Gloom Cupboard

Contributor to ‘The Gloom Cupboard’ and more recently to ‘Full of Crow’, Miceál Kearney is a breath of fresh air to Irish poetry, as evidenced by his first collection, ‘Inheritance’.  To anyone familiar with contemporary Irish literature it seems like we’re plagued by books harking back to the golden past of a rural setting, they [...]

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Authors get advances. Writers get day jobs. This is a guest post by CalebJRoss as part of his Stranger Will Tour for Strange blog tour. He will be guest-posting beginning with the release of his novel Stranger Will in March 2011 to the release of his second novel, I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin in [...]

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I’m loath to knock the idea of self-publishing, or self-published poets, especially as I went down that route for my first three chapbooks, but there are many worthwhile lessons to be learned by submitting to and publishing in literary magazines, establishing a track record of publication before seeing one’s first full collection go into print. [...]

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A Review of Craig Sernotti’s Forked Tongue—If You’re Into That Very early in the movie Meet Joe Black—far too soon for anyone to expect it—Brad Pitt gets creamed by a speeding van, and the theater, at least the one I was in, hung back in silence before nervous laughter bubbled out into the air as [...]

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Reviewed by Tiffany Schlarman  http://acozyreaderscorner.blogspot.com/   “Life in the Slow Lane” is the humorous account of Thomas Sullivan’s  short career in Drivers education. Thomas, who has worked in various industries due to obtaining a Bachelors’ in History with a minor in  Business, a Masters in Agricultural Economics and Associates in  cartography, landed a part time [...]

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Review by Alan Garvey I don’t like rave reviews. I don’t trust them either – they’re usually written by friends / college mates / those who are looking-for favours or about the living great whose every written word seems to be momentous, a part of history and an object of study – which is why [...]

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Once upon a time artists were radicals.  I mean, like blatant radicals.  Nowadays, some (I don’t know about most, but for my argument we’re just going to say some) artists are activists, but only off camera, or outside of their professional artwork.  I cannot pinpoint the exact time and date when it all changed, but [...]

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Where’s Katie? by Elaine Feeney Reviewed by Alan Garvey I’m not going to take the easy way out and liken Elaine Feeney to Rita Ann Higgins, they’re both from Galway with an affinity for those who don’t often make the front pages, and that’s almost it as far as likenesses go. I’m not going to [...]

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