Thrilled to take delivery of our new Gorse Editions title, New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham. Readers will be familiar with Alan's work from his pieces in the journal & on our website. Pre-order details to follow. Cover art: Niall McCormack. With thanks to @artscouncilireland.
One of the most moving things I read about Han Kang was how she dragged a cloth through a Norwegian forest before wrapping it around her unseen book, locked away for 95 years.
She described it as a wedding of her manuscript with the forest or a lullaby for a century-long sleep
BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
My practice is mostly concerned with the many ways in which we house ourselves. Upcoming work New Green Fool is a creative expression of this concern.
A more theoretical work is this piece, Otherworldly Properties, pub. by Law Critique Journal :
link.springer.com/article/10…
Mr Bloom turned his largelidded eyes with unhasty friendliness.
—My wife too, he said. She’s going to sing at a swagger affair in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, on the twentyfifth.
—That so? M’Coy said. Glad to hear that, old man. Who’s getting it up?