Review: Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer

First Published: The Irish Times, January 26, 2008
‘I lob stones,” says the speaker in Messaien’s Piano, the opening poem in Fiona Sampson’s Common Prayer (Carcanet). In a collection intensely preoccupied with the challenges of form, with its fragile yet dogged conditions, the stones suggest stanzas and syllables; the act of lobbing them, poetry itself.
And about [...]

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Richard Maxwell, Playwright and Director

First Published: The Irish Times, January 8, 2008
Richard Maxwell has been watching a lot of Westerns, and the signs are on him. The names of the great films, of the great actors and directors, weave through his speech as naturally and as frequently as do the names of those experimental theatre-makers who have long formed [...]

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