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, Journalists, Novelists, Theatre, tagged Didion, Journalists, New York, Theatre, Writers on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, September 13, 2008
The apartment is as you’d expect. Books are everywhere – on the tables, on the ottomans, on the shelves around the pale, high walls – and where there are no books there are photographs; silver-framed family snapshots, tinted now with an intense melancholy. That autumn afternoon by Bethesda [...]
Posted in Interviews, Journalists, New Yorkers, Poets, tagged Alice Quinn, Elizabeth Bishop on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, March 27, 2007
In the offices of the New Yorker, high up over the tumult of Times Square, there is a small, windowless room. But, crammed as it is with books, papered as it is with manuscripts, piled as it is with pages fresh from hopeful envelopes, this is a room [...]
