Ποιειν Και Πραττειν - create and do

 

Two poems by Séamas Cain, “The Lady O'Handrahaun” and “Razors,” are included in the November 2014 issue of the online literary journal “TRUCK.”  This issue of “TRUCK,” devoted to innovative and post-modern writing, has been coordinated and edited by Anny Ballardini.

 

With November a time for world-wide commemorations of the dead, and death itself, Ballardini has assembled poetry by Patricia Behrens, Charles Bernstein, Jake Berry, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Peter Ciccariello, Jon Corelis, Catherine Daly, Geoffrey Gatza, Bob Grumman, Jeff Harrison, Athena Kildegaard, Marton Koppany, Jim Leftwich, Nessa O'Mahony, Sheila E. Murphy, Lars Palm, Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Snider, Alan Sondheim, Eileen R. Tabios, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Jeet Thayil, Nico Vassilakis, Joel Weishaus, and many other poets.

 

Ballardini has commented on “the

baroque beauty” of Cain's poems ...

 

 

The November 2014 issue of

Halvard Johnson's TRUCK magazine ...

 

 

Anny Ballardini's CALL FOR WORKS ...

 

 

Anny Ballardini's THE POETS' CORNER ...

 

 

 

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“The Geography of Surrealist Revolt,” an essay by Séamas Cain, is included in “HYDROLITH 2.”  This “HYDROLITH 2,” a truly monumental anthology of contemporary Surrealist writing, at 368 pages, was published by Oyster Moon Press on Halloween of 2014.

 

“HYDROLITH 2” has sought to assemble a large collection of exclusively recent work by groups and individuals of the international Surrealist movement, “to facilitate intellectual exchange and collaboration, enabling us to concentrate the echoes of our commonalities as well as the shadows of our differences.  In so doing, this volume aspires to reduce all manner of distances that exist between us.”

 

“HYDROLITH 2” is now available and can be ordered from LULU.com for $12.44 USD ...

 

 

There is also a PDF version of “HYDROLITH 2” which can be downloaded for free at LULU.com ...

 

 

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“SHIVERS OF WATER,” a poem by Séamas Cain, was included in the exhibition BIG SPLASH POETRY NETWORK at the Festival OLE.01 in the old Royal Palace at Naples, Italy, 8 October through 3 November 2014.

 

 

This assemblage or installation of poems accompanied a large display of digital photographs by the artist Caterina Davinio.  This BIG SPLASH POETRY NETWORK included the works of 180 poets and artists from around the world, including Demosthenes Agrafiotis, John M. Bennett, Julien Blaine, Mairéad Byrne, Luisella Carretta, Antonino Contiliano, Francesca Del Moro, Klaus Peter Dencker, Carla de Falco, Valter Ferrari, Luc Fierens, Loss Pequeño Glazier, David Hockney, Michael Lasater, Helene Paraskeva, David W. Seaman, Reiner Strasser, Joel Weishaus, and Umut Yalim.

 

THE FESTIVAL OLE.01 ...

 

 

BIG SPLASH POETRY NETWORK ...

 

 

CATERINA DAVINIO'S WEB-SITE ...

 

 

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Creative work and correspondence from Séamas Cain have been included in “The Papers of Max Blechman” at the Tamiment Library of New York University (NYU).  The Blechman Papers also contain work and correspondence from Cornelius Castoriadis, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pietro Ferrua, Morgan Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Rockwell Kent, Wilfredo Machado, Jackson MacLow, Judith Malina, Dachine Rainer, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, and others.

 

 

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Diarmuid Curraoin's “I know that I have broken every heart : the significance of the Irish language in Finnegans Wake and in other works of James Joyce” has been published in 2014 by Maunsel & Company at Dublin, Ireland and The Academica Press at Palo Alto, California.

 

Séamas Cain has said that “this is the most original work on James Joyce since the 1950s!  Curraoin, fluent since childhood in the ‘Ring’ dialect of Gaelic, reveals Joyce's uses of this dialect, and the secret messages conveyed by Joyce through this ‘secret’ language, in all of his writings.  For it is in the ‘Ring’ dialect in FINNEGANS WAKE that James Joyce reveals his deepest personal concerns, worries in regard to the illness of his daughter Lucia, the manner in which his lifestyle has impacted upon his wider family, the state in which Ireland finds herself, and the way in which he is viewed at home.”

 

 

 

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Seamas Cain is also author of: “THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS” ...