We are pleased to announce a gorse/Penny Dreadful event in Cork on 3 July. The readers will include Cal Doyle (gorse no. 3), Elaine Cosgrove, Hugh Fulham-McQuillan (gorse nos. 2 & 4), Pat O’Connor, Michael Naghten Shanks (gorse no. 3) and Victoria Kennefick. We would love to see you there.
In episode two of our podcast series, we talk to Joanna Walsh about experimental British writer Christine Brooke-Rose, and Padraig O Mealoid tells us about his investigations into Flann O’Brien‘s pulp fiction.
I want to believe there’s something in the bunker,
in the cowslip’s bell. Stockpiles of shivery paper,
caffeine, nicotine and romance. and not just romance.
Onion juice and doubled tongues for the scurvy and amnesia.
Christodoulos Makris joins Ava Vidal (UK), Baloji (Belgium/Congo), Xavier Baumaxa (Czech Republic), Joelle Taylor (UK), and Kārlis Vērdiņš (Latvia) for In Spoken Word at the British Library, May 13, as part of European Literature Night.