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In The Irish Times this Saturday, Caoilinn Hughes talks to Niamh Donnelly about her excellent new novel, The Alternatives. Fiona Gartland talks to Jo Spain about her later thriller, The Trial. Hugh Linehan reflects on the film adaptation of John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun. Debbie Hines, author of Get Off My Neck, lays bare for Keith Duggan the startling inequalities faced by black Americans in the US justice system.
Also shortlisted were Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad; A Flat Place by Noreen Masud; No Man’s Land by David Nash; Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman; and Cuddy by Benjamin Myers. YES will culminate in Molly Bloomsday, an epic 18-hour finale of events taking festivalgoers from the coast to the city and transposing the famed Dublin locations ofto new places north of the Border. A highlight of the day will be a special performance by Imelda May. YES is the culmination of the two-year ULYSSES European Odyssey project, which has seen celebrations of Joyce’s masterpiece across 16 European countries.
The festival’s poetry programme features celebrated US poet Marie Howe; and Belfast’s Dawn Watson and Scott McKendry; and there’s a special live edition of RTÉ Sunday Miscellany with new writing from a line-up that includes Jan Carson and Glenn Patterson. This is festival director, Joe Woods’ third year programming Ireland’s oldest poetry festival and it promises to be a characteristic blend of diverse, local, national and international poets reading; bilingual readings, workshops, multiple poetry book launches, poetry-film screenings and collaborations with musicians.
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