Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Beers & Books CCLXXXIX – The Road to Brightcity

Nine stories, translated by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc,
in 1981 made accessible for the first time
to an English speaking readership
exquisite masterpieces of Ó Cadhain's writings.

 

Máirtín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) 

Monday, February 06, 2023

Mo(o)nday Poetry

Colmena
iVivimos en celdas
de cristal,
en colmena de aire!
Nos besamos a través
de cristal.
iMaravillosa cárcel,
cuya puerta
es la luna!
- - -
Beehive
We live in cells
of crystal
in a beehive of air!
We are kissing each other
through crystal.*
Wonderful prison,
the door of which
is the moon!
* cristal: glass, crystal, water (poetical)

Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936)

Sunday, February 05, 2023

Thursday, February 02, 2023

Our Civilisation

"Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence."
James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Beers & Books CCLXXXVI – Diary of a Bookseller

Thursday, 24 April
An elderly customer told me
that her book club's next book was Dracula,
but she could not remember what he'd written.
 


Saturday, January 28, 2023