tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321Tue, 19 May 2026 07:20:12 +0000Irish PoetryPoem of the WeekArts and CultureOur PoetsLit. 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Every day, new ideas rise out of companies, expertly crafted to improve the customer experience, to make book buying simpler. New technology is pushed to the forefront and heralded as the future of publishing, that soon, all publishers will be using ebooks and turning completely to digital over print. The Digital Revolution, as it is called, is a http:///2013/09/speaking-out-for-small-press_16.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-1458368743509436095Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:52:00 +00002013-09-13T13:53:33.868-04:00Ireland Professor of PoetryPaula MeehanPoem of the Week<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; http:///2013/09/poem-of-week-plus-paula-meehans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-165774157031501161Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:06:00 +00002013-09-13T00:55:08.941-04:00Conor O'Callaghancontemporary poetryIrish PoetryOur PoetsThe Sun KingWake Forest University In his newest book, The Sun King, Conor O’Callaghan invites readers into the shockingly vulnerable and sometimes bitter consciousness of a speaker who offers an unedited confession of his most intimate experiences. The reader feels privy to the pain and desperation of a decaying domestic space. At times provocative and on the verge of profane, O’Callaghan does not shy away from the seedy aspectshttp:///2013/09/conor-ocallaghans-sun-king-shockingly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-7187461898051038511Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:15:00 +00002013-09-11T15:22:35.772-04:00Irish PoetryIrish Women's PoetryLit. Crit.Moya CannonThe wake forest series of Irish poetry volume 2 &nbsp; &nbsp;Milk Could he have known that any stranger's baby crying out loud in a street can start the flow? A stain that spreads on fustian or denim. This is kindness which in all our human time has refused to learn propriety, which still knows nothing but the depth of kinship, the depth of thirst. -Moya Cannon, The Wake Forest http:///2013/09/todays-lit-crit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-3012330126241091895Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:11:00 +00002013-09-09T13:29:55.673-04:00Arts and CultureIrish PoetryJohn MontagueMemorialPoetrySeamus HeaneyThe Irish Times “When asked to pronounce on Seamus’s death, a phrase coalesced in my mind: he did his work.” This, according to poet John Montague in his Sept. 7 memorial in the Irish Times, is the most succinct way to describe the late Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney Photo courtesy of poetryfoundation.org But his description, which seems so far removed from the beauty and lyrical feel of Heaney’s poetryhttp:///2013/09/realizing-destiny-in-full-on-death-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8204284154581366824Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:00:00 +00002013-09-02T12:15:17.608-04:00David OrrIrish PoetryLouis MacNeiceNew York Times Book ReviewOur Poets In his New York Times Sunday Book Review of Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems, entitled "Free Range", David Orr praises the palimpsestic nature of MaNeice's final volume.&nbsp; There is a haunting quality, perhaps to do with MacNeice's talent for refrain, which provides a chilling echo that permeates the soul and leaves the reader with lingering questions of one’s own identity. Perhaps it is http:///2013/09/louis-macneice-collected-poems-ny-times_2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8523682936839316239Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:30:00 +00002013-08-22T16:30:35.509-04:00Irish PoetryIrish Women's PoetryMedbh McGuckianPoem of the WeekThe High Caul Cap (photo from&nbsp;flowersreview.blogspot.com&nbsp;) "On Cutting One's Finger While Reaching for Jasmine" She talked about the aboutness of life, the eternal false illumination of the leftover nights, her lavender- skirted self who paced around the tousled bedroom, the otherwise good you. She incessantly made Os, Os of all sizes, Os inside one another, always drawn backwards in lilac ink by http:///2013/08/poem-of-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-5202561148536664020Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:13:00 +00002013-08-22T14:44:39.474-04:00Harry CliftonIrish PoetryIrish TimesOur PoetsThe Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass We’re delighted that Harry Clifton has been nominated for the&nbsp;Irish Times&nbsp;Poetry Now Award&nbsp;for 2013. &nbsp; Clifton is nominated for&nbsp;The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass;&nbsp;he previously won this most prestigious award in 2008 for&nbsp;Secular Eden. Winners will be announced on Sept 7.