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The Moth (magazine)
''The Moth'' is an international arts and literature magazine, based in Milltown, County Cavan, Ireland. It features poetry, short fiction, art and interviews. The magazine was established in 2010 by Rebecca O'Connor and Will Govan and is produced four times a year. Former contributors include Max Porter, Claire-Louise Bennett, Mike McCormack, Joshua Cohen, Suzanne Joinson, Rob Doyle, Thomas Morris, Sara Baume, Lee Rourke, Thomas Maloney, June Caldwell, Owen Booth, Robert McLiam Wilson, Nicholas Hogg, John Boyne, Nuala Ni Conchúir, Hilary Fannin and Stephen May. A junior version is also published, called ''The Caterpillar'', aimed at 7-11 year olds. Prizes run by ''The Moth'' include The Moth International Poetry Prize, The Moth Short Story Prize, The Caterpillar Poetry Prize, The Caterpillar Short Story Prize and The Moth Art Prize. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milltown, County Cavan
Milltown (),. is a small Co. Cavan village estimated population of around 100 persons. During a nineteenth century O'Donavan townlands survey of Co. Cavan it was noted that the Milttown area was traditionally referred to as ''Bellanaleck'' (''Beal Atha Na Leice'' - the mouth of the ford of the flagstone), there are no other records with this name. The ''Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan'' notes ''(507) Derrygeeraghan'' , a raised circular ''Rath'' area with two substantial earthen banks and a wide deep fosse dating from earlier medieval times. The present Milltown Electoral Division and catchment area comprises several neighboring townlands within an ancient Barony of Loughtee Lower, Co. Cavan and Drumlane Civil Parish in County Cavan, Ireland. Milltown Village History The earliest mention of a Milltown village land area can be found in the register of deeds dated to 1725. It refers to " ''that house and farm commonly known and referred to as Milltown situated in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Landau
Deborah Landau (born 1973) is an American poet, essayist, and critic. Landau's "taut, elegant, highly controlled constructions" have been described as "confessional and direct, like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg." Her meditations upon yearning and selfhood are said to remind us "of the nuanced beauty of language." Jennifer Michael Hecht has praised her poems as "Terrificly smart, witty, and slightly terrifying." Nick DePascal asserts that Landau's work "accurately matches form to content" and "leads the reader down a particular path through style as much as the meaning of the actual words on the page...." ''Publishers Weekly'' has described her work as "haunting," "stunning," "dark, urgent, sexy, deeply sad, and, above all, powerful." Landau's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in ''The Paris Review'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The New Yorker'', '' The Kenyon Review'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''The Best American Poetry,'' ''The Nation'',''The Best American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Magazines Published In Ireland
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the Sanskrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Macdonald (writer)
Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer, naturalist, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. She is best known as the author of ''H is for Hawk'', which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award.Anita SinghH is for Hawk wins Costa Book of the Year award, The Telegraph, 27 January 2015. In 2016, it also won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Early life Macdonald was born in 1970, the child of ''Daily Mirror'' photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald, and grew up in Surrey. Writing about her childhood for ''The Guardian'' in 2018, Macdonald said, "I grew up in Camberley, a Victorian town on the A30 in Surrey. It was made of pine forests, golf courses, elderly army officers with parade ground voices, Conservative clubs and tea dances. In 1975 my parents had bought a little white house in Tekels Park, a private estate near the town centre. It was owned by the Theosophical Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mabey
Richard Thomas Mabey (born 20 February 1941) is a writer and broadcaster, chiefly on the relations between nature and culture. Education Mabey was educated at three independent schools, all in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. The first was at Rothesay School, followed by Berkhamsted Preparatory School and then Berkhamsted School. He then went to St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Life and work After Oxford, Mabey worked as a lecturer in Social Studies in Further Education at Dacorum College, Hemel Hempstead, then as a senior editor at Penguin Books. He became a full-time writer in 1974. He spent most of his life among the beechwoods of the Chilterns. He now lives in the Waveney Valley in Norfolk, with his partner Polly Lavender, and retreats to a boat on the Norfolk Broads. In the 1970s and 80s Mabey wrote and presented several television documentaries. He appeared in the 1975 BBC programme '' In Deepest Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Smith
Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting". Early life and education Smith was born in Inverness on 24 August 1962 to Ann and Donald Smith. Her parents were working-class and she was raised in a council house in Inverness. From 1967 to 1974 she attended St. Joseph's RC Primary school, then went on to Inverness High School, leaving in 1980. She studied a joint degree in English language and literature at the University of Aberdeen from 1980 to 1985, coming first in her class in 1982 and gaining a top first in Senior Honours English in 1984. She won the University's Bobby Aitken Memorial Prize for Poetry in 1984. From 1985 to 1990 she attended Newnham College, Cambridge, studying for a PhD in American and Irish modernism. During her time at Cambridge, she began writing plays and as a result did not complete her doctorate. Smith moved to Edin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work. Life, work and studies In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award—in the Novels rather than Children's Books category—for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time''. He also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the Best First Book category, as ''The Curious Incident'' was considered his first book written for adults; he also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of children's writers. The book was furthermore long listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. ''The Curious Incident'' is written from the perspective of an autistic 15-year-old boy, Christopher John Francis Boone. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Barry
Kevin Gerard Barry (20 January 1902 – 1 November 1920) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. His execution inflamed nationalist public opinion in Ireland, largely because of his age. The timing of the execution, only seven days after the death by hunger strike of Terence MacSwiney, the republican Lord Mayor of Cork, brought public opinion to a fever-pitch. His pending death sentence attracted international attention, and attempts were made by U.S. and Vatican officials to secure a reprieve. His execution and MacSwiney's death precipitated an escalation in violence as the Irish War of Independence entered its bloodiest phase, and Barry became an Irish republican martyr. Early life Kevin Barry was born on 20 January 1902, at 8 Fleet Street, Dublin, to T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit De Waal
Mandy Theresa O'Loughlin (born 26 July 1960), known professionally as Kit de Waal, is a British/Irish writer. Her debut novel, ''My Name Is Leon'', was published by Penguin Books in June 2016. After securing the publishing deal with Penguin, De Waal used some of her advance to set up the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Scholarship to help improve working-class representation in the arts.Dawn Foster"Kit de Waal: 'Working-class stories need to be told'" ''The Guardian'', 3 February 2016. The audiobook version of ''My Name is Leon'' is voiced by Sir Lenny Henry. De Waal has also published short stories, including the collection ''Supporting Cast'' (2020). Early life De Waal was born in Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England, and grew up in the suburb of Moseley. She is a national of both Britain and Ireland. Her mother, Sheila O'Loughlin (), was a foster carer, registered child minder and auxiliary nurse. Her father, Arthur Desmond O'Loughlin, was an African-Caribbean bus drive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donal Ryan
Donal Ryan (born 1976) is an Irish people, Irish writer. He has published six novels and one short story collection. In 2016, novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry described Ryan in The Guardian, ''The Guardian'' newspaper as "the king of the new wave of Irish writers". All of his novels have been number one bestsellers in Ireland. Biography Donal Ryan was born outside Nenagh, County Tipperary, Tipperary, in 1976. He holds a degree in law from the University of Limerick where he now lectures in Creative Writing. He worked for the National Employment Rights Authority until April 2014. He is married and lives in Castletroy, County Limerick, with his wife and two children. Ryan has won numerous awards for his fiction, among them the European Union Prize for Literature, the Guardian First Book Award and four Irish Book Awards, and has been shortlisted for several more, including the Costa Book Awards, Costa Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, IMPAC award. In S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda McKeon
Belinda McKeon (born 1979) is an Irish writer. She is the author of two novels, ''Solace'', which won the 2011 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and ''Tender'' (2015). Life and work McKeon was born in Longford and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Dublin (UCD). From 2000 to 2010 she worked for ''The Irish Times'', writing on theatre, literature and the arts. In 2005 she moved to New York City, where she completed an MFA at Columbia University. McKeon's first novel, ''Solace'', won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer Award and was named Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year in 2011, as well as being shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. ''The Economist'' called ''Solace'' "a warm and wise debut", while ''The Irish Times'' described it as "at once a moving and gracefully etched story of human loss and interconnection set in contemporary Ireland and a deeply affecting meditation on being in the world". H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra (born 1966) is a British poet whose debut collection, ''Look We Have Coming to Dover!'' – a title alluding to W. H. Auden's ''Look, Stranger!'', D. H. Lawrence's ''Look! We Have Come Through!'' and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" – was published by Faber in February 2007. Nagra's poems relate to the experience of Indians born in the UK (especially Indian Sikhs), and often employ language that imitates the English spoken by Indian immigrants whose first language is Punjabi, which some have termed "Punglish". He currently works part-time at JFS School in Kenton and visits schools, universities and festivals where he performs his work. He was appointed chair of the Royal Society of Literature in November 2020. Early life and education Daljit Nagra, whose Sikh Punjabi parents came to Britain from India in the late 1950s, was born and grew up in Yiewsley, near London's Heathrow Airport, the family moving to Sheffield in 1982. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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