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Introduction
Introduction Imagine you’re invited to a party. You arrive at the venue, slip past security, and Margaret Atwood is there; so are Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, and Dionne Brand. CanLit’s luminaries surround you, and having never brushed elbows with so many prominent writers, you turn paparazzi and start taking photographs in earnest. Point and click—easy to tell who monopolizes the spotlight and who falls back. It’s only once you focus manually, looking for an unconventional angle, that you begin to notice others: a younger, more anonymous crowd pushing at the margins, trying to bypass the guest list. So you raise your camera to include them too, at least those close enough to see clearly. Some of the shots will turn out perfectly—balanced composition, candid expressions that capture the palpable energy of the event. Some won’t. The blur of time will seep in, poor exposure rendering the photographs unusable. You might think I’m describing a Griffin Poetry Prize gala. I am, of course, but this is also the plight of prospective anthologists. Working without the benefit of hindsight, anthologists are responsible for scouting talent in little magazines, hard-to-find books, and critical periodicals. Canonization is a gamble, and time and time again Canadian editors have either gone all in or hedged their bets, offering up both generation defining compilations and remixed versions of established texts. With New Provinces, F.R. Scott curated 13 The Next Wave the first essential anthology of Canadian poetry in 1936. Providing a platform for future icons like E.J. -
Frank O'connor
The 10th Annual FRANK O’CONNOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY FESTIVAL 2009 elcome. Cork is the place to come for the world’s oldest, annual, dedicated, short story festival now in its tenth year. In Cork we have a special love of the short story because of our city and county’s association with W so many masters of the form including Daniel Corkery, Sean O’Faolain, Frank O’Connor, Elizabeth Bowen and William Trevor. The Munster Literature Centre, with the crucial help of funding from Cork City Council is delighted to be able to raise our city’s profile in the world through this festival and also through the annual Cork City-Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, the richest literary prize for the form which is now in its fifth year. Since the festival began we have featured modern masters from at home and abroad including the likes of Segun Afolabi, Cónal Creedon, Nisha da Cunha, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Alasdair Gray, Bret Anthony Johnston, Miranda July, Claire Keegan, Etgar Keret, Jhumpa Lahiri, James Lasdun, Mary Leland, Eugene Mc- Cabe, Mike McCormick, Bernard MacLaverty, David Marcus, David Means, Rebecca Miller, Rick Moody, Eilis Ní Dhuibhne, Julia O’Faolain, James Plunkett, Dan Rhodes, Ludmila Ulitskaya, Samrat Upadhyay, William Wall, Yiyun Li Wang Zhousheng and many others. This year, we have five continents represented in our international lineup. We welcome back writers who have appeared before, not only former O’Connor Award shortlistees such as Grimshaw and O Ceallaigh, but writers such as Titley and Doyle who participated in our very first festival in 2000. -
Full Text of 'Joyce House' Letter and Signatories
Full text of ‘Joyce house’ letter and signatories As writers, artists, and scholars of Irish literature and culture, we call upon Josepha Madigan, the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and Owen Keegan, Dublin City Manager, to intervene to save, for the nation and the world, the house at 15 Usher's Island, known to all as Joyce's house of "The Dead", and prevent any deterioration of its fabric. In the decades since Joyce's death, too many of the places that are rendered immortal in his writing have been lost to the city. Let us not repeat this mistake today. 15 Usher's Island is not just another house connected with Joyce. Built in 1775, its upper floors were rented by Joyce's great-aunts in the 1890s and the writer himself often visited them there. Most importantly, it is the setting of "The Dead", widely considered Joyce's and indeed the world's greatest short story. The atmosphere in the house and the way the rooms are configured are mostly untouched since Joyce's time. Turning it into a 56-room hostel would destroy the uniquely valuable interior which still maintains the character of the house so splendidly described in the story. Usher's Island has the potential to become a worthwhile site of literary pilgrimage, a way to inform and inspire new generations of Joyce readers. As we approach the centenary of Ulysses in 2022, we believe that saving this unique piece of our national heritage is within the power of the Government and the national institutions and that it should be an urgent priority. -
Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, January – March 2009
