AVE MARIA

A few years ago a friend read THE PUBLIC GARDENS and suggested I look into Pattie McCarthy's work.

I read MARYBONES and loved it; here's my review at Jacket2.

Stan Mir's Review of THE PUBLIC GARDENS

Stan Mir's insightful review of THE PUBLIC GARDENS is online at Jacket2.

I like the way he takes into account my entire working life (as what my daughter used to call "a booker"), not just my identity as the author of my own book. 

Also nice: he refers to an interview I did with Kate Greenstreet, one of my favorite poets, in 2010, before I'd found a publisher for THE PUBLIC GARDENS.

 

 

From a new series of collages

("history of photography")

 

 

 Here's a link to my poem,

"Patterns for Arans" (Poetry Foundation)

and here's a ridiculously short list of some wonderful Irish/Irishy books:

THE GREEN FOOL by Patrick Kavanagh

ARE YOU SOMEBODY? by Nuala O'Faolain

    (and all of her other books)

BY THE LAKE by John McGahern

ROUND IRELAND WITH A FRIDGE by Tony Hawks

O'CLOCK by Fanny Howe

NO LONGER AT EASE by Chinua Achebe 
    (see scene with mouthy Irish nurses and Nigerians)
SELECTED ESSAYS by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 
    (and this video of her poem, "Athair / Father"

For You

For you--particularly the students in C. D. Wright's
 class today. Thank you.

"What good am I / heaven only knows" 

                                    - DINAH WASHINGTON