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Amanda Bell is an editor, indexer, poet & writer based in Dublin
Links to work
Autumn/Winter 2022/23
In January Amanda was a guest reader at a hybrid new year's event organised by the Cercle Littéraire Irlandais. She had two haiku selected for the Museum of Haiku in Blithe Spirit, and her haibun 'Visible Mending' will be featured on the 'Threads' episode of Keywords, which is broadcast on RTE Radio 1 on Sunday evenings at 7pm.
This October Amanda was awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland, to work on an historical novel.
Amanda has panels of haiku in two exhibitions in Delft (The Netherlands), opening on 3 September in the Vermeer Centrum and the Oude Kerk.
She appeared at Holocaust Awareness Ireland's event in Dublin Castle on 28th September, reading 'Visible Mending' a commissioned response to 'The Objects of Love' exhibition. She also took part in a panel discussion chaired by Roddy Doyle. She gave a poetry reading at Bray Literary Festival on 30th September.
Amanda has been commissioned by Holocaust Awareness Ireland to write a response to 'The Objects of Love' exhibition. She has a poem ('Brittle Cinder') in the all poetry issue of The Stinging Fly, a haibun in the forthcoming Dedalus Anthology of Love Poetry, and a long travel-based haibun forthcoming in Contemporary Haibun Online.
In June, Amanda is travelling to Delft at the invitation of the Prix de Norvège Society to look at the work of Vermeer and write a response to be included in art exhibitions at the Vermeer Centrum and the Oude Kerke.
Amanda's chapbook of haiku, Revolution, was published by wildflower poetry press on 21 March 2022
Here is Amanda's q&a with Eleanor Hooker in Books Ireland
Amanda was judging the haibun competition for the British Haiku Society this February; you can read the report here. She will be reading at Cork World Book Festival on 20th April with Nithy Kasa and William Wall (Poet Laureate of Cork), and at Limerick Literary Festival and Cork Harbour Festival, dates tbc. Riptide will be given an in-person launch alongside Nithy Kasa's debut and David Butler's Liffey Sequence at Poetry Ireland on 11 May.
Amanda launched Sean O'Connor's fascinating book Fragmentation on Sunday 13 November. The launch can be viewed online.
Donald Teskey had a new exhibition, Strands, in the beautiful Claremorris Gallery, and Amanda was honoured to open the exhibition and read some poetry on 20 November.
She recorded a podcast for Books for Breakfast with Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr at the end of the November.
Amanda's new collection Riptide was launched on 29th September by Maurice Devitt. It was a joint launch with David Butler. You can watch the launch here.
Podcaster in Residence at the Royal Irish Academy, Zoe Comyns, commissioned Amanda to write four pieces responding to the life of Cynthia Longfield (aka 'Madame Dragonfly'), along with a new poem. You can listen to the episode here.
Amanda was interviewed by Meghann Scully of The Limerick Post on 28th September – about Riptide, writing poetry, and exhibitions in The Hunt Museum and Ballinglen Museum. You can watch the interview here.
Amanda will be featured on Books for Breakfast with Enda Wyley and Peter Sirr this November.
Amanda's poem 'Donald Teskey, Ballinglen' was used as the colophon for a unique boxed set of carborundum prints by Donald Teskey produced by Stoney Road Press, which was presented by the artist to Ballinglen Arts Foundation in August. The poem has also been published by online literary journal The Phare
For Wexford Literary Festival in July, Amanda did a reading from her essay 'Urban Foraging' which is published in Empty House: Poetry and Prose on the Climate Crisis, ed. Nessa O'Mahony and Alice Kinsella, Doire Press.
Amanda did a reading at the Kerala Literature Festival online on 28 May. Listen here.
Amanda has new work in Abridged, cattails, Presence, and Seashores.
Planning has started for Harolds Cross Festival, and Amanda is curating a poetry reading on Saturday 8th May. '8 x 5: The Poetry Line', will be available on the haroldscross.org website, and features Catherine Ann Cullen, Maggie O'Dwyer, Gerard Smyth, Enda Wyley, Peter Sirr, Michael O'Loughlin, and Gilles Fabre. https://youtu.be/hX2SsQIlrws
On Poetry Day Ireland, 29 April 2021, Amanda was delighted to participate in the Haibun High Tea – watch it here: https://youtu.be/w0r0XxIUnPE
She is also curating a showcase by participants from her writing course, 'A Sense of Place', for the festival. https://youtu.be/dInQp8JZgW4
Amanda was delighted to read in Washington DC (via Zoom) at Politics and Prose Bookstore, at the invitation of Nishi Chawla and K. Satchidanandan, to promote the anthology Singing in the Dark: A Global Anthology of Poetry Under Lockdown. Great to read alongside Nishi and Satchi, and also Sudeep Sen, Max Garland, Barbara Oppenheimar, Amir Or, Diane Wilbon Parks, Yiorgos Chouliaras, and Stanley Barkan.
