The Storms, the printed journal of poetry, prose and visual art is delighted to announce the launch of its new issue, with thanks to the support of Dublin UNESCO City of Literature / Dublin City Council and Fingal Arts / Fingal County Council
150 pages, 93 contributors, 1 city.
What does Dublin mean to you? Its streets, its scent, its spirit; from Guinness’s brewing barley to the closed-up twin towers of Poolbeg to its Pride parade. Its legends and ladies from the Diceman and Dudley Thomas to a rubbed-down Molly and the relocated Anne Livia. Its bridges, bravado, barstools, Behans and broken hearts.
All right, Dublin?
And now that I see you again I could eat you alive.
Before you have the chance to eat me, you two-faced get.
So says Rebecca D’Arcy in the opening poem of The Storms, Issue 4, the printed journal of poetry, prose and visual arts. This new anthology has gathered 93 contributors and asked them to offer up their take on the capital, its chaos, clatter and continual evolution, this ever-changing, ever screaming, drinking, shouting, revolting, accepting, protesting Baile Átha Cliath.
The Bloom has changed since Joyce sealed this city as a literature capital, scorching, not just kidneys, but a story-telling tradition that stretches far beyond Sweny’s, Mulligans, Davy Byrnes and that Martello tower wave-watching in Sandycove.
With grateful acknowledgement to the support of Dublin UNESCO City of Literature/ Dublin City Council and Fingal Arts/ Fingal County Council, this new issue shares insights into a single city spanning over 100 years, artist’s impressions and all that the streets have pressed upon each artist. The theme, Dublin Days, from city to shore and across the sea, takes us from Marie Curie interviews in Trinity College in 1904 through to the echoes of 1916, those tenements, that Monto, the Laundries, the Liberties, the Liffey and flows on to the Stardust and out to the suburbs, the glasshouses, the shore, the sea and the calls from across the water, up to the restlessness, the riots and the tide of change alive in its newest residents, surprisingly reviving an almost lost language.
150 pages, 93 artists and 1 city. Contributors include poet and novelist Mary O’Donnell, author and journalist Geraldine Walsh, our featured prose writer and DLR Emerging Writer in Residence Joanne Hayden, spoken word artists Sheila Ryder and our featured poet Ciara Ni É, poets Catherine Ann Cullen, Sree Sen, Ger Duffy, Fiona Bolger, Sarah Hirons and Brian Kirk, visual artists from our cover artist Darragh Treacy to our featured visual artist Nunce McAuley, along with international contributions thanks to German poet Sven Kretzschmar, Brazilian writer Rodrigo Schönardie, Limerick based Ugandan writer Michelle Ivy Alwedo, Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi and Ola Majekodunmi from Nigeria, American photographer Michael C. Roberts and Janina Aza Karpinska and Catherine Cronin in the United Kingdom, all the way to our youngest contributor, gazing at the Gaiety, Eva McGettigan Murphy. This issue is edited and produced by poet, podcaster and arts promotor, Damien B. Donnelly and Issue 4 subeditor, writer, mentor and facilitator, Fiona O’Rourke.
A day in Dublin can do that to you, put things in perspective, make you see at the end of one thing is always the beginning of another…
from Beautiful, Still, our final story by Sarah Coffey
The Storms, issue 4 is available directly from eatthestorms.com or The Winding Stair Bookshop and Books Upstairs, both in Dublin.
The Storms is honoured to be supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and Fingal Arts Office
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