Amazon’s European Handcuffs
Amazon. co. uk recently ceased shipping electronic goods to Ireland.
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Poetry Monday, Late Again
Of all the many entertaining characters I encountered in reading Rachel Cohen’s brilliant set of interlinked mini-biographies of American artists, “A Chance Meeting???, the one I would most like to meet, with the possible exception of Mark Twain, would be the poet Marianne Moore. I think what impressed me most about her was the sheer style of her eccentricity.
Buy My Tools Of Oppression!
Wood Communications and Alpha Vision Design would like you, the security forces of this or other states, to consider their lovely surveillance cameras. Silicon Republic would like to facilitate them in making this invitation. To recap on previous opinions I've expressed- ANPR coupled with casual storage of all data recorded by the system will not withstand legal challenge.
Minister Roche wants us to Wipe Our Face
The Electoral Register question has taken legs in a way I didn't foresee. I'm used to the things I'm interested in being studiously ignored by the populous at large. Not ending up on the front page of the Indo.
More Poetry
Poetry, though traditionally the most hallowed of literary forms, is not one which is likely to bring one fame and fortune. Even the most successful poets will struggle to make a living, scrapping up grants, bursaries and teaching jobs wherever they can. Poetry then, is something you have to really want to do, and that goes all the more for the poet writing in a minority language.
J.K. Galbraith
“I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend, if the air is too dirty to breathe, the streets are filthy and the schools bad" - John Kenneth GalbraithThe economist, John Kenneth Galbraith died yesterday, aged 97.
Free Books from Ireland
A new site launched this week, offering out-of-print Irish books as free downloads under a Creative Commons licence. The Irish Literary Revival site has novels and poems, but is interested in hearing from any writer who might have a published out-of-print work that they'd like to see re-enter the world. They even accept non-fiction books.
DoppelGang Odessa Club Dressing Room
DoppelGang Odessa Club Dressing Room Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. I previously mentioned that Emma Pearson was having an exhibition of her work in The Gallery, The Mill Centre, Celbridge. I thought it might be of interest to post a sample of her work.
More Podcast Outpourings
There were some things I forgot to say in the last post and some new ideas. Firstly, I think I may have misadvertised this podcast- I think it ought to be be thought of as the Art Podcast. I think there might be other streams- I can see a place for a poetry podcast, or one from Fluffy Dutton.
Poetry Monday
With his Nobel Prize, his involvement in the Celtic Revival, and his later political prominence, Yeats is undoubtedly Ireland's great national poet. And yet, those of us living in the real, as opposed to the imagined Ireland will see more that we recognise in the work of Patrick Kavanagh. Kavanagh himself suspected as much, and it undoubtedly rankled with him.
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