2009 – List of Publications Scholarly Books Gammel, Irene. Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L.M. Montgomery and her Literary Classic. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009. Paperback. Lefebvre, Benjamin, ed. The Blythes Are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2009. Mulhallen, Karen. Acquainted With Absence, Selected Poems. Ed. Douglas Glover Waterloo: Blaurock Press, 2009. Podnieks, Elizabeth and Andrea O'Reilly. Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts: Mothering in Contemporary Women’s Literatures. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2009. 95-106. Scholarly Articles & Chapters (Peer-reviewed) Braun, Marta. “Chine, 1854.” Musée de quai Branly; la collection. Ed. Yves le Fur. Paris: Flammarion ESFP, 2009. ---. “Chronophotography: Photographing Movement.” Sequences: Contemporary Chronophotography and Experimental Digital Art. Ed. Paul St. George. London: Wallflower Press, 2009. 24-52. Gammel, Irene. “Staging Personalities in Modernism and Realism.” Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 247-71. ---. “Wildwood Roses and Sunshine Girls: The Making of Anne of Green Gables as a Popular Romance.” L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables: A Children’s Classic at 100. Ed. Holly Blackford. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2009. 1-19. Ilerbaig, Juan. "'The Viewpoint of a Naturalist:' American Field Zoologists and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1900-1945." Descended from Darwin: Insights into the History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900-1970. Ed. J. Cain and M. Ruse. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009. 23-48. Lefebvre, Benjamin. "'The Same as Bein' Canadian': John Marlyn's Eye among the Blind." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne 34.1 (2009): 22- 40. -
Autori / Contributors
Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, n. 5 (2015), pp. 273-277 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-16358 Autori / Contributors Katarzyna Bartoszyńska (<[email protected]>) spent several years working at the Program of Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey). This fall she will join the English De- partment at Monmouth College, Illinois. Her research has appeared in New Hibernia Review and 19th Century Contexts. She is currently at work on a book that uses a comparative reading of literary history in Poland and Ireland as an entry point into an examination of comparative studies and ways of under- standing the rise of the novel in different parts of the world. An article related to this research, on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Ignacy Krasicki’s Adventures of Mr Nicholas Wisdom, appeared in Comparative Literature Studies. Tomasz Bilczewski (<[email protected]>) is an Assistant Professor and the director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiel- lonian University, Krakow. He is the author of Komparatystyka i interpretacja. Nowoczesne badania porównawcze wobec translatologii (Comparative Literature and Interpretation: Modern CompLit and Translation Studies, 2010), the editor of Niewspółmierność. Perspektywy nowoczesnej komparatystyki, (Incommensurabil- ity. Perspectives on Modern Comparative Literature, 2010), and co-editor (with Luigi Marinelli and Monika Woźniak) of Rodzinny świat Czesława Miłosza (The Family World of Czesław Miłosz, 2014). He has received the Prime Minister’s Award for best doctoral dissertations in Poland (2009), and is a recipient of the Polityka and Ministry of Science scholarships for outstanding young scholars (2010 and 2014 respectively). -
Marsha Clark Profile of a Visual Artist Community Hero
Marsha Clark Profile of a Visual Artist By Eugene Campbell February past. “I decided to come background training has taken different stages of life.” oming out of the closet out at that time to the world at her to such well-known venues as She said, “Since first coming at the age of 30 and an- large. I had a lot of close friends Ryerson in Toronto, and Sheridan out, my work has been really self- Cnouncing to the world she who knew—for many, it was no in Oakville, for various periods reflective. I work out a lot of issues was gay did not have the negative revelation.” of time. “In Oakville, I was there I have about myself. I think a lot of effects one usually associates with She said she has had doubts, about six years. I received train- artists go through that. The work is the move, for at least one local per- however. As the mother of a ing in furniture making. I tried to out there, it applies to everybody.” son. When well-known visual artist young daughter, she said, “Can I make a future in the trade, but that Clark works full-time at historic St. Marsha Clark made the daring move really call myself gay? Is that al- didn’t work out. I came back to Paul’s United Church as a caretaker. it had the exact opposite effects. lowed where I have had an affair Fredericton and took some time “I love it. It’s just butch enough that Clark, who is currently the fea- with a man and have a child?” off, had a baby, and got involved in I like it, but not enough that I can’t tured artist at a solo exhibition being As an artist, she said of the cabinet making. -
