Salon Nights
There was a recent Irish Times article on the important role the ‘little magazine’ plays on Irish literary landscape:
Going underground
Please join us in the Liquor Rooms on Wednesday 21 October to celebrate the launch of gorse no. 4, with readings from the issue by Dominque Cleary, Orla Fitzpatrick, Suzanne Walsh, Jona Xhepa & more, plus music by Gar Cox.
The Irish literary journal’s irresistible rise
From a longer piece on Ireland’s new “little magazines”, the Irish Times, 23 September 2015:
A new monthly salon series hosted by the writer Selina Guinness as part of her dlr residency will focus on the subject of literary journals. Taking place in the dlr LexIcon Studio in Dún Laoghaire, the first event runs on October 7th and features readers Mark O’Connell and Sally Rooney, and editor Brendan Barrington.
In the literary world, news breaks first through the “little magazine”, according to Guinness, who hopes to profile those working behind the scenes at Irish journals. “Editors are usually backstage workers, deeply appreciated by authors but unknown to readers,” she says. “I wanted to explore their tastes and choices, discover their current enthusiasms, and afford a stage to the contributors whose work excites them.”
From the Abyss to Zozimus
Index to gorse no. 3 (GOR21). An unlimited edition, distributed on the issue’s launch night, printed on an A4 page (double-sided) and French folded.