Writer out of the ordinary
Joanna Walsh (gorse nos. 1, 3 and 6) is the Irish Times Book Club pick for the month with Vertigo, published in Ireland by Tramp Press. gorse editor Susan Tomaselli wrote on Joanna’s book here.
The doors of Hell’s darker chamber
Rob Doyle’s This Is the Ritual is currently the Irish Times Book Club book of the month. Susan Tomaselli contributed a short essay on Rob’s work, taking in George Bataille, Laurence Sterne, Gaspar Noé, and Jake and Dinos Chapman, paying particular attention to ‘Outposts,’ Rob’s misery memoir in 63 apocalyptic fragments that we published in gorse no. 2.
gorse at ILF Dublin
We’re pleased to be taking part in this year’s International Literature Festival Dublin.
Phonica: Two
Phonica is a Dublin-based poetry and music venture with an emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Conceived, curated and hosted by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, it aims to provide an outlet for the exploration and presentation of new ideas, a space where practitioners from different artforms can converse, and an environment conducive to collaborative enterprise and improvisation.
Knowledge comes with death’s release
Please join us in celebrating the launch of gorse no. 5, in the The Liquor Rooms, on Wednesday 20th April with readings from the issue by D. Joyce-Ahearne, Darragh McCausland, Alan Jude Moore, Nathan Hugh O’Donnell, and Eimear Ryan.
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