News reaches us that Pádraig Ó Méalóid’s essay on Flann O’Brien for gorse no. 3, ‘The Cardinal & The Corpse: A Flanntasy in Several Parts,’ has been long-listed by the International Flann O’Brien Society in the ‘small Fahrt’ category (that is, best essay-length publication on a Flann O’Brien theme). To celebrate, we’re making the piece available on-line here. Enjoy!
In episode three of our podcast series, we take you to The Liquor Rooms for the Dublin launch of issue 8 of the journal. With readings from Sheila Armstrong, Sinéad Gleeson, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín , Colm O’Shea, Dimitra Xidous, and hosted by gorse editor Susan Tomaselli.
About Subcritical Tests:
The nearness of nuclear holocaust, always just one clumsy accident away, forms an entry point into this record of a friendship. The poems in Subcritical Tests stubbornly make connections, ever conscious of the impending threat of annihilation. Oblique, modern, lyrical, humorous, these poems represent the range of Ailbhe Darcy and SJ Fowler‘s individual practices, modulated and melded through the collaborative process.
Coming soon from gorse editions…
The gorse reading at Mountains To Sea Book Festival took place on Friday 24 March 2017, and was part of its Poetry Now strand, curated by Alice Lyons. Bringing together three contributors from across the issues, it added a performative and multi-disciplinary aspect to the festival programme. Aodán MccCardle opened the event with a short performance-writing set, which led to the reading of a series of texts involving repetition, interruption and erasure. Christodoulos Makris read the entirety of his limited edition pamphlet if we keep drawing cartoons, its delivery beginning at the back of the auditorium and gradually moving to the front. Suzanne Walsh performed text from her commission to the exhibition A Different Republic, accompanied by an audio piece interrupting the vocalisation of the writing. The performances were followed by the launch of gorse no. 8, accompanied with a reading by Dimitra Xidous from her essay ‘We Cannot Be Trusted With Chairs’ which features in the issue. Our thanks to Alice Lyons and Poetry Now for their invitation to participate in Mountains To Sea 2017.
gorse no. 8 launch 2.0 (The City launch), Wednesday 19 April 2017, 7.30-9.30pm, The Liquor Rooms, Dublin, with readings from the issue by Sheila Armstrong, Sinéad Gleeson, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Colm O’Shea, and Dimitra Xidous . RSVP.