Writers

The First Launch!

Karen J McDonnell

… and YOU are invited!

It’s countdown to Saturday, when my new poetry collection TIDAL will be launched in Ennis at the DeValera Library. 

The writer Kate Ennals is doing the necessary – thanks for the taking on the job, Kate! You can find out more about Kate’s work by clicking here.

If you can’t get to Ennis, I’ll be having a joint launch in Dublin next month with Paul Perry – whose new collection is also published by Doire Press. I’ll post more info closer to the date.

In the meantime, here’s a link to the book at the Doire Press website, and you can always buy TIDAL, or order it, at your local independent bookshop … because that’s what nice independent bookshops do!

I hope to see some of you in Ennis.  

Thanks for your support. We’d be nothing without our readers.

Another Month, Another Adventure!

Karen J McDonnell

I’m looking forward to meeting up with friends and connecting with writers this weekend, at the Wexford Literary Festival.

I’ll be reading from my collection This Little World in one of the New Voices slots on Saturday afternoon, at the Riverside Hotel in Enniscorthy.

There are some fab events, for readers and writers alike.  You can check out the whole programme by clicking here.

The trip ‘East’ is also giving me a chance to stay with a dear friend. So, after ‘work’ there’ll be time for a nice meal, drinkies, and a catch-up!

Books, poetry, writing, and friends.

What more could a gal ask for?

 

Civil Protest in Hungary

Karen J McDonnell

There are so many troubles in the world and so many loud voices of state trying to muffle, or murder, legitimate protest.

Protest in Budapest 12 April 2017. Photo by Zoltan Balogh (MTI via AP) From Washington Post site.

In parts of eastern Europe, the Right has been gaining steadily; especially in Hungary. This is disturbing, and also sad when we consider that the permitted movement of other nationalities through Hungary helped to contribute to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now Orban’s Hungary is shutting down dissent, borders, and institutions dedicated to independent thinking.

The EU must act decisively. NOW.

I’m glad to be a signatory of this letter of protest along with many others:

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guardian/20170413/281887298173789

Many thanks to poet George Szirtes for organising this letter, and for his consistent commitment to highlighting events taking place in the land of his birth. Köszönöm, George.