Профиль

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced the full cast for its forthcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days theatreweekly.com/siobhan-redm...

The judges called it “a mouthy, ballsy and bracingly unsentimental portrait of west Dublin gangland, set well off the beaten track of the city’s usual literary landmarks”. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Tawdry decor mainly, but that just seems a metaphor for everything else really.

...in order to do away with how many

I did too!

Mayo fans! Get yours quick!This special (100 only) hand drawn by an actual human #Mayo All-Ireland Champions 2026 Limited Edition Fine Art Print. ALL profits from the sale of this print go to Temple St Children's Hospital #NoAI #ActualIllustration www.anniewest.com/other-images...

I'm here for the sniffy.

Ten years in one night sounds better than three hours.

The golden age courtesy of aerosol cans of metallic spray paint from Walmart.

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

Love this movie. Intense.

I spent many a year on the masthead of this great journal. Do check out its history—and the magazine itself. Better yet, why not submit something? Back in the day, I'd have been delighted to read your stories. Poems and nonfiction were always welcome, too.

I know there's a haiku in this for you.

Congratulations!

That's great to know. I've never seen it.

Remembering Edna O'Brien who died two years ago today.

A church group asked to me give them a talk on Scottish religious poetry, and here are my closing remarks on Edwin Muir’s ‘One Foot in Eden’, a poem I have long loved.

“The jersey I was wearing yesterday... My father passed away, just gone three years. He was a quiet man, but he always followed the GAA. ...I said: ‘Dad sign your name there [on the jersey]...The day will come when Mayo lift Sam Maguire, and you’ll be there.’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

My brother just received his package of all that I worked on this year (so far). He photographed it. It's a satisfying enough snap to see. Here it is.