A big thank you to Clutag Press for the prompt dispatch of A Shiver, a collection of nine new poems by Seamus Heaney, and to the Post Office without whose excellent service my order wouldn’t have made it in time to be included in the allocation. I’ve probably used up all my luck in the process.. but it’s worth it. Whoo-hoo!
Writer Christopher Hitchens has died aged 62. He was as contrary as he was brilliant. Here is a brief In Memoriam from Vanity Fair (his outlet of choice since 1992) and, here, a longer tribute from his friend Christopher Buckley Stanley in The New Yorker. Better, perhaps, though to post one of Hitchens’ own writings in [...] read our review »
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »