If you want to have some idea of what is going on in contemporary Dublin, poetrywise, you might like to purchase a copy of Flare. This is the latest issue, you can see the list of writers included above. My old friend Michael Whelan is there, I see. Along with a few other familiar names. Arthur Bloomfield, a fellow Beckett head, I reviewed his book for A New Ulster some years back. Colin Dardis from up North, nice to see him included. He must have read while he was down on his travels here pre-Covid 19. The publication has a very strict policy of only publishing writers who have read at the Sunflower Sessions a sister group to the narrowsheet, as it were. Then there's the Editor himself, Monsieur Mag Uidhir, and Bob Shakeshaft bedad, all the way out here in Skerries like myself. Eleanor Hooker is a big draw, never had the pleasure of meeting her, but I've seen her work published in Poetry Foundation. So, a wide breadth of writing styles, by any standard. Good to see my Baudelaire transversion in among them all, with the original in French of course. Charles might be pleased...
If you'd like to purchase a copy, do so here.
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