Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A new diaspora ...

... 'What daffodils were to Wordsworth, drains and backstreet pubs are to me'. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

For seven years Conor O’Callaghan has lived away. Three of those years were spent in Philadelphia and North Carolina, and since 2007 he has been in Manchester, all because of teaching jobs. “But, apart from the practicality of that, I found being in Ireland increasingly claustrophobic,” he says. “There was a bigger world of poetry happening out there, and I wanted to get nearer it. I found the Irish poetry scene very incestuous and introverted.

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