Stop 6 on The Juno Charm virtual tour takes me to Mel Ulm's blog, The Reading Life, in the Philippines. A snippet of our conversation:
Mel: Your poems and short stories assume a good
knowledge, for example, of European painting and French history. My
question then is do you think there is a "Joyce" effect in your work? Does the heritage of Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett drive the standards
of acceptable writing among Irish writers to higher levels than one might
find elsewhere?
Me: Well, I think there is definitely a sense of our literary heritage
hovering over our heads. We all learn the greats at school (Yeats, Kavanagh,
Boland et al) and so we are steeped in them from a young age.
Read the rest here.
4 comments:
Wonderful interview Nuala
Thanks Honey :)
Quite a probing interview - superb to read, and great answers.
Indeedy Rae ;) And thanks!
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