'I can only explain one thing by explaining everything – & this has perhaps made me philosopher & a novelist. The novel is the only art form where one can (try to) explain everything!'

April, 1977

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ICYMI: #StephenRea spoke to Miriam O'Callaghan about his career highlights on screen and stage ahead of receiving an Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) Lifetime Achievement Award this Saturday. Stephen returns in #KrappsLastTape at The Gaiety Theatre
this October. 🎧Listen back here 👇rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

Two superb new collections out next month - #HighlandBoundaryFault by Emma McKervey and #BackFromAway by #DamienBDonnelly Damien Donnelly Now availanle for pre-order. Message for review copies.

Happy to report that tickets are selling fast for this… AND that Danielle McLaughlin will have written a new story for it by Wednesday!

Simon Boas on his terminal cancer: “Length and quality are not correlated in lives any more than they are in novels or films. So carpe that diem and keep it carped.” jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2024/02/1…

gorgeous!!

That's a wrap for KING in New York! Congratulations to Pat Kinevane and all involved in KING at 59E59 Theaters and Origin's 1st Irish Festival💜

Find out more about KING touring at fishamble.com/king!

📸 by Bojan Kovacevic

Touring supported by Culture_Ireland

I told you I would be back to you about Emma Donoghue’s excellent book & the fact it has been turned into a play!

Like this post & tell us your favourite play to be in with a chance to receive 2 tickets from The Gate Theatre & a copy of the book!
Deadline Thurs 19th Apr @ 2359!

Can't believe Judge Merchan won't let Trump sleep through his own son's graduation.

Nice to see Carolyn Souaid's novel YASMEEN HADDAD LOVES JOANASI MAQAITTIK coming out in May. Beautiful cover art by AlArabipd of Cairo Quebec Writers' Federation AELAQ Thx to SODEC for translation funding

Revisiting my back pages before 'The Following Year' appears from Salmon Poetry this spring. 'The Walls Replied', composed in 1987, was the first poem I had accepted for publication, appearing in Cyphers in 1988. [post 1 in an occasional series] #poetrytwitter

Where's Mike Lindell when you need him #SleepyDon

After falling asleep in court, we have to start calling him Don Snoreleone

Poetry from Rick Wilson

You got to love Irish chat shows where one of the main guests is a poet.

In this case, the great Paula Meehan Paula Meehan.

(Next thing you know, she will be pulling a Kennelly on it and advertising Toyotas!)

'I read WB Yeats first when I was a teenager. In boarding school, after dark, I took out the sturdy book ... and turned over page after page. In winter I used a torch. In summer I read by the late light. I got to know lines, then stanzas, then whole poems.'

Eavan Boland

Congratulations to friend of the press and frequent Irish Pages contributor, Michael Longley, on the arrival of his New Selected Poems (published by Jonathan Cape on the occasion of his 85th birthday) 🌳

Info below from The Bookseller 📚

penguin.co.uk/books/458846/a…

Irish Literary Times

For anyone who missed the programme this eve ⁦RTÉ Radio 1⁩ & would like to listen back to the item on #haiku with YT (and the Japanese ambassador, no less), plus a lovely interview with Dermot Bolger, here’s the podcast: Poetry People - RTÉ Radio 1 rte.ie/radio/radio1/p…