Doghouse Poets Saturday 14 July @ 5pm Poetry Ireland in association with Siamsa Tíre Theatre and Doghouse Books presents Monica Corish, Gréagóir O’Dúill, Michael Farry, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, James Lawless and Barbara Smith. Admission €6/4 Siamsa Tíre Theatre, Town Park, Tralee…
A lovey evening in the Writers’ Centre on 27 June. Diligent Jack Harte launched the Novel Fair for unpublished authors for next year. It was a great success last year with 570 submissions and the twenty chosen are now in…
I’ll be interviewed tomorrow 28-06-12 at 12 noon by Helen O’Dwyer on Dublin South FM 93.9. I have to decide on three pieces of music from my scant collection and read from my new poetry collection Rus in Urbe. It…
My poetry collection, Rus in Urbe got a terrific launch from Catherine Murphy TD on the 22nd May with Noel King of Doghouse acting as MC in the Springfield Hotel Leixlip, Catherine emphasized the importance of poetry in our lives…
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James Lawless’s Poetry Launch of Rus in Urbe Tuesday, May 22 at 7:30/8pm at Springfield Hotel, Leixlip, Co. Kildare. Join
“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.”
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,…