Poet & Chef
The joy and Horror of Creating Your Own Book A few months back our writing group, well a combination of writers who had participated in Kevin Higgins creative writing classes in Galway on Tuesday nights, decided to get together and … Continued
Books That Were Read Half Way Through The Year There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Bradbury I wanted to do this post at the end of July, but time was not … Continued
For the past couple of years I have attended a poetry workshop slash creative writing class to help me burst out of my writing shell and pen more poems, basically keep me preoccupied with poetry. While attending these classes, classes … Continued
Starting from today June 15th until Sunday is the Dalkey Book Festival which has I have to say, an excellent lineup. Reading, on the Saturday in Our Lady’s Hall at 2.30 from her popular and much talked about the book … Continued
Though from Dublin, I had never been to the National Concert Hall of Stephen’s Green and when a chance came to go see and listen to the brilliant mind of Richard Dawkins, I quickly purchased a ticket and made my … Continued
Once again I’m lucky enough to have a Thursday off (very rare) this week and lucky enough it coincides with the May Over the Edge readings at the Galway library. If you have the night off too and looking for … Continued
“I like myself better when I’m writing regularly.” Willie Nelson And that is a fact Willie, I feel the same as I am sure a lot of people do, writing regularly is a good habit to have and a fine … Continued
Who would have thought it that the love of eating a delicious sandwich would turn in to a poem and then eventually be published online in a literary journal; well that’s what happened with my Ode To A Gourmet Sandwich, … Continued
As this site grows I had intentions to add some interviews to it, a world I know nothing about and have no skill in construction nor know how to go about doing, but, as it happens, I have been lucky … Continued
Happy 100th Birthday Wilfrid Brambell aka Albert Steptoe’You are a dyed-in-the-wool, fascist, reactionary, squalid little, ‘know your place’, ‘don’t rise above yourself’, ‘don’t get out of your hole’ – complacent little turd. ‘ Harold Steptoe I know I just wished … Continued