Posted in Features, Ireland, Journalists, Poetry, Poets, tagged Literary Journalism, Mark Doty, Poetry, Poetry Interviews, W.S. Merwin on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: Poetry Ireland Newsletter, March 2009
This is how I make my living, or a large part of it: I sit and talk with poets. Sometimes, I go to their houses to talk with them; sometimes, I spend an hour with them in a cafe, or a restaurant, or a hotel bar; sometimes, I sit [...]
Posted in Interviews, Ireland, Music, New Yorkers, Poetry, Poets, tagged Bill Whelan, Michael Longley on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, March 14th, 2009
DEPRESSION HAS TO be outside of our options at the moment,” says Bill Whelan. He’s talking about Ireland. He’s talking about the end of that era in Irish history to which some believe Whelan himself, with Riverdance in 1994, wrote the official soundtrack: the Celtic Tiger. Which is [...]