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Canon, New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51112-2 232 BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY A Poem for Ireland. “About: Ten Poems for Ireland. Which is Your Best-Loved?” Accessed 9 October 2016. http://apoemforireland.rte.ie/about/. ———. “Our Jury”. Accessed 9 October 2016. http://apoemforireland.rte.ie/ jury/. ———. “Terms and Conditions”. Accessed 9 October 2016. http://apoemforire land.rte.ie/terms-conditions/. Alcobia-Murphy, Shane. “‘My Cleverly Dead and Vertical Audience’: Medbh McGuckian’s ‘Difficult’ Poetry”. New Hibernia Review 16.3 (2012): 67–82. Allen, Michael. “Horse-People and Others”. Review of Mules, by Paul Muldoon. Honest Ulsterman 56 (1977): 136–41. ———. “The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian”.InContemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Elmer Andrews, 286–309. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. Allen-Randolph, Jody, and Eavan Boland. “An Interview with Eavan Boland”. Irish University Review 23.1 (1993): 117–30. Allison, Jonathan. “Questioning Yeats: Paul Muldoon’s ‘7, Middagh Street’”.In Learning the Trade: Essays on W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry, edited by Deborah Fleming, 3–20. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1993. ———. “Acts of Memory: Poetry and the Republic of Ireland Since 1949”.In Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics 1949–1999, edited by Ray Ryan, 44–63. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. “Ancrene Wisse”.InAnchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works, edited by Anne Savage and Nicholas Watson, 41–208. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1991. © The Author(s) 2017 231 K. Keating, Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Canon, New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51112-2 232 BIBLIOGRAPHY Andrews, Elmer, ed. Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. -
Riding Against the Lizard – on the Need for Anger Now
RIDING AGAINST THE LIZARD – ON THE NEED FOR ANGER NOW AN ESSAY BY WILLIAM WALL © William Wall 2009 First published at www.threemonkeysonline.com This story is licensed under a Creative Commons Deed. Please see copyright details on the last page. RIDING AGAINST THE LIZARD ON THE NEED FOR ANGER NOW ‘Anger is the political sentiment par excellence. It brings out the qualities of the inadmissible, the intolerable. It is a refusal and a resistance that with one step goes beyond all that can be accomplished reasonably in order to open possible paths for a new negotiation of the reasonable but also paths of an uncompromising vigilance. Without anger, politics is accommodation and trade in influence; writing without anger traffics in the seductions of writing.’ Nancy, J-L, The Compearance How should we describe the extraordinary consensus that existed in this country – a consensus that united us all around core concepts like ‘free markets’, ‘competition is the only way’, ‘private enterprise good, public enterprise bad’, ‘social partnership’, ‘entrepreneurship’, ‘greed is good’, ‘conspicuous con- sumption’? For a long time we lived inside a bubble. The walls of the bubble were invisible to us, they coloured everything we looked at but everything was that colour anyway so we thought it was colourless. It was, nonetheless, a bubble. What we hear these days, in the media, in conversations, in political speeches and union negotiations is the pop of the bubble bursting. We are faced with an absolute incon- gruence – between what we have been told and what we see. What this incongruence will tell us remains to be seen, but it makes us strange to ourselves, wakes us from our dream of shopping and eating and enables us to look back at our days in the bubble with at least the illusion of detachment. -
New Writing from Ireland 2016
New Writing from Ireland New Writing from Ireland / Literature Ireland: Ireland: Literature / Ireland from Writing New Promoting and Translating Irish Writing Promoting and Translating Literature Ireland Promoting and Translating Irish Writing Fiction | 1 NEW WRITING FROM IRELAND 2016 Welcome to the latest edition of New Literary Translation and are grateful Writing from Ireland! to our generous sponsors, Trinity College Dublin, Culture Ireland and the Arts Many of you will have noticed that Council, who have made this possible. there is a new wave of Irish literature Our new home in the heart of Dublin is spreading around the globe. It’s fresh a fitting location in which to celebrate and exciting and winning accolades both the very best of Irish literature wherever it travels. This writing ranges new and old and the work of the from edgy, sometimes dystopian, extraordinarily gifted translators who environments in rural Ireland to bring these works to readers around beautiful, pitch-perfect novels in the world. historical settings that engage and stimulate readers across the world, It’s our privilege at Literature Ireland from Beijing to Buenos Aires. Household to support Irish writers and their books names like John Banville, Colm Tóibín, by collaborating with publishers, Anne Enright and Sebastian Barry literary agents, translators and festival have been joined by a second, perhaps directors. We hope that the seventy-two even a third, wave of Irish writers, fiction, children’s, young adult, poetry, including Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, drama and non-fiction titles included Mike McCormack, Mary Costello, Colin in this catalogue will encourage you to Barrett, Lisa McInerney, Rob Doyle, Paul read, present, translate and publish the McVeigh, Louise O’Neill, Sarah Crossan best of Irish writing far and wide! and Gavin McCrea, to name just a few! Sinéad Mac Aodha Not unlike contemporary Irish literature, Director Literature Ireland (formerly Ireland Literature Exchange) has had a transformative year – since February 2016, we have changed both our name and address. -
