REFLECTIONS ON RICHARD WILBUR’S INTERVIEW Everyone seems to be able to write a poem nowadays. Everyone can arm themselves with a pen and let their feelings flow on a piece of paper, creating random separate verses, pretending to have the aspect of a poem. And the culprit of all this seems to be an excessive use...
GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI AND THE ITALIAN HERMETICISM The term “hermeticism” refers to a particular poetic movement born in Italy at the end of the First World War. It deals with the idea of a poetry whose character is hermetically closed and complex, in order to represent the feeling of the post-war. With the Hermeticism, the poetic...
Two enterprising Italian girls have turned the limerick verse into a marketing ploy for their bookshop in Padua. What is the first thing which comes to mind when you hear the word “limerick”? Perhaps the city you live in, perhaps the short and witty poem. The limerick is a particular kind of poem, made up...
A REFLECTION ON NATURAL TALENT BY HANS TUZZI There is no writer without talent.” This is what Hans Tuzzi, an Italian writer and critic, affirms in his latest book How to write a crime novel…or any other novel. His essay is not a series of lectures on “how to write”, but a reflection on the power...
Literature doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It must be read, discussed, and celebrated. There’s nothing better than gushing with a friend over a new favourite novel, or sharing a beautiful verse of poetry with family. With the movement towards digital media consumption, it is difficult to find a space where literature continues to be discussed...
International Limerick Poetry Competition The Limerick Writers’ Centre, and Dolans Music Venue combine to bring you the annual Bring Your Limericks to Limerick International Poetry Competition. This years event takes place Sat 17th Aug 2019 at Dolans Music Venue, Dock Rd., Limerick. To enter this years competition see our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/limerickcompetition/
THE Acoustic Club continues to attract a large crowd of musicians, songwriters and fans every Tuesday to Charlie Malone’s Bar, Wolfe Tone Street. From 9.00 pm till late! The open mic session welcomes special guest singer/ songwriter Dwana 14th May 2019. The Acoustic Club at Charlie Malone’s Bar, Wolfe Tone St., Limerick Presents Tues 14th...
The Poetry Circle, a new series brought to you by the Limerick Writers’ Centre. This series is called The Poetry Circle in honour of the Great Limerick Poet, Desmond O Grady, who first formed and read his work at a reading, also called The Poetry Circle, in 1954 at the White House Bar on O...
The book will be launched by Eugene Phelan, Editor of the Limerick Leader Gabriel’s Lark is a dramatic and, more often than not, humorous novel about travel, independence, the struggle to find employment, and the dedication to family life. Its narrative weaves its way from the Ireland of the 1970s and ’80s, across continental Europe...
This course covers key aspects of fiction writing – point of view, characterisation, plot, dialogue, story-process, pace and the art of storytelling
