Happy birthday to the sorely missed Niall McDevitt.
Here is a snippet from LONDON NATION, available now at https://t.co/wFLW363Xaq
With love,
New River Press
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For the May/June issue of @idler I wrote about Mark Hyatt's extraordinary novel Love, Leda (recently discovered by @PressPeninsula), and the final collection by the poet and Blakean spirit Niall McDevitt, published by @newriverpress.
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'Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'
Dylan Thomas, Welsh Modernist poet, author, filmmaker, socialist, and opponent of war, died #onthisday in 1953 at the age of 39.
Niall McDevitt was a great poet, Londoner and Irishman. A regular contributor to #BrightSideOfTheRoad so this month we pay tribute to Niall with a host of performances by him & the stellar line up of poets who graced the stage at his wake. 12.00 Sunday https://t.co/M8Gszj60t0
'What rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem?'
@NMcDevitt + Sé Merry Doyle tell the tale of the repelling by WB Yeats (with help from a pugilist) of Aleister Crowley's assault on 36 Blythe Road W14 dressed in Highland battle regalia and an Osiris mask...
https://t.co/CF1jfGFjTY
In this hands-on poetopographical investigation I try and suggest the powerful influence living on the River Tyburn had on Blake's writing and imagination from late 1803.
Thanks for sharing, TLM.
Love this from @MirandaGoldWri1 'A reader suggested to me that the characters in my second novel, A Small Dark Quiet, don’t remember, they re-live: the past ruptures the present' https://t.co/VevXgfWIJ5