we say… Continue reading
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