Pushcart Prize nomination
I’m pleased to announce that my poem, The Darwin Vampires, has been nominated by the Raintown Review for a Pushcart Prize.
The Irish poet, fiction-writer and screenwriter
December 4th, 2009
Over the Edge ‘New Writer of the Year’ Award 2009
This year’s Over the Edge ‘New Writer of the Year’ Award is now open. I am honoured to have been asked to judge this year’s work, and I look forward to reading everyone’s entries. The closing date is August 3rd. You’ll find more details at http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/03/2009-over-edge-new-writer-of-year.html
April 20th, 2009
Happy Birthday, the other ‘Wow Signal’
Thirty years ago today, astronomer Jerry Ehman at Ohio State University’s Big Ear observatory recorded a signal from ‘out there’ that was so strange he wrote ‘Wow!’ in the margins of the printout. It became known as ‘The Wow Signal.’ There has been lots of speculation that this signal could have been artificial, from some [...]
August 16th, 2007
Happy New Year
Here’s hoping that 2007 will bring health, happiness and sunshine (but not too much of it – mind those UV rays) to all of you out there. Coming in the new year: ‘Doctor Who: Fear of the Daleks’ – an audio play from Big Finish, narrated by Wendy Padbury as Zoe, with Nicholas Briggs as [...]
January 1st, 2007
Grappa uno, grappa tutti – a writing week in Tuscany
The sound of a telephone rang in a room, in a house in Tuscany ten kilometres from Siena. It was a sunny day, which is to say, this day was like the one before it and the one after it. The telephone turned out to be a cicada, trapped inside the house. I’d only ever [...]
June 19th, 2006
Grant McLennan, RIP
Grant McLennan, co-founder of The Go-Betweens with Robert Forster, has died of a heart attack in Brisbane, aged 48. He will be sorely missed. Forster and McLennan were the Lennon and McCartney of their time, their apparently effortless songcraft bringing light and joy to listeners. They were never really commercially successful, but influenced many bands, [...]
May 8th, 2006