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Essay: One Battle After Another - the Gospel According to Bob In this essay, Polina Cosgrave writes about Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another

An excellent, thorough and thought-provoking essay about 'One Battle after Another' by Polina Cosgrave on the @filmireland.bsky.social website.

" Some parts of our psyche, our tribalism and our rebel spirit, if taken to the edge, leave no space for reality."

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Vaim by Jon Fosse: Nobel-winning author shows his playful side First of three related novels has a mysterious, folk tale quality to it

My @irishtimes.com review of Vaim by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls, is now online for subscribers.

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Circling the Square - The Gallery Press Circling the Square takes place from 31 October - 2 November 2025 in The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Tipperary.

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Ten Thousand Bamboos in the Mist and Rain
Zhai Dakun

STARTS TODAY!
@poetryireland.bsky.social
Booking details here:
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with those two massive bags, I presume?
But I bet you won't swim across the Irish Sea!

Flyer for the Dublin Small Press Fair, Fri 28 / Sat 29 November, Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2

Translocal distribution #2: looking forward to taking part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair (@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social) alongside 30+ presses. Friday 28 Nov (5pm-9pm) and Saturday 29 Nov (10am-4pm), Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, all welcome, admission free.
dublinsmallpressfair.com

That's vivid!

Do you know the ongoing journal/blog that Erica keeps?
somewordsforlivinglocally.com

Erica lives in the heart of Mattie McGrath country. But may not be his strongest supporter!

Coming up this Halloween weekend, and I'm delighted to take part. . .

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

One of my favourite writers in Ireland is Erica Van Horn. I'm delighted to be quoted on the reprint of her book 'We Still Have the Telephone', published by @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social

I'm very much looking forward to speaking with Rosie and Bernard next Saturday.

If only John O'Brien, founder of @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social, was around to read it. He would have loved it.

Twenty Questions with Jon Fosse “How can I know what I think, until I see what I say?” (E. M. Forster). How much of your writing surprises you? If it doesn’t surprise me, I am writing badly, and then it isn’t worth writing. After ma...

'What keeps fascinating me is just the process of writing. Where will it lead me? What will I learn about the world this time? What will I bring to the world that I didn’t know about before.' Jon Fosse answers @thetls.bsky.social's Twenty Questions: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Book now or regret it forever!
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The corrected version!

The friendship between Seamus Heaney and Dennis O'Driscoll will be remembered and celebrated at next weekend's Circling The Square.
Details of events and booking here:
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Thanks. I look forward to attending on the 28th.

Might I also recommend Dennis' essay, 'The Poetry of Bureaucracy: Thomas Kinsella's Two Careers', which is in the prose collection, 'The Outnumbered Poet'

His biography of Perec is great too.

RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...

You should see my place!

I will always be grateful to David Bellos, especially for his outstanding translation of 'Life: A User's Manual' by Georges Perec, as well as for his biography, 'Georges Perec: A Life in Words'. In my opinion, it is one of the greatest biographies ever written.

So looking forward to taking part in Circling The Square next week, a festival in honour of the great Dennis O'Driscoll.

Another of the all-time great musicians has died. I couldn't count how many recordings I have with Jack De Johnette drumming on them. I particularly liked his group Special Edition.
But there are so many outstanding recordings.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It wasn't my work and I've used the correct spelling of her name in all of my messages. I'll see if it can be corrected.

Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age | The Observer Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history

"One of the reasons he matters so much to so many people in our disenchanted world is that, as in that rapture on the Flaggy Shore, he keeps open our back channels to transcendence." Late to it, but a terrific line from a terrific piece by Fintan O'Toole. observer.co.uk/culture/book...