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GALWAY LAUNCH – MENAGERIE
Book launch for Menagerie, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from Arlen House Celebrating Arlen House at 50
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HI FROM A HUMAN CAMPAIGN
Check out this wonderful pro-creativity and anti-AI initiative from designer Una Healy. As a writer, it is terrifying to imagine that anyone thinks it’s a good idea to let AI write creative texts, it’s a total eclipsing of everything that is fresh, heartful, authentic, and innately human in creativity. See more, and join in, here.
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Menagerie review
I’m grateful to Canadian writer Rob McLennan, who has reviewed Menagerie at his blog. A taster:’…a curious assemblage of prose poem narratives and short scenes that hold a thickness of detail and a lush sense of the lyric…These poems are quite magical, honestly.’ You can read the rest here.
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MICRO MADNESS JUDGING
I am judging Micro Madness this year with Renee Liang, for Flash Frontier. Free and international competition for stories up to 100 words, opens April 15. We’re interviewed here today about the whole shebang. Image: Claudia Wollesen
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Irish Times Review – Menagerie
Happy International Women’s Day! I’m very happy today to get this review of Menagerie in the Irish Times. Thanks, Carl Phillips. A snippet: ‘…a warm feelingful generosity of vision and a distant, diagnostic eye…a collection which is at once involving and clear-sighted.’ Pre-order the book here.