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When I told a friend I was thinking of writing an essay on pre-Hispanic literature he said, ‘Forget it. You’d have to go to university to find out how to write an essay. Why don’t you write about your Christmas holidays?’ So perhaps it’s polite to warn readers that the following words, observations, and ideas are derived solely from personal experience, reading and reflection. I am a genuine lay person, shamelessly uneducated, having left school at fifteen and not found the time (or funds) to return since.
... (read more)An interview with Martin Flanagan.
... (read more)‘Lyrical Unification in Gambier’ a poem by John Kinsella
... (read more)‘Down with Beauty! Long Live Death!’, a poem by Geoff Page
... (read more)‘Praying with Christopher Smart’ a poem by Peter Steele
... (read more)'The Time Machine', a poem by Stephen Edgar ... (read more)
'Doo Town', a poem by Paul Kane ... (read more)