Pandemic exercises

It feels like today is either the 45th of April or the 273rd of January. All I know is that it’s a Tuesday and Ireland is (still) in lockdown. I no longer know how many days we have been in lockdown. It’s enervating. I haven’t wanted to write lately, or I have but I haven’t […]

Strange alchemy

Take nine strangers, with nothing in common but a love of words. Drop them in a country house in the Boyne Valley. Leave them there for a few days, surrounded by rolling pastures, with a soundtrack provided by a lawnmower, a whistling podcaster, some highly irritated cows, and infrequently-bleating sheep. Cellphone coverage is spotty, the […]