"Sometimes it happens that you’ve read a situation wrong. But have you ever got it totally, comprehensively, down to its bottommost depths incorrect?" — Music for Nine Postcards, Kevin Breathnach

Kevin Breathnach is the author of Tunnel Vision and Morphing. You can read Kevin's piece in full in our new issue. Available now from our website or from select bookshops. thepigsback.ie/shop

really sad to see the short story and poetry categories axed from this year's Irish Book Awards - such integral parts of the Irish lit scene, yet so few major short story award opportunities left open to Irish writers, with Costa, IBAs, and Sunday Times all now gone.

Very pleased to have a poem in this special Mícheál McCann issue of Poetry Ireland Review. I’m calling it the Culmore Issue. Hope to see lots of you at the launch this Saturday in Kilkenny!

Very happy to have a piece in the latest issue of Holy Show :: print & production co. — I wrote about doodling & making comics and the lads were even good enough to include some of the strips (in print!) — you should pick up a copy today (from Books Upstairs!)

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"When we stand up to leave, she doesn’t move. At some point I realise that she has no legs. I look at my dad opened-mouthed as we leave the house. His lips say, earthquake." — Deprem Korkusu, (Latifa Ak👁)

Latifa Akay is a writer from Belfast. Her writing has featured in PVA collections 'well I just kind of like it' and 'Running Feet, Sharp Noses', The Guardian, and many more. Before moving to London in 2012, she worked for two years as a journalist in Istanbul.

You can read Latifa's incredible essay in our new issue. Available on our website and in select bookshops. Subscribe now and receive two issues every 12 months.

The brilliant folks at Banshee Press have made my story The Ferry Man available to read online. Big news if you're into tumbledown houses, inept fathers, precocious kids or birds.

Tomorrow I'm off on a German tour supported by Zeitgeist Irland 24 (Culture_Ireland Ireland Embassy Berlin) with Jo Burns and Astrid Köhler (publishers: Doire Press, Ink Press and Makina Books). Here are some of the places you can come see us read:

This Friday the 6th of September at 8pm, Jo, Astrid and I will be in Curious Fox Bookshop Curious Fox Books reading from Glass, it's German translation Verlangsamung des Herzschlags and from The Conversation (Doire Press) . curiousfoxbooks.com/events

On the 9th of September Astrid and I will be reading in Buchhandlung-Boettger bookshop in Bonn from Verlangsamung des Herzschlags and Glass. Then on the 11th we'll be doing an event for Lettekietz Liest back in Germany.

Finally on the 12th of September Jo and I will be in Bremen reading from The Conversation (Doire Press) in Villa Ichon, Goetheplatz at 7pm chaired by Ian Watson.

'...an ambitious exploration of what women say to each other when men are not listening.' Big thanks to rosamund for her review of THE CONVERSATION by Emily Cooper & Jo Burns in Poetry Ireland Review

I better go superviral for this...

"Practically all that is known of the religion is from the stone carvings found at the shrines. The god is born from rock. The god slaughters the bull in the cave. The god and the sun dine on the bull’s hide." — Proximities, Kimberly Campanello (Kimberly Campanello)

Kimberly Campanello is best-known for MOTHERBABYHOME, a 796-page poetry-object and reader's edition book. New prose appears in Tolka and Somesuch Stories. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.