David Hayden

David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:06 UTC

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:44 UTC

My review of Pol Guasch’s exceptional first novel, ‘Napalm in the Heart’, translated by Mara Faye Lethem, in The Guardian. @faberbooks.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

Jeff Young’s ‘Wild Twin’ is a wild wonder, a lyrical memoir alive with the necessity and impossibility of escape, about making now & breaking down and coming home, about memory, the ever present past and the world folding up behind our steps, lost and forever. Pub Sep @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

this haunted coming A.R. Ammons, ‘Rolling Reality’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

make fresh breeze blow Olive Senior, ‘Senseh’, from ‘Yard Fowl’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

Just don’t act too surprised William Gaddis, from ‘J.R.’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 11:08 UTC

forever now Louise Bogan, ‘Medusa’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 10:59 UTC

Care, Memory, and Melody John Ruskin, from ‘Modern Painters’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:56 UTC

make a deal with pain Umberto Saba, from ‘Autobiography’, tr Stephen Sartarelli

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 19:38 UTC

a lack of immensity Robert Aickman, from ‘The Real Road to the Church’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 11:07 UTC

The flower that repeats Eugenio Montale, a motet, tr Jonathan Galassi

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

Oisín Fagan’s ‘Nobber’ was published five years ago and I think it deserves more attention as one of the strongest Irish novels, perhaps divisively so, of recent times. Here’s my Guardian review from 2019. www.theguardian.com/books/2019/a...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 13:52 UTC

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 20:26 UTC

Poem

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 13:22 UTC

Fifteen years since Ciaran Carson told me my first fiction would be published.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 22:20 UTC

the unchanging scene Tarjei Vesaas, from ‘The Boat in the Evening’, tr Elizabeth Rokkan

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 09:46 UTC

Verity Spott’s ‘The North Road Songbook’ is a book of place, placedness and misplacing, alive with voices of noticing and desire and loss, dense with catastrophe and its strange music. Published by Pilot Press. pilotpress.co.uk/catalogue

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:07 UTC

They’ve not missed yet imo.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

Really looking forward to this. All those publishers have done terrific work on reissues. Just saw that Silver Press are reissuing Pauline Oliveros’s Quantum Listening, with a foreword by Laurie Anderson.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

‘The Long and Short of It: (Re)Publishing Women’s Short Stories’ Tues 16th July at Senate House Library, London. I’ll be listening to these excellent publishers & writers, and talking about Maeve Brennan. Free but reservation essential. senatehouselibrary.libcal.com/calendar/res...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 20:05 UTC

the face of a stranger Henry James, from ‘The Jolly Corner’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 22:55 UTC

to hide us Verity Spott, ‘Roof Terrace’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 11:29 UTC

Reading my story ‘Dublin, We Were’ for the Museum of Literature Ireland. radio.moli.ie/r/david-hayden

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

Everyone wants to be happy Pol Guasch, from ‘Napalm in the Heart’, tr Mara Faye Lethem

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 12:02 UTC

Clair Wills’s ‘Missing Persons’ is a memoir about the unbearable but borne violence of abandonment and erasure enacted in Irish families and other institutions, and through migration. About the relation between secrecy and storytelling. An indispensable work of social history.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

Very enjoyable discussing writing and home at the Museum of Literature Ireland with Anne Enright, Adrian Crowley and Dr Katie Mishler. Time, place and the importance of knowing where the sun rises and sets outside a fictional house. All this and an excellent wonky bossa-nova played on a mellotron.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

Iris Poetry

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 14:42 UTC

‘In Time’, a short story published online in Strings magazine. stringsmag.com/strings-1-da...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 00:31 UTC

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

Through the window of the house by the churchyard in Chapelizod, Dublin, the setting of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel, which is one of the sources for Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. The churchyard of St Lawrence’s being the supposed site of Tristan’s betrothal to Isolde.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 11:10 UTC

Tomorrow evening in Dublin at the Museum of Literature Ireland I will be in conversation with Anne Enright, songwriter Adrian Crowley and literary scholar Dr. Katie Mishler, discussing ‘Writing Home’.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

Someone whose opinion I would trust!

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 19:27 UTC

In an interview in the Paris Review Brookner said of A Misalliance that it 'wasn't a very good book, but it wasn't that bad either. I've written it off'. She allowed it to be reissued in the US after this though.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 10:45 UTC

know the love Vernon Watkins, ‘Song’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 11:57 UTC

CB took a break, I think. Then CP’s own books were published and I guess it got lost in the stream, as books so often do.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 11:36 UTC

Chris Power's 'A brief survey of the short story' series for The Guardian has illuminating, superbly written pieces on 76 essential short story writers. Would make an excellent book. www.theguardian.com/books/series...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 11:45 UTC

Here I am reading my story ‘Dublin, We Were’ for the Museum of Literature Ireland, with music and sound design by Ian Dunphy. Thanks to Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. First published by A Public Space. radio.moli.ie/r/david-hayden

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 11:45 UTC

Here I am reading my story ‘Dublin, We Were’ for the Museum of Literature Ireland, with music and sound design by Ian Dunphy. Thanks to Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. First published by A Public Space. radio.moli.ie/r/david-hayden

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

Returned to Anne Enright’s immensely energetic, funny and convincingly strange first book, ‘The Portable Virgin’, and reminded of what a superb and original short story writer she is.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 10:00 UTC

this minor key John Burnside, from ‘Alcools’

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

My story ‘Egress’ is still up on the late NY Tyrant website. magazine.nytyrant.com/egress-david...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:49 UTC

Mercè Rodoreda’s ‘Journeys and Flowers’ is a book of fear and mystery and beauty and sorrow, a lightning strike of a book that leaves behind a drift of violet smoke and a scent of sulphur and mimosa. Tr Nick Caistor & Gala Sicart Olavide, intro by Helen Oyeyemi. Pub October by Daunt.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

hear the grandiose alibis Aimé Césaire, from ‘Notebook of a Return to the Native Land’, tr Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith.

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