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Sean McNulty
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By The River Where I Often Walk Angrily
By the river where I often walk angrily Birds lined up on the spokes of an old bicycle wheel Have to me the cunning of co-workers on the first day...
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Winner Of The National Confession Award, 1990
--Dere wus a war. And I wus slam-bang in de middle of it. Wartime is mad, ye know. People get hurt. I never bin at war before. Not dat kind of action...
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Hold On To Your Hamsters
Ending a Story Cycle
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You Wouldn't Call It An Earthquake Exactly
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Make Sure All The Frogs Get Home
We used to go fishing fur mullet and pinkeens in de Castletown River. Dat’s all ye’d get in dere normally. But I never caught annyting ever cause I...
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Very good good-humoured
Posted on Thu, 04 May 2017
Very good good-humoured writing. I love the title too.
Read full commentPosted in Learning to Misunderstand Sex
Very meta. Might make a nice
Posted on Sun, 09 Apr 2017
Very meta. Might make a nice Charlie Kaufman film.
Read full commentPosted in Fiction is the New Truth
Crisp and inventive. Like
Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016
Crisp and inventive. Like the best sci-fi/fantasy, a literature of ideas. And well-written. Enjoyed this part very much.
Read full commentPosted in History Of The Creadds (Ch.13d)
Enjoyable. Took me back to
Posted on Mon, 05 Dec 2016
Enjoyable. Took me back to my own childhood of ninjas in the killing fields. I had my own group of ninjas which I led during the 1980's in the Northeast of Ireland. They called me Fagin.
Maybe this line has a little typo. 'I creep...
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Great stuff, Elsie. Love all
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
Great stuff, Elsie. Love all the musical refs.
Read full commentPosted in Autobiography - To Revolution Singing
A lovely poem. Very moving,
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
A lovely poem. Very moving, and a tangible grief. Though you make it so beautiful, and I want to read again and again.
Read full commentPosted in Blue
Places show off their real
Posted on Mon, 31 Oct 2016
Places show off their real magic with the passage of time. I'm not surprised you earned a few bob from this. You made the place come alive. The new footnotes add even more life to it.
Read full commentPosted in A Tour of My Neighbourhood
Lovely snapshot of a time and
Posted on Mon, 31 Oct 2016
Lovely snapshot of a time and a place.
Read full commentPosted in A Tour of My Neighbourhood
This is quite beautiful. It
Posted on Fri, 16 Jan 2015
This is quite beautiful. It's like something Yeats would have written. Ethereal, and in love with the musicality of language.
Read full commentPosted in Bubble-blow, Thistledown and Candyfloss
Using the music of the
Posted on Sat, 29 Nov 2014
Using the music of the Specials was inspired. It turns the atmosphere of the library into something else, at once down-to-earth, then rising well above it. The Concrete Library. Books are after me, it ain't safe on the streets. Loved it.
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