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If you’re brought up an Irish Catholic and attempt what used to be called ‘art’ but now seems diluted to ‘creativity’ it’s probably inevitable that a religious element creeps in somewhere even if you no … Read More

 “… All I did was I took them out of ‘exotica’ and I made them the neighbors … I thought there’s nothing scarier than the neighbors!” You might think that zombies have very little to … Read More

I thought you might be interested in the rational behind our forthcoming Pestilence trilogy. This year’s Abridged issues are a kind of sequel to our Mara edition and also furthers the 1979 project useing Revelation (amongst … Read More

I’ve always had an interest in the history of exhibition curation, display/installation and design. This was written a few years ago and became a part of the PhD I was doing at the time. It’s … Read More

I have been meaning to write about our ‘influences’ if people still use that terminology. When myself and Joe Duggan started the Chancer magazine we did it as a reaction as what we perceived rightly … Read More

Working on the Babel essay at the moment and as usual it’s going in strange directions…Here’s a tiny excerpt: ‘….Strangely this [I don’t like Mondays] wasn’t the first song with murder as its theme that … Read More

Every now and again an opportunity comes up to curate and later write about some interesting work. Siobhan McGibbon and CURAM gave me one such opportunity. Siobhan McGibbon was part of Tulca 2012 (seems like … Read More

Well we were delighted to be invited to the Cuirt Festival. And a bit nervous. It’s been quite a while since we curated a poetry event. Though we are asked pretty regularly we only agree … Read More

Things perhaps talk themselves into existence. Our religions, our politics, our philosophies, even (if we have them) our love lives. We probably invented religion because we needed someone to blame and something to fear. Had … Read More

I do have enormous admiration for anyone that publishes or edits a small literary or art magazine. Ok it’s not working down a coal mine but it can be pretty wearisome even if it is … Read More