WHERE, THE MILE END
Where, the mile end de Julie Morrissy, recueil de poésie
Ou quand le vent boréal souffle une influence sur le poète. Du premier poème ‘Steel skin’ où on y regarde un hiver qui s’étend de Dublin jusqu’au bord du Mississipi et encore, au second poème ‘Looped’ où le fil du nord laisse des traces de vent glacial. Pourtant, le dernier poème, ‘The mile end’ porte encore des traces de notre neige d’hiver entre le Québec et le Vermont.
A REVIEW OF PAUL AUSTER’S 4321
“On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Stanley and Rose Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives.”
ULYSSES ALIVE: A FIND AND A CHALLENGE
The quest to understand Joyce’s Ulysses continues! We came across a web site called BLOOMS AND BARNACLES, described as “a non-academic discussion of James Joyce and Ulysses”.
MEMORY AND MEMORIALS: COMMEMORATING THE IRISH FAMINE
Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College, Dublin addresses the challenge of how we choose to remember an event that has been called everything from an unfortunate tragedy to mass murder.
TRICK OR TREAT? THE AWFUL DISCLOSURES OF MARIA MONK (1836)
When it was first published in 1836, The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk caused a literary and religious storm in Montreal, and abroad. Why? Because the book was purported to be a real account of a young woman’s trials as an ‘inmate’ of Montreal’s Hôtel Dieu nunnery.
10 REASONS TO BECOME A COLUM MCCANN FAN
Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. His tales are easy to read, poetic even. Let the Great World Spin (2012) brought him international recognition and he has used his fame to create social change through storytelling.
Here are ten more reasons why I recommend him