A new collection of essays written by Nual O’Faolain, edited and selected by Tony Glavin and featuring an introduction by Fintan O’Toole has been published by New Island.
A More Complex Truth: Selected Writings was launched on World Women’s Day at the Dublin Book Festival and comes nearly two years after the journalist and memoirist death
The book is published in paperback at €15.99.
The Irish Book Awards has signed a new headline sponsor with Irish semi-state company, Bord Gáis Energy. The company is to sponsor the event for three years starting in 2010.
The Awards will now take place in November and submissions are open until the closing date of 30th September 2010.
As part of the deal Bord Gáis Energy will launch a nationwide reading promotion in April 2010.
Speaking on the first day of the Dublin Book Festival at the Séamus Brennan Memorial Seminar on Irish Publishing, Editor of the Irish Pages journal, Irish-American poet Chris Agee, said that Irish Pages was the equal of any journal on the international scene, proclaiming, ‘we are not second fiddle to Granta’.
Speaking about how Irish Pages saw itself and its position in the world of literature, Agee, who was short-listed last week for the Ted Hughes Award, admitted to some problems saying ‘over the last 8 years that we’ve been doing this journal there is considerable resistance within Britain to be being treated as equal. They just assume in London that anything in Belfast is a backwater, ipso facto anything in Ireland cannot rival the TLS or the LRB.’
But Agree said that he and his colleagues at Irish Pages rejected this, ‘basically our project is to say no, we are not second fiddle and a lot of English and British writers, who we publish, about a quarter of our publication is from Britain, are seeing that because we are very different.’
Agee compared the identity and brand of Irish Pages to illy coffee, ‘I would say illy is the model. Yes it is Italian, yes it comes from a small family firm in Trieste, and Trieste is a small provincial Italian city, but it competes with everything else on its own terms, not because it’s Italian and we’re competing because of the writing, because of the interest not because it’s Irish.’
Agee was speaking on a panel with Clodagh Feehan of Mercier Press and Lisa Hyde of Irish Academic Press, the panel was chaired by Jean Harrington of Maverick House. Discussion title for the seminar was: Irish Literary and Cultural Publishing: Obstacles and Opportunities
Chris Agee, poet and editor of Irish Literary Journal Irish Pages, has been nominated for the Ted Hughes Award for his recent work Next To Nothing.
The award, which carries a £5,000 prize, was set up by the UK poet lurateCarol Ann Duffy in 2009 and financed from the annual stipend of £5,750 she receives as poet laureate. The aim of the award is to promote new works in poetry.
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