Criss-Cross Mo Chara

by Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, Mark Braidner (Contribution by)

Overview

Mac Lochlainn works in a unique way. His beat-up anti-heroes are shapeshifters that hover between cultures and wander through broken ‘macaronic’ landscapes. His characters flip a finger at traditions of Irish poetry, translation and storytelling. They leap back and forth, from Bardic poetry to Spaghetti Westerns, from Mississippi blues to sean-nós, weaving a journey that explores the creative process itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908947819
Publisher:	Cló lar-Chonnacht
Publication date:	12/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	159
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Irish (obsolete: use GLE instead)

About the Author

Gearóid Mac Lochlainn was born in Belfast in 1966. His last collection of poetry, Sruth Teangacha / Stream of Tongues, with translations in English, received awards nationally and internationally, and selections of his work have been translated into several languages. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ulster and Queen’s University, Belfast, and a fellow with the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences (University of Massachusetts, Boston.)

Mark Braidner from Belfast (features on the CD which comes with the print version only) has a deep passion for the acoustic blues made popular during the 1920s and 1930s by such artists as Blind Blake, Skip James and Bukka White. His mastery of styles ranges from ragtime and hokum through to down home slide played on either acoustic or national steel guitars.