Elizabeth Campbell
Elizabeth Campbell, reading new and published work at Belfast Central Library, over the racket of the air-conditioning, but clear enough for my mic if not my ears.
Notice that I am experimenting with Divshare, the embedding system is a lot easier than with podcastpeople.com, the site I have stored most previous audio on.
Moochin
Posted by Malachi in Interviews, photography on July 24th, 2010
John Baucher is Moochin Photoman. He has just been exhibiting hundreds of portraits of Belfast people at the Waterfront Hall, pictures taken with a technique which involves using one camera through the viewfinder of another.
He staged a big giveaway of images at the close of his exhibition and I asked him to explain to me the thinking behind his approach.
Helen Madden – prizewinner
Posted by Malachi in Interviews, Reflections on July 7th, 2010
Helen Madden, broadcaster and actor has just become the first writer to win the GQ Norman Mailer Fellowship; and she did it while studying for a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at Queens University Belfast.
The hubbub in the background is her friends drinking champagne to mark her prize and graduation, which neatly coincide.
Miriam Gamble
Posted by Malachi in Poets, Readings, Uncategorized on June 3rd, 2010
At a reading in No Alibis Bookshop in Belfast on June 3, Miriam Gamble read from her first collection The Squirrels Are Dead.
Her introduction acknowledges the inspiration of Sinead Morrissey.
Nervous Flyer – Grainne Tobin
County Down poet Grainne Tobin read from her new collection The Nervous Flyer’s Companion at the Down Arts Centre as part of a sequence of readings organised by Write Down!
The Badness of Killy – sorry Bally – dog
Novelist Garrett Carr is writing a trilogy for teenagers. The first in the series, The Badness of Ballydog, describes a town in which there is no morality and which faces horrific danger.
Garrett is from Donegal and to someone who knows the area, Ballydog bears a striking resemblance the fishing port of Killybegs.
What prompted Garrett to write for young people?
The Job Interview
Posted by Malachi in Drama, Interviews on March 30th, 2010
The Belfast actor Derek Halligan says you can’t always pitch it right for a job interview.
Muldoon on the IRA and on the Church
Posted by Malachi in Interviews, Poets on March 30th, 2010
At the superb Poetry Now Festival in Dun Laoghaire last week, Paul Muldoon was challenged by a heckler to give his opinion on the Provisional IRA. I recorded his answer. That’s the first clip.
Muldoon went on to do a very strange presentation in which he first reflected on the use of fish images in sexually themed Irish poems and then delivered an account of how his sister had been sexually exploited by a catholic priest. From there he called on the Irish government to stand up to the bishops and announce that the days of Canon Law in Ireland were over.
I interviewed him afterwards for the Sunday Sequence programme. That interview was broadcast in reduced form, as these always are, but here is the full exchange.
Sheena Wilkinson
The novelist Sheena Wilkinson read from her forthcoming book Taking Flight, at a Write! Down reading session in the Downpatrick Arts Centre on Sunday February 28.
Dan Eggs
Posted by Malachi in Uncategorized on February 27th, 2010
Here Dan Eggs recites his tribute to his deceased friend Mairtin Crawford. There is another poem below, by Martin Mooney – cited in Dan’s – which remembers Mairtin too.
