Monday, Feb 6th 2012
Salmon Poetry would like to invite you to the launch of new collections by Gabriel Fitzmaurice, John McKeown, Stephen Murray & William Wall.
The launch will be in the Irish Writers’ Centre, Friday 13th May, at 7pm.
Click here to read more about the new collections.
In addition, further details of each of these titles can be found [...]
This interview with the late Juliano Mer-Khamis was originally published on South/South on the 5th of April, after a shorter version appeared on Electronic Intifada. Many thanks to Maryam Monalisa Gharavi for allowing us to publish it here.
Art cannot free you from your chains, but art can generate and mobilize [a] discourse of freedom. [...]
Many of us travelling to the European Writers’ Parliament, convened in Istanbul for that city’s Capital of Culture year, were puzzled. Taking its lineage from previous gatherings of writers (during the Spanish Civil War, WWII, the occasion of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, etc), it seemed to us that this parliament lacked a focus. We [...]
“The challenge for those who believe art should have real purchase on contemporary debate is always how to write the engaged political poem while still making it artful.”
Siobhán Campbell, MA/MFA Course Leader, Creative Writing, at Kingston University, London.
“Why bother with political poetry, just send me a text,”
A comment made by a radio host recently as [...]
Is the perfect Christmas gift: A book of war posters!
I was not having the space or the time last week to discuss another of my Christmas present which my inconsiderate brother Hornolo give for me and which you can see above. He tell me that he was in the city a few month back and [...]
Being the third and final part of a dérive through Dublin with a map of Paris.
Place Pigalle: Vibrant, albeit a little rundown, Pigalle tends to attract large groups of Americans, and, as a result, there is a great deal of anti-American feeling among the residents and artists. Much of the artwork was, frankly, disappointing: Most [...]
The first event in the calendar of the Dublin Psychogeographical Society took place last Friday, a challenging, insightful, and fun day out for all concerned. I met at the Omphalos of Irish society, Holles Street hospital, at 11 a.m., armed only with a Tupperware box filled with tuna sandwiches, a hip flask of Black Bush [...]
