Dave Lordan

Dave Lordan is some cunt for writing this collection. And I mean that in the same way that Slippy-Sloppy would mean it. Slippy-Sloppy (a nickname for Stephen) was a bloke I used to work alongside in the Dunkin’ Donuts bakery in Cherry…

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone... Its Lit Review Time. Events The latest edition of the Gorse literary journal will be launched tomorrow evening (Thursday 25th) in the Liquor Rooms. There will be readings from Dominique…

Something wicked this way comes... It's the Lit Review. Events This Friday, Professor Mary MacAleese will launch Poems of Reposession, the first critical anthology of twentieth century poetry in Irish (with English translations.) The…

This month is going to be mad. Poets don't do summer holidays, they do poetry and this July is no exception. So get yourself to a poetry event, read a poem, write a poem, get jiggy with a damn poem. Here's July's poetrybeat round up to show…

Young Irelanders, the name of this new anthology of short stories, is well titled with its echoes of the 1848 rebellion in famine-ravaged Ireland. In this year, a group of romantic nationalists and intellectuals heavily influenced by events…

MY MOTHER SPEAKS TO ME OF SUICIDE My mother calls me up again to speak to me of suicide. Another young man in the west has committed his suicide. She tells me that I knew him in my teenage years before I left home instead…