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Turtle by Gerard Beirne (Oberon Press) Gerard Berne's novel, Turtle, takes the theme of history repeating itself and puts it into a surreal spin. Turtle is written in tight, poetic prose within a verse-like structure. By the end of the first few pages, the rhythm of the prose had infiltrated my mind and produced a steady, comforting beat underneath the sprawling story of the town named, Turtle. 
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A Writer Takes It Slow I knew I could write, but I also knew I didn't know how to rewrite. So I joined a small writers group in St Paul's in Bristol. The truth is, I walked up to the door and walked away again, eventually plucked up the courage and went back. There were three other people in the room (one of them Andrew Miller who has since been short listed for the Booker Prize and won the IMPAC Award amongst others)
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Meditation #27 Curtain Call It’s curtain call and the audience has long since departed/strike whatever pose you wish/the applause you meet is silence/perhaps they are waiting in the cellarage a...
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Blackmail Press 32 New Zealand Poets New Zealand Poetry... Vision of the Underworld I What I detest is feces, and I will not eat it It will not come near my fingers I will live on loaves of white emmer
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The Song of the Resurrectionists
We hoist our sacks upon our shoulders and waken the creatures from their last sleep, crossing ourselves and muttering paternosters while dropping our bags on the other side. where the cinder-gatherers gather dust beneath us in the tan-yard of the night
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Sightings of Bono: Gerard Beirne: Amazon.com: Kindle Store...
Sightings of Bono is a cult short story written by Irish writer Gerard Beirne. It tells the tale of a girl who sees Bono everywhere and becomes obsessed with her sightings writing them all down in a diary until they start to threaten her daily existence. In 2002 it was adapted for film (Parallel Productions, Dublin), Sightings of Bono, directed by Patrick Kavanagh and featuring Bono acting as himself. It was released as a bonus DVD on the album Greatest Irish Bands (Celtic Collections, 2004).
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Even if Gerard Beirne was not one of our own, I would not hesitate to give The Eskimo in the Net two thumbs up, but since he is a Beirne, he also gets two snaps in a circle.
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by Gerard Beirne. Published January 1st, 2012 ... Gerard Beirne is an Irish writer now living in Canada. His most recent collection of poetry Games of Chance: A Gambler's Manual was published by Oberon Press, Fall 2011.
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A well-structured workshop will promote a greater understanding of the craft of writing and will aid a writer to develop necessary critical skills.
Writers' Workshops — Damage Control By Gerard Beirne I have written before how writers' workshops are in reality practice sessions for self-critiquing and as such may be of little benefit to the piece of writing being practiced upon. Indeed I stated that the piece may even be damaged in the process. Well take heart, a good facilitator / instructor is also well skilled in damage control. The downside? It's not easy to find a good facilitator / instruct
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A widow, an Irish wanderer, a house built on a fault line and a mysterious light form the essential furniture of Gerard Beirne’s fine new story “Fault Lines.” Beirne is an Irish writer and you can hear the fierce rhetoric of the Irish in his opening cadences, the insistent lists and parallel constructions. The story is dark, almost noir in its atmosphere of eroticism and constant menace.
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One of the most prominent Irish transplants now dwelling in Atlantic Canada, Gerard Beirne was quick to root himself here, and foster its writing community.
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Gerard Beirne’s previous collection of poems, Digging My Own Grave, rooted themselves in the landscape exploring the inherent tensions between spirituality and physicality. A Man in Diapers continues this vast exploration but roots itself this time in fatherhood – what it means to be a father of children in a physically demanding world. With humour and sincerity he imagines also the burden of being the Son of God in an all too human existence. Beirne’s vision is both powerful and unique leading readers on a profound and richly rewarding journey
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Vision of the Dead Land
Here in the dead land, the claw land, the taxis of Saigon, the bicycles and traffic, a birthday cake with paper palm trees and cardboard huts, little plastic helicopters and soldiers, plastic boats and flags. Tomatoes, spaghetti, garlic, olive oil, a mop, a frying pan, kitchen towels, and trash-bags. Shrunken heads and penises, severed hands, corpses pierced with shrapnel.
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Literature in New Brunswick. This clip is part of the "I am art" / « L'art c'est moi » social media campaign conducted by artsnb in 2012 to raise public awareness of 8 major arts disciplines. Featured literary artists: Antonine Maillet, Anne Compton, Beth Powning, Lynn Davies, David Adams Richards, Édith Bourget, John Barlow, K.V. Johansen, Dominique Breau, Nela Rio, Dominic Langlois, Gerard Beirne, Shirley Bear, Herménégilde Chiasson, Wayne Curtis.
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Canadian poetry, alternative, avant garde, abstract, surreal, non-linear, experimental, innovative.
Extract from Introduction to Mathematical Logic
7. Biconditional Statements
for every conditional statement
rehearse:
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