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Friday, May 3, 2024

The Fetishist, Reading the First two Chapters from my Novel in Progress

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The Eroica Variations Part 1, see also The Fetishist

The first few sonnets that inspired The Eroica Variations, The Fetishist ( novel)

La Societé des Lectures de Céline ( SLC)

My blog The Gombeen is mentioned in their newsletter, 2023.

Trinity College London, Transformative Teachers

Developing Writing Fluency

Commuting with Baudelaire

I am inspired by the everyday; the task at hand to render it Extra-ordinary!

The Eroica Variations, part 1

Film made by E.A.D Sellors, Ragged Lion, London.

Yer Man

First chapter of a novel I am currently working on

4 from The Bridge - the sequel to Henry Street Arcade

O'Connell Street Bridge with Lafayette House, Dubhlinn.

Chris Murray - a review of some of her books

Making Den of Sibyl Wren by Salma Ahmad Caller, 2018

Shadab Zeest Hashmi

An exquisite artist

Jose Manuel Cardona translated from the Spanish by his daughter Helene Cardona

Without a doubt, one of the most interesting discoveries in the last few years. Read my review.

Carmen Francesca Banciu

My review of her novel Fleeing Father

Divertimento - The Muse is a Dominatrix

Photo credit Christophe Mourthe

The Dublin Trilogy

The idea has always been to attempt to transpose Baudelaire's 19th century French aesthetic to contemporary 21st century Dublin.

Henry Street Arcade, Les Cosaques des Frontieres

Yan Kouton in Place Dauphine, Paris, 2021.

Place Saint Michel, Paris, September, 2021.

Photo credit, Liam.

LAPWING PUBLICATIONS, BELFAST.

3 of my collections are available for sale on their website, just click on the image to purchase a copy of The Enemy, Sker, or The Elm Tree.

The Execution of Orpheus at Ephesus - a short film

Taken from the hybrid novella More Micks than Dicks

With Marie Heaney and Thomas Brezing in The Gresham Hotel, 2017.

Click on the image to know more about this particular event.

Henry Street Arcade - my latest book ( 2021)

A Homage to Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire and James Joyce

Organize, Host, and Participate ...

The Bicentenary of Baudelaire for AF, Dublin

Dublin Gothic

Kilmog Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2015.

The Worm God by Augusto Dos Anjos

Brazil's Greatest Poet ( 1884-1914)

Dante's Inferno, Canto 1, Transversion

Christine Murray's Poethead Blog

Future Of English Language Teaching Conference, 2022

Introducing The 3 Hats Method - Trinity, London.

Loughshinny Boathouse Residency

This project led to the long poem mare nostrum treating the subject of an ancient Roman trading post at Loughshinny, County Dublin.

HOW IT IS - GARE SAINT LAZARE IRELAND

How It Is Symposium, Review by Celine Thobois for Samuel Beckett Society

From The Ass Mimes of Antiquity ( collection in progress)

Photo Daniele Idini

3rd Fingal Poetry Festival, 2022

Reading with Ciara Ni E, Sunday 18th, September, Joe May's 1pm

5 Poems from Poems in the Manner of the Devil

My hometown Sker, north county Dublin

Latest poem from Poems in the Manner of the Devil

Harry Clarke ( 1889 - 1931) has always been an influence

Portraits of James Barry and Edmund Burke in the Characters of Ulysses and Companions with Cyclops

Extract from Rek novel/la in progress Cassandra Voices

THE DARK POOL - DEAD MAN'S INK PRESS EDITION, 2022.

My first collection originally published back in 2015 has just been made available on Amazon again. With many thanks to J at Dead Man's Ink Press.

My response to Lois P. Jones

I told Lois that I would write a review, but her book prompted me to write the following poem. She's a wonderful writer.

NATIONAL TRANSLATION MONTH, 2021

I was very honoured to have some of my transversions chosen by Claudia Serena and Loren Kleinman appearing alongside Nina Kossman and Yuyutsu Sherma among others.

Artemis & Baudelaire

Place Dauphine, Paris.

ON LOVE & LITERATURE

Vico..Joyce & Beckett

The Train Station - A Chapter from On Country Matters

The Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard is the inspiration behind this book, basically everything I hate about Ireland will go in here. Celine is another influence...

