Sep 15, 2009 | Features
My memoir, ‘All The Dead Voices’, was published in 2002 but has now gone out of print. It was launched in Culturlann by the Mayor of Belfast, Alex Maskey, and there was a large crowd in attendance. However, just before the launch, when the representatives of Mercier...
Sep 12, 2009 | Features
How other writers work and compose interests me; which is why I often read many books which provide an insight into the writing life. There were several positive reviews of Graham Swift’s ‘Making An Elephant’ some months back and so I ordered it from my local library....
Sep 11, 2009 | Latest
11th September. Read ‘Making An Elephant, Writing From Within’ by Graham Swift, author of ‘Waterland’ and ‘Last Orders’. I saw the book reviewed only recently, ordered it from the Falls Public Library and – hey presto! – in it came a week later, brand new in hardback,...
Sep 7, 2009 | Features
‘On The Back of the Swallow’ is now available for downloading for free in PDF format. It was my second novel and I wrote it whilst imprisoned in the H-Blocks. It took about thirteen months to write. In August 1994 I was on my first parole and officially launched the...
Aug 27, 2009 | Features
Down the years my friend Tim O’Grady has been very good to me. He visited me in jail, wrote to me and sent me books, wrote a piece for ‘The Guardian’ about my court case which was rejected at the time; introduced me to the writings of John Berger and Richard Wright;...
