The Solitary Golfer, nthposition, March 2012
From about 2010 I began to submit my stories to various publications with mixed results. Around the same time I discovered duotrope.com and how accessible the world of literary publications…
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The Jumping Church of Ardee, Co Louth.
This is a video I took a few years back of the “Jumping Church” of Kildemock, near Ardee, Co Louth. Rather embarrassingly, part two never appeared. Not far…
“The Gap in The Curtain”, John Buchan
Inspired by this post on The Dabbler , I purchased the slightly incongruously named Sir Edward Leithen Megapack a while back. I was using the comments section of the same Dabbler post to update an…
David Szalay’s “The Innocent” and Andrei Makhine’s “Brief Loves That Live Forever”
While Makine is Russian-born (writing in French) and Szalay is Canadian-born, these two works have much in common. Short, but genuinely epic in scope, showing how individual lives were shaped by…
LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798
Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur.–Once again Do…
Edge. Thomas Blackthorne. Sf Site. 2010.
My recent disinterrment of some of my posts on OneTouchFootball.com included this nil thread about blades, which included a now-dead link to a site on all things blade. Revisiting SF Site reviews, I find…
Review of “Pink Noise”, Leonid Korogoski, SF Site, 2011
This was a stimulating read. To a certain degree, something not unlike what I internally call The Oxford Murders Effect was at play in this review – the context of when I read…
One Touch Football – A Retrospective
Finding my piece on Glasgow Celtic unexpectedly archived on One Touch Football has set me thinking about my time on that forum. A little Googling this evening has revealed lots more of my musings…
Séamus Sweeney 