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Stephen Sexton, a poet from Northern Ireland, is the 2020 E. M. Forster Award winner and author of a pamphlet, Oils, published in 2014 and, most…
Ireland
“I’m in Sympathy That Things Are Lovely But They’re Not Forever”: A Conversation with Stephen Sexton
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October 16, 2017Clifden Bookshop, Galway / Photo by janmennensWhile Ireland’s increasingly multicultural population has finally led to a greater representation of diversity in Irish fiction, this essay r…
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August 21, 2015Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams.News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on in…
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