Avi Shlaim's cogent and courageous critique of #Israel seems more pertinent by the day: we are so proud to publish his most recent #book 📚
On March 28th he's scheduled to appear at the Oxford Literary Festival (tickets available here):
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“Trump Is Not New But Old”
~ For this season’s special offer, customers will receive a free copy of Chris Agee’s ‘Trump Rant’ with every order over £18/€22 on our website 📚
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#Books #Trump #USA #Israel #IranWar
Film lovers of the world unite!
As things get worse, there's a film event this weekend to escape to. As it says on the poster, we have some surprises...
“There is no question but that, in his encounter with the conqueror, the hero, Achilles, it is Priam who is the greater human being. This moment in the Iliad might represent a genuine leap in human consciousness.”
~ Moya Cannon (2019)
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“Tide lifts and falls; foam reaches up to lick one's boots or curl around a rock. For the beachcomber, the boundary of land and ocean is more a state of mind than any line drawn in the sand. I have been walking the tideline, on and off, for much of my life...”
~ Michael Viney (2007)
Another journey by train
The 2026 Oxford Literary Festival is just around the corner!
On March 28th, Prof. Avi Shlaim will be in conversation with Peter Oborne on Gaza, Genocide, and Britain 📚
Tickets available here:
oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
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A powerful #poem from our ‘War in Europe’ issue by the great Carolyn Forché, shared today for #InternationalWomensDay (and at a time of mounting crisis globally) 🕊️
More about our 2024 issue here:
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“When all this is over I mean / to travel north...”
~ ‘Lochan’, a beautiful #poem by Kathleen Jamie 🍃
Our #Scotland issue, co-edited by Kathleen, is available here: irishpages.org/product/vol-...
“Trumpian Fever Continually Reminds Me of the Civil War Build-up of the 1850s...”
~ Chris Agee, ‘Trump Rant’ 🔥
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Readers who spend £18/€22/$32 or more in our online shop will receive a free copy of this title📚
#Trump #USA #IranWar #Israel #Books
When all this is over I mean
to travel north, by the high
drove roads and cart tracks
probably in June,
with the gentle dog-roses
flourishing beside me…
—Kathleen Jamie, “Lochan”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)
#BookologyThursday #poem #poetry 💙📚
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
“In the new “global village” of incessant images, increasingly I see the failure of mass media to impart actual understanding. This overactive pluralism gives one the illusion of knowing a lot about a lot when actually you know a smattering about nothing at all...”
~ Mira Nair
This month, in the wonderful little cinema in Cromarty:
No country has welcomed me, moved me, excited me more than Iran.
How, therefore, to react to the bombing?
Joy that Khamenei is finally gone. But a Trump-Netanyahu co-authorship is a terrible story.
Sending love to Iranian friends.
Brilliant piece by Ciarán O'Rourke - made me pick up my Mahon immediately.
"Always an intellectual, Mahon ended his days as a resolute proponent of revolutionary transformation, advocating for “the ownership of the country” to be devolved “to the people of the country, not the few”.
Coming up on northseapoets.com 🌊
Tickets are now available for the first #NorthSeaPoets live event! Join us at Cortachy Kirk for The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry and music.
Still a few tickets left for Don Paterson's Sunday Morning Reading Circle starting 13th April.
#PoetrySky
“I lie in the dark most nights, aware that at that very moment, on the other side of the world, a rocket has struck a power plant and the lights have gone out.”
~ Carolyn Forché, ‘Sharing the Darkness’ 📚
Read Carolyn’s award-winning essay here (from our 2024 issue): irishpages.org/sharing-the-...
Walking in a waking dream
I watched nineteen deer
pour from ridge to glen-floor,
then each in turn leap,
leap the new-raised
peat-dark burn…
—Kathleen Jamie, “The Hinds”
published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015)
#WorldWildlifeDay #poem #poetry
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
Thon tree,
earthfast at the foot
of your Alpine meadow,
dark, with mossy branches,
– apple perhaps –
can you give it a message?
Can you please say spring
will be there soon?
—Kathleen Jamie, “Old Women”
in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015)
#poem #poetry
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...
“Few Irish poets have made it their business to diagnose the corrosive effects of capitalist accumulation as keenly as Mahon did, nor linked the latter so explicitly to the operations of global (American) militarism.”
~ Ciarán O’Rourke on the #poetry of Derek Mahon
www.rundale.org/2026/03/01/i...
Professor Avi Shlaim is a world renowned Israeli historian at Oxford University, but over two years of genocide in Gaza he was never invited for a TV interview by the BBC.
The reason? Shlaim describes himself as an anti-Zionist Jew.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnK...
New Kaleidoscope 3 publications!
Four new texts are now available on the Kaleidoscope 3 website. Discover four poems on the topic of faith, spirituality and art, written by poets John F. Deane, James Harpur, Paula Meehan and Sinéad Morrissey!
kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications
Israeli-British Historian Avi Shlaim exposes the endless hypocrisy of Israel and the US over Iran’s ‘nuclear threat’ in 45 seconds 👏👏👏👏👏👏
“The simple action, right by God: where is it? And I – without it? / What path etched on the world cannot lead from one nightfall to the next?”
~ from ‘Hafez: 12’ (trans. Mario Petrucci)
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“Trump Is Now a Runaway Wrecking Ball”
~ Chris Agee:
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#Trump #USA #Israel #Iran
Carb loading for Bela Tarr's Satantango @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social today.
Delighted to announce that on Thursday 19th March at 7pm, Toppings Booksellers (Edinburgh) will be hosting four Scottish #poets to celebrate the “Scotland” edition of Irish Pages 📚
Please join us for what promises to be an enjoyable (and enlightening) evening!
www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...
“Month by month millions leave their homelands. They leave because there is nothing there, except their everything, which does not offer enough to feed their children. Once it did. This is the poverty of the new capitalism.”
~ John Berger (2007)
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Announcing the first #NorthSeaPoets live event 🌊
The Kirk Sessions: an evening of poetry and music
Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, John Glenday, Lesley Harrison, Lisa Brockwell with music from David Ogilvy & Don Paterson
🗓️ 3rd April
⏰ 7pm BST
📍 Cortachy Kirk, Kirriemuir
🎟️ £12/£10
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