Irish issue in Kennebec Journal
Check out an awesome write up by the Kennebec Journal about our latest Irish issue!!
“Everywhere you go, it seems, there are people with a soft spot in their hearts for Irish literature. It’s a special-interest group, in a way, with a sort of heightened intensity of feeling about family or historical ties to the Old Country, or for the curiosities of the Irish Gaelic language, or sometimes just an affinity for W.B. Yeats or Seamus Heaney.
Here in Maine, I knew a press technician who was teaching himself Gaelic. Hugh Curran, a longtime Surry resident and poet who was born in Ireland, sends frequent email alerts about Irish poetry and culture. And Steve Luttrell, of Portland, also has these roots, and he traveled to Ireland last month to kick off the spring issue of his long-running Cafe Review magazine because it contains a healthy slam of poetry straight from contemporary Ireland.
The selections are diverse in subject matter, and relatively uniform in tone and tenor. From the 34 contributing poets, there are many angles on the Irish landscape (including several images from the cliffs of Moher) and on the relationship of language to both personal and sometimes political (a perennial Irish preoccupation) realities. And there are color reproductions of woodcuts by Nonie O’Neill and, in an inevitable nod to history, of oil paintings of Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Brendan Behan by Liam O’Neill.”….. Click below to read more
http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/06/09/off-radar-cafe-review/
OVER THE EDGE in Galway Ireland
Check out this great little write up about our very own Steve Luttrell’s reading from our latest Irish issue that’s happening in Galway on May 13 at the The Kitchen @ The Museum, Spanish Arch, Galway! Stop by and say hi if you are around!
http://www.overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.ie/2016/05/may-over-edge-writers-gathering-with.html
Café Review 2016 Spring Issue
Special Irish Issue
Our Spring 2016 Special Irish Issue is now available featuring poetry by Pat Boran, Paul Casey, Stephanie Conn, Dónall Dempsey, Theo Dorgan, Noel Duffy, Susan Millar DuMars, Michael Durack, Janice Fitzpatrick-Simmons, Órfhlaith Foyle, Mark Granier, Jack Harte, Aideen Henry, Kevin Higgins, Kevin Kiely, Brian Kirk, John Liddy, Susan Lindsay, John MacKenna, Thomas McCarthy, Afric McGlinchey, Paula Meehan, Cláir Ní Aonghusa, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Ciaran O’Driscoll, Seamus Ruttledge, Lorna Shaughnessy, Eileen Sheehan, Jessica Traynor, John Walsh, Adam White, Macdara Woods and Adam Wyeth with artwork from Liam O’Neill and Nonie O’Neill.
Old Ballerina Club
Late in January of 2016 a collection of poems by poet Sharon Olinka, a past and frequent contributor to The Cafe Review with her own poems and poetry book reviews, was released by Dos Madres Press. The front cover collage image and a dozen more collages that appear within the book were made by senior editor of TCR Wayne Atherton.
To order a copy of the Old Ballerina Club and to view the entire catalog of Dos Madres Press publications, go to https://www.dosmadres.com/