Doris Sommer in her article "Art and Accountability" (which investigates, among other things, cultural agency), declares that "Constraint is a condition of creativity, not a nemesis." In this, a time of world-wide constraint, it is worth turning to our creative impulses and seeing how they behave. Out on a hill walk with my daughter, I … Continue reading Writers Read: Vanessa Gebbie “The Coward’s Tale” (Re-post from July 2012)
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I'm delighted to be reading live on YouTube on Saturday, 9th May at 8pm kindly hosted by Simon and Rozz over at The Holding Cell: Writers Reading Live from Their Homes So tune in (click above or this link), sit back, and enjoy my short reading - prose and poetry - from Duality, the publication from … Continue reading The Holding Cell Reading
NOTE: This post was first published on my blog in October 2016 There's a radio advert for a book festival in Dublin which tells listeners that you never know what will happen when you open a book. The selection of stories 'Vampire in Love' by Enrique Vila-Matas is testament to this. Translated by the great … Continue reading Writers Read: On “Vampire in Love” by Enrique Vila-Matas