What is there left to say?
| Day | Sunday, 30th October 2011 |
|---|---|
| Time | 16.00 |
| Venue | The Factory |
| Session | Under Bare Ben Bulben's Head |
| Charge | €8 |
What is there left to say?
Mike McCormack talks to John Waters
Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Mike McCormack reads from his work and talks to John Waters. McCormack's writing depicts a parallel Ireland of the imagination that sometimes seems more 'real' than modern Irish reality.
McCormack argues,The Irish were the great experimental writers - Joyce, Beckett and Flann O'Brien. This parlous national moment may be the time to recover that experimental impulse. McCormack was awarded the Rooney
Prize for Irish Literature. Getting it in the Head was voted a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Notes from a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award. A story from the collection, The Terms, was adapted into an award winning short film.
John Waters is a writer, playwright and newspaper columnist. His first book, Jiving at the Crossroads, originally published in 1991, is being issued in an updated edition this autumn. His other books include Race of Angels, Lapsed Agnostic and Feckets (50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland), John is an active member of Sligo Live’s board.
Sligo Live has joined with Sligo-based and visiting writers, thinkers and theatre companies to introduce a spoken word and literary strand and produce an innovative and compelling new dimension to the festival. The spirit of William Butler Yeats lives on in Sligo. His poetic genius and turn of phrase profoundly influence how we see the place, from the ‘light of evening' on Lissadell’s windows, to the curt 'cast a cold eye' pronouncement on the limestone tablet marking the poet's final resting place in the churchyard at Drumcliff. Under Bare Ben Bulben’s Head is a celebration of the creative imagination in our own time as it ricochets off this Yeatsian legacy and takes off in fresh and unexpected directions.
