From “Correction”, Thomas Bernhard (trans. Sarah Wilkins)
What a terrible situation I’ve let myself in for by accepting Hoeller’s invitation and moving into Hoeller’s garret, I thought. I looked down at Hoeller’s workshop windows and I thought,…
Author: Séamus Sweeney
From “The Dud Avocado”, by Elaine Dundy. (pages 61-2)
The night before we went into rehearsal, I was determined to get to bed early. When I got into my bath, I was singing. Gradually, deliciously, I could feel myself…
Taking stock a month in
The sister blog of this one – A Medical Education – has become something different to what I originally intended. As well as an archive and gathering place for my more purely…
Adding Value To Writing. Nthposition. January 2009.
The original is here . In retrospect, this piece was really about stringing three of my favourite quotes about writing into a piece. “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” ADDING…
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees, Alberto Manguel. Nthposition. Early 2005.
The original link is currently broken . I re-read this book this morning. My reading speed may have increased – I read it between Kilkenny and Athy on the train. To tell…
A haunting. Nthposition. September 2007
A poem! I have written poetry. One poem even got accepted. By a publication which promptly ceased to exist. I haven’t written poetry in quite a while. I would aspire to…
“Dublin Can Be Heaven”, Alt Hist. December 2011
This is my first fiction piece published outside of nthposition.com. I gave the background to the piece in an interview with Alt Hist’s editor Mark Lord you can read here . The…
A Theatre of Pure Stichomythia: Twitter and the Tragic. Nthposition, June 2011
Four years on and I tweet sporadically . I despise the perpetual hype machine that is social media, the endless churning of self-righteousness and cheap enthusiasm. I also tend to get caught…
Séamus Sweeney 