Art, media, opinion and ideas
There, that got your attention, didn't it?My recent reading, The Redress of Poetry, a collection of Seamus Heaney's lectures delivered while Professor of Poetry at Oxford includes a stirring treatment of Brian Merriman's "An Chúirt Meánoíche".
For people looking for an introduction to one of the most pernicious aspects of Data Retention, The Midnight Court has posted what it promises will be the introduction to a series of essays on the consequences of Data Retention in law.
Al Alvarez’s slim volume The Writer's Voice is a book I’d highly recommend to anyone who’s ever spent any time thinking about writing as a craft. In it he considers the nature of an artistic “voice??? which he distinguishes, correctly in my view, from “style???. Style is often artificial and brittle, and can easily degenerate into mannerism.
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