Christmas is better expressed through poetry, not prose. Prose typically deals in the raw stuff of lived experience, while poetry is strained through memory
Halloween comes in on thought-provoking footing in North Kerry as the village of Moyvane opens its 30th annual Village Festival with a retrospective on the work of its late, native son John Moriarty.
An ongoing row about the running of Listowel Writers Week culminated in a difficult year for its most recent curator, Northern Irish poet Stephen Connolly.