Launch 001.1 Berlin

Public welfare stuffed full of cultural nourishment

Everything is moving forward. I've gotten Charlie Stadtlander's crossword in my inbox and I'm like a fucking kid at christmas. The Kakofonie is proving the highlight of the summer already. Then there's Ann Cotten's text Verschwörung und Verwechslung translated wonderfully by Joy Hawley,  and my head is spinning. I'm thinking, this is the shit, this is fucking wonderful. You Are Here has received three of its contributions in the last three days and I'm very excited about them, the whole thing is coming together and beginning to show that it's really going to say something. Roll on November 9!

THe Kakafonie is Coming Soon

Andrea Bedorin (IT) / Andrea DeAngelis (US) / John Lalor (IRE & FR) / Patrick O Beirne (GER) / Luke Sheehan (IRE) / Charlie Stadtlander (US) / Simon Stranger & Susanne Krövel (NOR) / Pia (NOR) / Christian Ward (UK) / Karl Whitney (IRE) 

http://www.brokendimanche.eu/kakofonie

Holten Activity in the Bronx, NY, USA.

Read full article here, maybe if they don't ask for money.

Check out the TREE MUSUEM HERE.

La Porte Russe Remix

Je vous jure que je fais pas 'un Beckett' - au contraire! PlutOt, quand Alan Cunningham m'a demandé pour une piéce sur la theme 'context is everything' pour la revue Issue, je me suis dis que la langue, aprés tout, n'est que une liste du signes dans une contexte. Mon nouvelle de 2006 The Russian Door a eu une section en anglias mais le narratrice etait francais. Ici, j'ai essayé de traduire cette section.  

je dois remercier Alan et aussi Perig LeOst pour son correction. Comme vous voyez - mon francais est terrible!

Extracts from chapbook at The Cadavarine Magazine

Read them here.

Short Story

Short story up over on greenbeardmagazine, featuring a return of William Day.

East of Eden Lesung May 12, 21:00Uhr

Bosco stealing prizes because he's a nice old man

I'm very happy that my friend Andrew Fox is continuing his onward march into the overgrown territory of Irish short storydom by infiltrating that nettly corner known as the Francis Mac Manus short story comp  (last year they gave it to Bosco giving rise to calls of nepotism and dodgy puppetry) Here's the list press release.

Am busy busy setting up Broken Dimanche Press. Send me words and images and I'd be happy to put them up at The Kakofonie.

So far Andrea Bedorin, an Italian poet has two storming modernist pieces up there. More forwardlooking shit soon.

DAP

Two poems are up at 3AM. You can read them here. 

In other news the whole Broken Dimanche thing is going well. We have web presence here.

Soon I'm going to stop using a blog warning: I'm going to stop this crap soon.

New Ireland or Old Ireland

Easter Sunday in one newspaper in Ireland.

(Article by Luke Sheehan on cultism and madness)

....this Garden of Wandering

Just finished The Radicant by Nicolas Bourriaud last night, after it followed me around for over a month. I lost a lot of its threads during those weeks so am looking forward to going over it again and maybe writing up a review of it. Very interesting thoughts on translation and a new culture of travel and precariousness - but saying that any hope of writing up a grand narrative is suspect, as Bourriaud himself iterates throughout. It doesn't help that everything I read on his Tate Triennial show was negative. Something else to look into.

Very busy setting up a new venture out of Parking Meter Press - namely Broken Dimanche Press. Suddenly we have resources and lot of projects on the go, as well as a whole load of ideas and future plans. Will update on that as it comes along.

Julian Gough Reading

Went to Kaffee Burger last night for the first time ever. I got to hear  Berlin resident Julian Gough read. He was even kind enough to offer to get me in gratis, a good soul indeed. He's interesting because he is one of very few Irish novelists doing something interesting and decidedly non-John MacGahern. Cervantes and Ballard were both mentioned in the course of the reading, in positive ways, so that means it had to be good.

Afterwards I had to rush off and have drinks with friends. Realising just how far away Australia is and what a shame distance is sometimes.

Short Winner in Symmetry of Flaws

Just found out today that my short on William Day Tunnels of Profit (Bridges of Loss) has won The Symmetry of Flaws competition over on greenbeard. Nice surprise.

Work going well on daDa project too. Don't have enough money to travel to Serbia, Bosnia or Budapest which is a setback however. Need to win a lot more prizes I guess.

Sektzeit.