“In this wide-ranging book Lawless considers the work of many poets, including W. H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg and Mícheál Ó Siadhail, as he explores the relevance of poetry in ordinary and extraordinary people’s lives. It comes highly recommended.”
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The Avenue by James Lawless Review by Roslyn Fuller Franky, a thirty or forty-something shy librarian, has spent his entire life on The Avenue, somewhere presumably in the less affluent part of Dublin. Having devoted his younger years to caring…
Thousands of people, mostly students, march carrying banners through the Friday rushhour streets of Potence. The rushhour streets! The phrase is redundant. It is the evening traffic jam equal in volume and every other aspect to the morning or…
These days of recession make me think of my novel For Love of Anna and its musing on the alternatives to corporate capitalism. With the collapse of Russia and the dilution of ideational politics, what alternatives do we have? Anna,…
The date has been set for the launch of my debut poetry collection, Rus in Urbe, generously supported by Kildare Arts Council. The launch will take place on Tuesday, 22nd May in the Sarsfield Room of the Springfield Hotel, Leixlip…
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