MARTIN HEIDEGGER'S DASEIN AS A POSSIBLE ANTIDOTE TO CONTEMPORARY GENDER POLITICS

Photo credit - Victor Dragomiretchi

PROMENADE IN DUNLAOGHAIRE, from The Dark Pool

Laura/Alessia, Tunaria- Porto Palma, on the Costa Verde, Sardinia, 2001. We met the year before this photograph was taken and we have been together now for 21 years! We celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary in September this year. I have dedicated The Dark Pool, Dublin Gothic and Henry Street Arcade to her as without her support they would never have been written.

Ballybaa is a reference to Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy

The motif of the sheep is really important, as it signals Cain and Abel. I have written an essay on this which you can find on another post on this blog. Happy hunting!

Origins - 1st chapter of Hibernation, novel in progress

Ever since the mid-nineties I have been a fan of Raymond Chandler and I have been working on a version of The Big Sleep set in contemporary Dublin. Here is a taste of it.

Co-Edit April, 2020 issue with Mark Ulyseas

A lot of the writers I asked to submit to this issue were known personally to me, writers and artists with whom I have met and collaborated with in some way over the years. It's a great issue, have a look inside!

THE BAUDELAIREAN IDEAL - 2 500 Hits! ( and counting...)

This is my most popular post, I am so very proud of this as Baudelaire has a very toxic masculine image, yet this is just one aspect of him. He was also one of the first feminists, I would counter!

EVE - after Les Fleurs du Mal

I picked up this 1935 edition of LFDM in 1995, just before leaving Paris after a five year sejour.

Daniel Wade and myself on O'Donovan Rossa Bridge, Dublin 2021.

Despite almost a generation separating us, Dan is probably the writer I can most identify with. Here is his review of Henry Street Arcade for Cassandra Voices.

Henry Street Arcade, 2021

My first bilingual collection of poetry, with Translations into French by Yan Kouton. This book was inspired by the arcade in Dublin, Walter Benjamin and Charles Baudelaire.

Baudelaire at 200!

After our celebrations with the AF, some of the poets who joined me for the bicentenary celebrations headline this issue edited by Yuyutsu Sharma and instigated by Helene Cardona.

Two of my favorite poets

Michael J. Whelan & Christine Murray

Author Portrait by Sandrine Mercier, Paris, 1997/8

3 poems from Divertimento, The Muse is a Dominatrix

At Home

Where I work best - like only poems can dance - The Blue Nib

Baudelaire Translation

Le Poison

Commuting with Baudelaire

The Genesis of Henry Street Arcade - Levure Litteraire

The Gladstone Readings Anthology, Famous Seamus, 2017.

Pictured center with Christine Murray ( L), John Sexton (R), Michael J. Whelan, David Rigsbee with his Daughter Makaiya ( extreme R), /Enda Coyle Greene, Roisin Browne, Eamon Mag Uidhir, and Jim Ferguson

Gare Saint Lazare Ireland - First How It Is Symposium

With my son Liam, Paris, 2018.

Pranzo a Tunaria - Rio Murtas

Poem in Italian for my wife Laura, Levure Litteraire.

Broadsheet with Art Work by Thomas Brezing for Sale

2 Sonnets Translated into German - PalmArtPress, Berlin

Syrian poet Osama Esber

Translates some of my poems into Arabic

Les Cosaques des Frontieres

En Francais et/and in English

Linda Morales Caballero Translates 3 poems from The Eroica Variations into Spanish

From Nueva York Poetry Review

Review of The Dark Pool by Michael S. Begnal

I was very happy to be reviewed alongside Trevor Joyce.

Rimbaud et moi ( 2020)

The only contemporary English speaking poet, out of 59, to have a poem featured in this wonderful anthology. Very proud of this. The publisher, who is from the Ardennes himself like Rimbaud, eventually went on to publish my first bilingual collection of poetry Henry Street Arcade.

The Scum Gentry

The first anthology I contributed significantly to, 2013. Punk Lit. I'm still very much into this idea. Having been inspired by poets and artists such as Baudelaire, Beckett , Francis Bacon, the Surrealists and of course the punk rock bands that I grew up with during the 1980's...

Leo

My first time seeing a poem of mine in print

The Gladstone Readings Anthology

I hosted the readings in my local pub here in Skerries for almost two years ( 2015/16).

The Bicentenary Celebration for the Birth of Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 - 2021)

I organize, participate and host this festival for the Alliance Francaise. I am very proud of this achievement, I got a NG in junior cert French.

