We’re working hard to develop our distribution network in the UK and the US so we can grow and compete on a bigger stage. The Iron Age is published by Tramp Press. Sunday Business Post. Each of us carried a shard of that iron in our hearts. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The family struggle between Father’s insistence that they assimilate and yet that they also keep their proud martial Finnish identity amongst the peace loving socialist Swedes. The poems of this collection impress upon us that magic and depth can be found in the minutiae of the everyday.” - Poetry Ireland Review, Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Hartnett Poetry Award, "...long-considered obsessions are explored with tenderness and unflinching curiosity. Thank you Lisa for answering my questions, and congratulations on the part you and Sarah played in getting that other literary prize, The Man Booker, to accept submissions from Irish-published novels. The second half of the book chronicles the start of the family’s life in Sweden – which in many ways takes an even darker turn. In my pocket is a tissue imprinted with dabbed lipstick, a sequence of wordless mouths come unstuck, each one red as blood. His traditional attitudes are now as anachronistic as the clothes he chose to impress, viewed askance by the Swedish. The growth of independent publishers like Galley Beggar, And Other Stories and so on has seen the conservatism of the big 5 being somewhat balanced out in terms of representation on shelves. But most of all she was angry with Grandfather because he was dead, Father was always telling mother to shut up. We're delighted to present an extract from A Ghost in the Throat (published by Tramp Press), the new book from writer and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa.. I could be underwater, now; I could be breathing liquid, looking up to a Beyond that exists on the other side of the swell that hovers overhead. Chatting to independent publisher, Tramp Press, The Iron Age by Arja Kajermo, published by Tramp Press, Robyn Reviews: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. We publish the best writing by new and established authors, and we’re working hard to nurture great talent all the time. When the book opens Marcus is standing in the kitchen of his family home listening to the Angelus bell ring out from the village church a mile away. Another grand deletion this. We're delighted to present an extract from A Ghost in the Throat (published by Tramp Press), the new book from writer and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Entwined with the historical details she uncovers are the challenges she herself faces as her fourth child makes its way into the world. The people raise, grow or make the bulk of what they need. Books become a solace, her voice a hindrance. An extraordinary book that deserves wide attention. Not a single turn of phrase is dull or misplaced. Blot. Thorn bushes. Arja Kajermo is a cartoonist – born in Finland, raised in Sweden, and living in Ireland. The illustrations work perfectly with the text, adding an extra dimension. The gesture of pinching clothes to the line requires my arms to reach skywards, to where clouds gush by, a flood suspended in layers of silvers and greys. Coming tomorrow, an interview with the publisher of this book. Eventually he decides that his family should move to Sweden (minus his oldest son, who he unsuccessfully plans to inherit the family farm on the death of his other relatives). “This exquisitely crafted memoir is written in blood and milk, and its drawing on a decade of poems in translation. Plucked. Mike McCormack talks about how hard it was for his unusual style of writing to get published, and that’s no longer a problem. Eventually she must accept that she has found everything available to her about Eibhlín Dubh. RTÉ is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. Critical review space is shrinking all the time, so it’s vital to have another opportunity to demonstrate that someone else has read and judged the novel to be important new work. She stops speaking altogether and draws into herself. That is something I strive for in my art. “My weeks are decanted between the twin forces of milk and text, weeks that soon pour into months, and then into years. This future he talks of appears a myth to the child, much like his stories from the past which he shares repeatedly with local visitors. An introduction – who you are and what you aim to achieve? Not in Sweden. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman composes an extraordinary poem that reaches across the centuries to another poet. Call it a cloud. As part of my feature on the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses I invited publishers and authors whose books were selected for the longlist to answer a few questions or write a guest post for my blog. We were now what mother called ummikko. The narrator’s reaction both to her father’s continuing anger and the ummikko issue is a two fold withdrawal. She glories in her ability to create and nurture the tiny miracles that are her children. In many ways his is an ordinary life, as he wished it to be. publication marks an important event in the maturing of Irish literature… I Then he set to trying his damnedest to destroy both the looks and the attitude. - Poetry Magazine (Chicago), '... consult Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Clasp (Dedalus Press)... to see just how exciting a refashioning of Irish He takes pride in his ability to work to a standard. Arja’s novel has all of those components and so I had a really good time working with it. The book is narrated by a girl, growing up in the first half of the book in rural poverty in Finland in the 1950s, the youngest in a family of four – her father, injured in the defeat in the Continuation War of 1941-1944 and seemingly suffering from PTSD. Raised on a farm he remembers his childhood and then the deaths of his parents. Yet still she wants more babies – concerned with what she will become if not nurturing children.

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