The Irish poet, fiction-writer and screenwriter
Eyewear, the cutting-edge literary and cultural review, has blogged my new chapbook, Cicatrice – see link under Arts & Reviews, to the left. UPDATE: The poems in Cicatrice will appear, some in modified form, in my third full collection, due from Salmon in 2007.
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, [...]
Philip Casey and I appeared on The Enchanted Way on Saturday, May 6th, discussing The Irish Literary Revival which launched last week. We also read a couple of poems each, I from my next collection, and Philip from his latest book, Dialogue In Fading Light. The site is going well – with several authors’ books [...]
Cicatrice, my new chapbook, has just been published by Lapwing, Belfast. It’s the follow-up to Touchpaper Star. You can buy a copy from Lapwing at this email address: dennis (dot) greig (at) ntlworld (dot) com, or direct, signed, from patrick (at) patrickchapman (dot) net.
Mayday. The Irish Literary Revival is live today at irishliteraryrevival.com, with our first authors already up, and many more to come. Over the weekend, there were articles in the Irish Times and the Sunday Independent. We’ve also recorded an interview for The Enchanted Way on RTE Radio 1 which should be broadcast soon. Several more [...]