LIVE ENCOUNTERS

July, 2021 - Osama Esber
The Dark Rose & Other Poems
The Eroica Variations part I
The Eroica Variations part II
The Eroica Variations part III
The Eroica Variations part IV

Cassandra Voices

ReWilding Literature
l'Homme et la Merde
A une charogne / The Exquisite Cadaver
Amazons - The Baudelairean Ideal
Daniel Wade Reviews Henry Street Arcade
Review of Carmen Francesca Banciu's novel Fleeing Father

Reviews

Helene Cardona
Shadab Zeest Hashmi
Christine Murray

MORE MICKS THAN DICKS

My bestselling book ( 1000 copies sold, 2017), currently out of print and selling on Amazon for ridiculous prices.

HENRY STREET ARCADE ( 2021)

My first bilingual book - Translations made by Yan Kouton. It is, without a doubt, my finest book. Yan's translations are gorgeous. This book is inspired by the arcade in Dublin, Walter Benjamin and of course Charles Baudelaire.

THE ENEMY ( 2015)

My first work of translation. Although, I use the term transversion. I intend transversing Les Fleurs du Mal in its entirety. But it's a life project, I'm not in any rush. This is just the first installment. English speaking people, on the whole, have no idea how much CB has influenced not only their literature but also their whole world.

Residency at Loughshinny Boathouse

Fingal Arts
PalmArtPress, Berlin
Levure Litteraire

Other Writers & Publications

Abridged 29 primal
Agenda supplement
Anamaria Crowe Serrano/ poet-translator -novelist
A New Ulster
Daniel Wade / Author
Danse Macabre - poems from Divertimento - The Muse is a Dominatrix
Flare
The Galway Review - 3 poems from Divertimento - The Muse is a Dominatrix ( out of print)
Michael J. Whelan Poet/Historian
Nina Kossman - Poet/ Novelist/Translator/Artist
One - Jacar Press
The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology - poem from The Dark Pool
Poethead - Christine Murray
The Ragged Lion Journal
SurVision issue 6 - Innana
Yan Kouton - poet/ translator

A SAMPLE OF SOME WORK

Home
The Eroica Variations - Short film Ragged Lion Press
The Execution of Orpheus - short film Scum Gentry
Review of The Dark Pool
3 from Divertimento The Muse is a Dominatrix
In the Fields of Ephesus
4 from Henry Street with Translations into French by Yan Kouton
Commuting with Baudelaire
Une Charogne by Baudelaire - Article with Transversion
Donkey Shots & The Gladstone Readings
6 from Domestic Gods
Pranzo a Tunaria per Laura
L'HOMME ET LA MERDE - environmentalism
Flare 15 Le Poison / Transversion

MORE MICKS THAN DICKS

Amazon
Gare Saint Lazare Ireland & How It Is
How It Is Symposium, Paris, 2018
Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland, 2013
Review of More Micks by Marc Di Saverio

BAUDELAIRE AT 200!

Click on Image to Enter Link

LAPWING BOOK PUBLICATIONS : SKER, THE ENEMY & THE ELM TREE

Lapwing Publications
Review of The Elm Tree by Christine Murray

Followers

HENRY STREET ARCADE BILINGUAL COLLECTION/COLLECTION BILINGUE WITH TRANSLATIONS INTO FRENCH

Editions du Pont de l'Europe
Les Cosaques des Frontieres
Review of Henry Street Arcade by Daniel Wade
Review by Anamaria Crowe Serrano

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Peter O' Neill: Peter O’Neill is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Henry Street Arcade a bilingual edition, his first, with translations into French by Yan Kouton published by Éditions du Pont de l’Europe, 2021. He has also published a book of translations The Enemy -Transversions from Charles Baudelaire ( Lapwing, 2015) and the hybrid prose work More Micks than Dicks – a satirical dig at the current world of Beckett studies ( Famous Seamus, 2017). He has just finished curating Baudelaire 200 Years! an online festival for the Alliance Francaise and is currently working on a number of projects. Coming from an academic background in philosophy and comparative literature, Peter O'Neill has taught as a TESOL for almost 20 years, and predominantly in the city of Dublin. He has held posts in both tertiary and post-primary levels, and for the last number of years he has been primarily engaged with preparing students for their IELTS or Trinity ( London ) exams. He also works as a Teacher Trainer for Europass programs and is currently engaged in designing a number of educational courses primarily aimed at Teachers.

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