&nbsp; Stay tuned for the results! --Megan Latta http:///2013/08/fingers-crossed-for-harry-clifton_21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-6448196707125032544Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:43:00 +00002013-08-12T12:10:11.303-04:00Ciaran CarsonFor All We KnowIrish PoetryLit. Crit.Love PoemWake ForestWFU Press “The Fetch” Ciaran Carson I woke. You were lying beside me in the double bed, prone, your long dark hair fanned out over the downy pillow. I’d been dreaming we stood on a beach an ocean away watching the waves purl into their troughs and tumble over. Knit one, purl two, you said. Something in your voice made me think of women knitting by the guillotine. Your eyes met mine. The http:///2013/08/remarks-on-carsons-fetch-from-for-all_12.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8002678878820436616Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:15:00 +00002013-08-12T12:10:11.305-04:00Ciaran CarsonFor All We KnowIrish PoetryLit. Crit.Love PoemWake ForestWFU Press "The Fetch" Ciaran Carson To see one's own doppelganger is an omen of death. The doppelganger casts no reflection in a mirror. Shelley saw himself swimming towards himself before he drowned. Lincoln met his fetch at the stage door before he was shot. It puts me in mind of prisoners interrogated, of one telling his story so well he could see himself performing in it, speaking thehttp:///2013/08/reading-carsons-fetch-from-for-all-we.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-29006876748375603Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:37:00 +00002013-08-12T12:12:43.796-04:00Arts and CultureIrish PoetryIrish Women's PoetryPoetryThe Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry volume 3Wake Forest UniversityWFU PressThe Paris launch earlier this month included readings by the anthology's featured poets, an appearance by Volume 3 editor and author of the forthcoming book The Sun King Conor O'Callaghan, as well as a lecture on the state and future of Irish poetry by Wake Forest Press director Professor Jefferson Holdridge. We at the press remain very excited about this book and the wealth of talent it containshttp:///2013/07/the-wake-forest-series-of-irish-poetry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8515573625841686174Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:42:00 +00002013-08-12T12:12:56.205-04:00Brendan KennellyIrish PoetryEvincing a bit of the good-humored aplomb for which he's long enjoyed a reputation as a people's poet among his Irish readership, Brendan Kennelly quipped that he'd "have to throw myself around in the sea in Ballybunion to shock my childhood memories back." Kennelly and daughter Doodle will reportedly begin work on the biography next month, in the poet's native Kerry. You can read more about the http:///2013/07/kennelly-to-collaborate-with-daughter_8.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-6001529489230649073Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:27:00 +00002013-07-03T13:28:21.433-04:00At long last, and after much blood, sweat, and data-entry, we've finally launched our new website. Check it out at&nbsp;http://cdn.wfupress.wfu.edu/, where you'll find an updated product catalogue, a streamlined order and payment system, a general aesthetic facelift, and links to our Facebook and Twitter pages.http:///2013/07/our-new-website-is-live.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8636707424723989243Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:27:00 +00002013-06-20T15:27:38.274-04:00"The subversive half-brick, conveniently hand-sized, is an essential ingredient of the ammunition known as 'Belfast confetti', and has been tried and trusted by a generation of rioters."--Ciaran Carson, "Brick"What happens when the "real world" gets in the way of creativity? Glenn Patterson happened to be leading a workshop for the Fermanaugh Writers in Enniskellen--while the G8 summit was in http:///2013/06/belfast-confetti-writers-workshops-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-6614273191820578998Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:53:00 +00002013-08-22T16:33:04.132-04:00Irish PoetryJustin QuinnPoem of the WeekThe Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry volume 3A poem by Justin Quinn, from the upcoming&nbsp;Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, volume III "Landscape by Bus" Look out the window--half A landscape, half its trees. Switch focus. Reflections of The rest float by on these. At sixty miles an hour The world's being folded back Into a suitcase. &nbsp;Where Oh where will I unpack?http:///2013/06/landscape-by-bus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-516623065412083999Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:25:00 +00002013-06-06T14:09:41.300-04:00 Harry Clifton’s poem “Picardy” was highlighted in the latest piece for The Poetry Project. &nbsp;Take a few moments to just breath and enjoy a mental health break with this combination of poetry and natural imagery: &nbsp;David Farrell and Harry Clifton, "Picardy"&nbsp;. "Picardy" is from Clifton's volume&nbsp;Secular Eden, winner of the 2008 Irish Times Poetry Now award. &nbsp;If you http:///2013/06/the-poetry-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8870137489446130771Thu, 30 May 2013 18:12:00 +00002013-05-30T14:15:23.253-04:00 On May 17th, in conjunction with Ireland’s National Poetry Day celebrations, contemporary poets gathered to mark the 50th anniversary of Louis MacNeice’s death. Sinéad Morrissey, Ciaran Carson, Lucy Caldwell, and others joined together for readings at Ulster Hall in Belfast. MacNeice also has an international appeal, as demonstrated by the participation of Bermudian poet Paul Maddern (as noted http:///2013/05/louis-macneice-poetry-evening.