Tag: books
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“Eavan Boland: Inside History” Edited by Nessa O’Mahony and Siobhan Campbell
The death of Eavan Boland (1944-2020) occurred on 27/04/2020 in Dublin, Ireland. Condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues. You can read a collation of tributes and obituaries to Eavan at this link. EAVAN BOLAND INSIDE HISTORY (Arlen House, 2016) Eavan Boland: Inside History, a new volume of essays and poems in response to the […]
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‘Crinoline’ and ‘sans’ by C. Murray
Crinoline The grief synesthete bears her horsehair dress heavy as the rose haw throbs its orange glow, through forest or stream, each time a visit to the griefscape is necessitated, […]
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Some little books.
The pictured editions carry a huge poetic punch, though it would be unfair to compare them as like. The Moth Little Editions were released this month, the Ginsberg is pre-1960 and Hannah Weiner’s books as objects of art were made in the 1970/80s. They are all serious books in small form, a virtue of City Lights and other makers […]
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Paulo Coelho’s books are now allegedly banned in Iran, January 2011
This post quite simply comprises an external link to the Coelho blog and indeed his Twitter Account. Today, Mr Coelho released the contents of an email onto his blog and linked it by URL to Twitter, so its mostly common-knowledge and I will not comment here, save to say that the tag under which this […]
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‘A Work for Poets’ by George Mackay Brown.
A Work for Poets To have carved on the days of our vanity A sun A star A cornstalk Also a few marks From an ancient forgotten time A child may read That not far from the stone A well Might open for wayfarers Here is a work for poets— Carve the […]
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‘ Rare and Interesting Books’ in Westport , Co Mayo.
EDIT : 13/12/2010 : John Hurst died last night . Rest in Peace. As always a visit to John Hurst’s Interesting books shop is a delight, a real treasure-trove, indeed, I have spoken of the shop before now. I thought to add a picture of the frontage (with the suit of armour) and though it cannot be seen […]
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‘Aphbicécladiggalhymaroidphorebstevanzy’
I have long forgotten the name of that author of a scarlet-clad Encyclopaedia, but the alphabetical references marked upon each volume have remained for me an indelible and magical word : Aphbicéladiggalhymaroidphorebstevanzy. from My Mother’s House and Sido, by Colette. Originally :La Maison de Claudine , 1992 . Sido , 1929
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