Sina Queyras (1963 – ) Is a Poet, Novelist and the Founder and Editor of Lemon Hound a Very Active Poetry and Poetics Website
Parliamentary Poet Laureate POETRY CONNECTION: LINK UP WITH CANADIAN POETRY Sina Queyras (1963 – ) is a poet, novelist and the founder and editor of Lemon Hound www.lemonhound.com, a very active poetry and poetics website. Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound (Coach House Books, 2006), received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award. In 2005, she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets (Persea Books), an anthology of Canadian poetry published by a U.S. press. She later edited Canadian Strange, a folio of contemporary Canadian writing for Drunken Boat, where she is a contributing editor. From 2005 to 2007, Queyras co-curated the Belladonna* reading series in New York. Her most recent work, Expressway, was written mainly in Calgary, while she was the Markin-Flanagan Writer-in-Residence. Her work has been published widely in journals and anthologies, including Joyland | A hub for short fiction. She teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal, and has taught at Haverford College and Rutgers University.1 Though she works primarily as a poet and editor, her novel Autobiography of Childhood (Coach House Books, 2011) has garnered significant praise. Marilyn Bowering comments, “A family saga with the sweep of Ann-Marie MacDonald, the poetic depth of Anne Michaels and the tragedy and resilience of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.” Unleashed (BookThug, 2009) is an intriguing collation that probes the conceptual practice of blog documentary, an “experiment begun for many reasons – a way for an expat to keep in touch with fellow Canadian writers and artists, a way to come to terms with the increasing relevance of the internet in literary lives, and a way to figure out why, after decades of gains, women writers are still grossly underrepresented in critical dialogues.” 1 Wikipedia, “Sina Queyras” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Queyras Sina Queyras Besides Lemon Hound, some other recent collections of Queyras’ poetry include Expressway (Coach House Books, 2009), Teeth Marks (Nightwood Editions, 2004) and Slip (ECW Press, 2001). -
23-30 April, 2017
23-30 April, 2017 www.cuirt.ie Funding Partners CULTUREFOX.IE NEVER MISS Media Partner OUT The Arts Council’s new, upgraded CULTUREFOX events guide is now live. Free, faster, easy to use – and personalised for you. Never miss out again. Welcome to Cúirt Contents International Festival Official Opening 6 Début Panel 29 of Literature Cúirt Table Quiz 6 Conor O’Callaghan & A. L. Kennedy 30 Anne Kennedy Writers’ Salon and Residency 7 Digital Literature & Art: In Person: World Poets 8 Interface as Creative Device 30 The 2017 Cúirt Festival aims to Launch: Song of Songs 2.0 8 Damon Galgut & Eimear McBride 31 www.cuirt.ie Cúirt International Festival of Literature excite and engage its audience and Seisiúin na Cúirte 9 Elaine Feeney & Josh Idehen 32 provide a platform for some of the Fruition 9 Claire-Louise Bennett & Mia Gallagher 33 most innovative and loved writers Found in Translation? Songs from a room: My Fellow Sponges 34 across venues in Galway City and France, Ireland and the legacy of Michel Déon 11 An Focal: Grá 35 County. Launch of Horseman, Pass by! 11 Dermot Healy: Writing the Sky 36 Each year the festival continues to grow: this year Film: Un taxi mauve / The Purple Taxi 11 Claire Hennessy, Shirley Anne McMillian we are proud to introduce LABS as Gaeilge, a day of Frédéric Vitoux 11 & Dave Rudden 37 workshops for children through Irish. There are two new masterclasses in sports writing and writing for a young Launch: Rise 12 Jay Griffiths, Richard Hamblyn, adult audience. The Anne Kennedy Memorial Lecture has evolved to become a mentored residency, platforming Calasanctius College Book Launch 12 Gaia Vince & Paul Kingsnorth 38 and nurturing emerging poets. -
English Language Poets in University College Cork, 1970–1980
English Language Poets in University College Cork, 1970–1980 Clíona Ní Ríordáin English Language Poets in University College Cork, 1970–1980 Clíona Ní Ríordáin Institut du Monde Anglophone Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 Paris, France ISBN 978-3-030-38572-9 ISBN 978-3-030-38573-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38573-6 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and informa- tion in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.