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-2650597699341433952Thu, 30 May 2013 17:01:00 +00002013-05-30T13:25:32.831-04:00Ah, John Montague! He and Paddy Maloney are appearing together tomorrow, May 31st, at the Arms Hotel as part of the Listowel Writers Week. You may know that the Chieftains got their name from one of John's poems long ago, so it's particularly apt that they're doing poetry and music together at the festival. And Montague received the John B. King Lifetime Achievement Award at the this week there, http:///2013/05/ah-john-montague-he-and-paddy-maloney.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-5537700618480749160Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:00 +00002013-05-17T11:10:29.453-04:00 If you weren't able to make it to our Wake: Up to Poetry reading and celebration last month, you're in luck. Thanks to The Wake Forest Interdisciplinary Performance and Liberal Arts Center (iPLACe) and the Wake Forest Documentary Film Program, we now have this lovely video of highlights from the event. We hope you enjoy these excerpts from the readings along with interviews from the contest http:///2013/05/wake-up-to-poetry-reading-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-7490319971846882270Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:42:00 +00002013-04-26T16:48:52.156-04:00Poem of the WeekThe Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry volume 3Do you have a memory of a childhood trip? "Going Places" by John McAuliffe from the upcoming Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry Volume III, is a tribute to such journeys. As we get older, it is sometimes comforting to remember the times when we got to sit in the backseat and imagine "giant invisible horses", instead of focusing on the reality of adulthood in which one must sit in the front seat http:///2013/04/poem-of-week_26.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-6678067500768941393Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:16:00 +00002013-04-23T14:16:05.100-04:00Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinIleana MălăncioiuIrish Women's PoetryLit. Crit.Poetry ReviewThe Antioch ReviewThe spring 2013 issue of&nbsp;The Antioch Review&nbsp;takes a thoughtful look at our recent volume,&nbsp;Legend of the Walled-up Wife,&nbsp;Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's&nbsp;translations of Ileana Mălăncioiu's poetry. &nbsp;Written under the Ceaușescu regime, the book has dark, chilling imagery throughout and critic Benjamin S. Grossberg writes: "Mălăncioiu often blurs the line between life and deathhttp:///2013/04/legend-of-walled-up-wife-featured-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-5574776360492467826Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:31:00 +00002013-04-22T11:31:35.819-04:00Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinIrish PoetryThe Sun-fishWFU Press Our very own Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reads “The Polio Epidemic” from The Sun-fish. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Video courtesy of The Gallery Press Visit our website and order your copy of The Sun-fish today!&nbsp; http:///2013/04/a-reading-by-eilean-ni-chuilleanain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-8547927464471674646Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:03:00 +00002013-04-19T14:03:44.938-04:00Medbh McGuckianPoem of the Week &nbsp; Welcome to "The Realm of Nothing Whatever". We have unusual hours. It is only when you are groggy and not quite awake that you can quietly enter this dreamlike space and&nbsp;see&nbsp;striking simliarities between unalike things.&nbsp;&nbsp;Before you can articulate what you have seen, the time of day is gone. You are awake. Careful with the door on the way out. The Realm of http:///2013/04/poem-of-week_19.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993140733507216321.post-2988202301902220135Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:19:00 +00002013-04-17T12:19:11.214-04:00Irish PoetryLouis MacNeiceWFU Press Literary Giants: From left, Louis MacNeice, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, W.H. Auden&nbsp; and Stephen Spender at Faber and Faber publishing party If you’re looking to be the owner of a rare literary moment in history, look no further! This iconic photograph shows the five men congregating at a party organized by their publisher, Faber and Faber. Taken in 1960 by photographer Mark Gerson, the http:///2013/04/historic-photograph-featuring-louis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (WFU Press)1