Irish literary magazines: from the visually stunning to the unapologetically plain
Mei Chin on Holy Show; Dublin Review; Banshee; Splonk; and Four Faced Liar
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Mei Chin on Holy Show; Dublin Review; Banshee; Splonk; and Four Faced Liar
“On my 8th birthday I got a diary. I had nothing to say, but I filled the page with words, like happy, happy, happy.”
Eventbrite - New Island Books presents Book Launch | The New Frontier: Writing from the Irish Border - Thursday, 28 October 2021 at Verbal Arts Centre, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Find event and ticket information.
Reviewer score To mark its reigning year as European Capital of Culture, The Stinging Fly invited writers established and new to submit work inspired by the City of the Tribes. The result is this Galway-themed edition with Lisa McInerney ( The Glorious Heresies) at the helm and Elaine Feeney ( As You Were) as poetry editor. In her introduction, Lisa McInerney writes that Galway is 'more complex than its popular image.’ We can take it then that this collection intends to reflect on that very complexity. Galway is frequently romanticised, and not just from the outside. It’s long been a ma...