Archive: 2009 (8)

Jun 26

Longley's editor

All writers need to be edited – some more than others.

Posted Jun 26, 2009

Jun 25

Longley at 70

The Belfast poet Michael Longley was presented with a Festschrift by his publisher, at a surprise birthday in Queens University. It is a collection of writings by other writers who love and admire him. The dear man was quite taken aback.

Posted Jun 25, 2009

Jun 21

Whitewell Split

This is the report that went out on Sunday Sequence on Radio Ulster on June 22, about the split within Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Posted Jun 21, 2009

Jun 19

All art is subjective

Jamshid Mirfenderesky is the curator of the Fenderesky gallery in Belfast. He believes that artists ar eunder no onus to address conflict or social issues.

Posted Jun 19, 2009

Jun 12

Categories of Knowledge

In Belfast, there are things that people know but can’t say; and sometimes it would be better if they did but at others it is best they don’t.

Posted Jun 12, 2009

Jun 11

The Twelve

Stuart Neville’s first novel describes a haunting with justice in mind.

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Jun 11

Ghost in a Poem

Sinead Morrissey wrote a poem, inspired by pictures of a little girl, imagining that the girl was Alice as photographed by Lewis Carroll. Then a visitor explained the pictures to her. They were, in fact, the pictures she imagined them to be.

Posted Jun 11, 2009

Jun 03

Jo Baker

http://www.portobellobooks.com/Comment-and-Blogs/Jo-Bakers-Blog

Posted Jun 03, 2009