Book Review by James McCaughey Colm Toibin House of Names, Picador. May 2017 RRP: $29.99 h/b 261 pp ISBN: 978 1760 551421 The ancient Greeks have left us a legacy of myths. Some of them are still current – the stories of Oedipus or Antigone, for instance. Others, though less known, the story of Pygmalion say, have … Continue reading
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Birds At Bundanon
Birds amplify
the silence; their calls,
borne on the wind’s leafy roar,
lodge in the mind, the marrow. Continue reading
Joyce with his Nose in the Air
Handed such a whiffy text, director Wayne Pearn took a deep breath and turned it into a play piece of encaptivating ingenuity Continue reading
Poetry by Maria Wallace
this island scorns, defies life
from sunrise to the midnight moon
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James Joyce’s literary masterpiece IS to be sniffed at. Continue reading
Poetry
Poems full of time telling of many stories and of many lives. Continue reading
Reading John Boyne
The book ties in to events and personalities of the time Continue reading
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