Showing posts with label Indieoma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indieoma. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 August 2009
HEROES AND VILLAINS AT INDIEOMA
My short story 'Jacques d'Arc's Dream' is up at Indieoma in the Heroes and Villains commentaries. This story first appeared in my collection To The World of Men, Welcome, published by Arlen House.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
WE'RE WET AND DRY AT INDIEOMA
Over at Indieoma this week we're talking Wet and Dry. Only most of us are talking wet... as Johnny Others, one of our editors, points out:
"Maybe it's because water makes up 65-80% of a human body, represents around 75% of the world's surface, helps to create the most far-out forests, or simply the fact that (to our knowledge) life is impossible without it; Indieoma invites you to share our excitement at a decidedly moist feature."
I have three soggy poems here. I live in Galway for God's sake - all we know is the wet!
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Monsters & Aliens on Indieoma
We're talking monsters and aliens in our everyday lives over at Indieoma this week. I have 2 poems there. Those of you whom I know with kids, please don't take the sentiments in my poem 'Other People's Children' too literally...!
Barbara explores children too in a lovely piece on child-rearing and how it makes aliens of both kids and parents.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
GRIEF ARTICLE - INDIEOMA
Indieoma this week is looking at grief and mourning. I have an article called 'Mourning Your Own' there, about grief after my sister's death and also after miscarriage.
You can read and comment here.
Barbara Smith has three wonderful poems here.
You can read and comment here.
Barbara Smith has three wonderful poems here.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Irish Women's Writing: A Feminist Look
Image from the Velvet Banana blog. Unknown artist.
My article Irish Women's Writing: A Feminist Look is now live at Indieoma here.
It would be great if y'all would register** with the site and leave a comment. I know the article is long (I have a lot to say on the subject!) but you could always print it out and relax in your chair to read it.
Here's a taster:
"So what of the literary world? How do women fare there? As a feminist and full-time, female writer in Ireland, perhaps my biggest difficulty is with the wholesale promotion of chick lit. The problem is that, in Ireland – despite Irishwoman Anne Enright winning the Man Booker Prize last year, and despite iconic Irish writers such as Edna O’Brien – chick lit is held aloft as the women’s genre, as if no Irish women writers were writing quality literary fiction."
** I've just been told it's not necessary at the moment to register in order to leave a comment at Indieoma, so that's good.
Thursday, 19 March 2009
SHORT STORY AT INDIEOMA
I've a story Milo at Indieoma for this week's theme, 'Entertaining Guests' You can leave comments on the site, if you want...
Friday, 6 March 2009
POEMS AT INDIEOMA
I have two poems up at Indieoma today. Indieoma is a commentary site with themed issues and they approached me recently to write non-fiction about various aspects of life, including one on feminism which will be up at the end of March. My poems today come under the theme of advertising.
This is how they describe their site:
"Our goal is to take an independent look at life through the prism of art and ideas. We all have our favorite music, film, art and politics sites that we check regularly; but we saw a missing piece – something comprehensive that ties it all together in some kind of context. For us, that context is your day-to-day life." More here.
My poems are here in their Guest Writer section.
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