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Posted on May 4, 2017May 4, 2017

“become adept at letting things go” First Known When Lost: Milosz, Derek Mahon and Taigi on the passing time

From here at the wonderful blog First Known When Lost. As well as bringing to our attention much outstanding poetry that has the great merit of being unfashionable or forgotten, Stephen Pentz…

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Posted on April 12, 2017April 12, 2017

Gola: The Life and Last Days of an Island Community

Recently I read this book, published in 1969 by Radio Telifis Eireann, on Gola Island. Gola is a mile from Magheragallon Strand in Gweedore, three miles from Bunbeg harbour. When…

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Posted on February 10, 2017

From “LA*HWI*NE*SKI: Career of an Eccentric Naturalist” by John Jeremiah Sullivan

That’s what’s so terrifying but also heroic in Rafinesque, to know he could see that far, function at that outer-orbital a level intellectually, yet still wind up viciously hobbled by…

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