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Author: simon
It’s a picture of me reading again. This time, I was reading at the Carlow Arts Festival with the Carlow Writers’ Cooperative. The show was recorded by KCLR and will be podcasted this weekend. I hope I’ll be able to upload the audio here. The evening featured 12 writers who performed all sorts of writing […]
The annoying thing about this coffee shop / art space in Carlow is that it is a pop-up shop for the Carlow Arts Festival and it will be gone in a week. After that, this fantastic space will be closed for another year when we desperately need a decent independent café.
The Carlow Arts Festival kicked off this weekend with Dublin Street transformed with knit-bombers, street stalls, pop up shops and pop up bands. Great atmosphere!
Shidduch for Yula 2 Marina Terrace, Cork published in Irish Literary Review
Shidduch for Yula 2 Marina Terrace, Cork published in Irish Literary Review O’Connor, the neighbour, has seen boarders, salesmen and travellers, passing through my home. He tells me to watch for the ones that come and go but my eyes are on Levine. When we come home from…
The first video on the Internet of me reading poetry. This is part of the Poetry without Pints event during Writers’ Week at Listowel. The poem is called Grandma’s Alarm Clock and was recorded on my phone. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
A couple of poets that I saw at Listowel: Peter Fallon and Sinéad Morrissey. I forgot to take photos of Gerald Dawe and Vona Groake.
Images from Listowel Writers’ Week
Shortlisted again for Listowel…this time for a tweet short story
Is defending aggression ever ok?
This isn’t a post about politics. It’s about how I am seeing a really ugly side to the way we are dealing with politics in Ireland. I am not political in any way. I couldn’t be a politician. However, in the last few weeks, any aspirations I might have had deep down somewhere in my […]