Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
Fred Johnston is an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and musician. He is the founder and current director of the Western Writers' Centre in Galway. He co-founded the Irish Writers' Co-operative in 1974, and founded Galway's annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature in 1986. His Recent work has appeared in The Spectator, The New Statesman,… 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
Fred Johnston (born 1951) is an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and musician. He is the founder and current director of the Western Writers’ Centre in Galway.
Scoop.it!
So what is a poetic moment to you? I am assuming that you are a poet, though you may not be. The question is tantamount to asking what provides your inspiration. But it's more than that, too. Is there an incident in your life which made you more aware that you could see things in a poetic way? Or that you had what I'll call a poetic responsibility?
Scoop.it!
Fred Johnston has such a long writing CV, I can only summarise it here. He was born and educated in Belfast. He has lived in Toronto, Canada, Spain and Africa. 'Orangeman', a collection of stories in French, translated by film-maker and writer and good friend, Christian le Braz, appeared from Terre de Brume (France) in October 2010 and has just published a second volume of short stories, 'Dancing In The Asylum,' from Parthian Books (UK) Among his poetry achievements are Founder of Galway's annual international literature festival, CÚIRT, in 1986. Writer-in-Residence to the Princess Grace Irish Library at Monaco, 2004. He is the Founder of the Western Writers’ Centre – Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude – based in Galway
|
Scoop.it!
Fred Johnston (born 1951) is an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and musician. He is the founder and current director of the Western Writers' Centre in Galway. He co-founded the Irish Writers'...
Scoop.it!
Deeley’s two-souled poetry inhabits a blunt lyricism By Fred Johnston GROUNDSWELL – New and Selected Poems. Patrick Deeley. Dedalus Press, Pbck. ISBN 978-1-906614-73-7 226pp Patrick Deeley, born in...
Scoop.it!
|
