Top 102 Albums, No. Minus 18 - No Such Place No Such Place - Jim White In the early 21st Century this was the album that dominated my l...

Top 102 Albums, No. Minus 17 Teens of Denial - Car Seat Headrest " I am freaking out in my mind /  In a house that isn't mine M...

Live Tonight! The Re-Animation of The Knocking Shop continues. The Knocking Shop are supporting the rather wonderful Mik Artistik's Eg...

Books Read 2016 - Part One 2016, despite being a bitch of a year for heroes and an ominous year for politics, has been a pretty good yea...

Rossmore Road - Barry Andrews " White and yellow lines and street signs " A love song to a song.

LIVE!! TONIGHT!! This blog and the blogosphere in general has suffered some neglect recently as all my focus has been on tonight's gig...

The Grand Social The Knocking Shop to hit the Dublin Stage! The revival of The Knocking Shop hits a high point with our return to th...

The Literary Conference  (translated by Katherine Silver) & An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter  (translated by Chris Andre...

Top 102 Albums, No Minus 16 Suicide - Suicide " Frankie put the gun to his head (Inarticulate visceral howling of demons) Frank...

Tres - Roberto Bolaño Translated by Laura Healy Tres is a collection of three poems by Bolaño, although two could just as easily be ...

But For the Lovers - Wilrido D. Nolledo (Foreword by Robert Coover) "You never actually bury a volcano. There's always a resu...

August 1914 - Barbara Tuchman " When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one single dominant one transcendi...

A Weekend With Claude - Beryl Bainbridge (I read the revised 1981 issue of what was her first published novel.  The dust jacket describ...

Another Mix of my Favourite Songs The last time I tried to put together a list of Favourite Songs it got out of control - One ; Two ; Thre...

Signs Preceding The End of The World Yuri Herrera (Translated by Lisa Dillman) " The place was like a sleepwalker's bedroom: ...

Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard (translated by David McLintock) " For twenty years I had not wanted to know anything about the Aug...

COW AND CALF, 1969. Louis le Brocquy  Why I No Longer Write Poetry I live for nonsense and die by the truth Pulling my ego Out by t...

Faces and Masks ; Century of the Wind - Eduardo Galeano (Part 2 & 3 of the Memory of Fire trilogy.) " History, the pink-v...

Car I've had this story knocking around in my head since a friend told me the bones of it one night in a pub. He was great storytell...

Favourite Songs, Part Four This is the final part of my long, long shortlist of 'Favourite Songs'. This part includes the songs fr...