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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 recently…
Ireland
“I’m in Sympathy That Things Are Lovely But They’re Not Forever”: A Conversation with Stephen Sexton
April 2, 2020
October 16, 2017Clifden Bookshop, Galway / Photo by janmennens While Ireland’s increasingly multicultural population has finally led to a greater representation of diversity in Irish fiction, this essay…
November 30, 2015Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman. “Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still…
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 inte…
July 18, 2012Photos from Ó Bhéal, Cork City’s six-years-old-and-still-going-strong weekly poetry reading. Ó Bhéal / Paul Casey An American fiction writer faces a crisis of self-doubt upon fi…
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