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Dublin Art Book Fair + View

We are pleased to again be at this year’s Art Book Fair. The fair opens tomorrow, Wednesday 18 November, with a book signing by artist Miriam Elia (We Go to the Gallery), and continues to Sunday 22nd. As well as offering work from fifty national and international publishers, DBAF 2015 showcases individual artists’ books, and a full programme of related events. Running in conjunction with the fair is View, an arts and politics weekend. Particular highlights include  Osmosis, an exhibition and series of talks that interrogate perceptions of memory, beauty and identity, featuring gorse poetry editor Christodoulos Makris who contributes an essay to the catalogue, and New Dublin Press Presents Imagines. We hope to see you there.

Down the Rabbit Hole

 

A short account of the gorse no. 4 launch, including the introductory speech.

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.

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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.”