Amanda's blog entry about editing poetry for the AFEPI
Poems appeared in The Stony Thursday Book and Belfield Review, and haiku in Blithe Spirit and Presence
Amanda was awarded a Literature Bursary and Professional Development Award by The Arts Council of Ireland
'Aubade', Poem of the Week in The Irish Times, 24 October 2020
Revolution, an illustrated chapbook, is forthcoming from Wildflower Poetry Press, edited by Caroline Skanne
Some poems from First the Feathers are featured in this lovely anthology Singing in the Dark
Amanda's Garden Lockdown haiku sequence appears in Gratitude in the Time of Covid: A Haiku Hecameron, edited by Scott Mason. Available to buy here.
Amanda's review of Rita Ann Higgins's Pathogens Love a Patsy in The Dublin Review of Books
'The Value of Cut Flowers' won second prize in Bray Literary Festival's Poetry Competition
Haiku forthcoming in Blithe Spirit, Presence, and Seashores
Amanda is now on the panel of Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme
Review of John McAuliffe's The Kabul Olympics in The Dublin Review of Books
My review of Ecopiety: Green Media and the dilemma of environmental virtue by Sarah McFarland Taylor in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.
Three new poems in The Blue Nib
Amanda's review of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet in the Dublin Review of Books
Amanda is delighted to be involved with the Fighting Words Young Storykeeper project. She has poems forthcoming in The Blue Nib and The Irish Times
Amanda's piece 'Contactless' is part of this episode of New Normal Culture's Keywords: Windows on RTE 1 Extra
I was delighted to curate the Harold's Cross Festival Online Poetry Reading, featuring Catherine Ann Cullen, Judith Mok, John O'Donnell, Michael O'Loughlin, Peter Sirr, Enda Wyley, and Adam Wyeth
Review of Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist in The Irish Times
Amanda's poem 'Crow' is featured here on the Mary Evans Picture Library 'Poetry and Pictures' blog
'Seawards', a haibun from Undercurrents, is featured in Stravaig #8, from the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics
Poems/haibun forthcoming in The Stony Thursday Book, ed. Martin Dyar, and Blithe Spirit, ed. Caroline Skanne. Review of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet forthcoming in DRB
Counterpointe 8, a contemporary ballet in Brooklyn NY, based on The Loneliness of the Sasquatch, has been staged by sculptor Mary Schwab and choreographer Julia Gleich in the Mark O'Donnell Theatre
Amanda is spending a week in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, this month, redrafting her YA novel and working on some poems for her new collection.
Review of Robert Macfarlane's Underland in the Dublin Review of Books
Words Lightly Spoken: Poetry Ireland Review 129, Winter 2019. Amanda Bell and Eleanor Hooker in conversation with Paul Perry
Amanda's poem 'Xmas' is in Poetry Ireland Review 129, launching on 12th December, and being podcast by Poetry Ireland later this month
'Winter Citrus' from First the Feathers is featured on RTE's The Poetry Programme, being broadcast on Christmas Day at 7pm
Amanda's novel Wolf Mountain is a runner-up for The Irish Writers Centre 2020 Novel Fair
Review of Mary Noonan's Stone Girl, in the Dublin Review of Books
A short review of Robert Macfarlane's Ness in The Irish Times
The loneliness of the sasquatch
translated into Romanian
by Dr Olimpia Jacob
Review of Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing in the Dublin Review of Books
Amanda will be reading a poem by Dorothy Molloy at the launch of The Poems of Dorothy Molloy (Faber) on 19th November in Poetry Ireland
22 November – reading with Gabriel Rosenstock and Danielle McLoughlin at Ó Bhéal's Winter Warmer in the Krino, Cork
Review of Kathleen Jamie's Surfacing (Sort of Books, September 2019) is in The Irish Times on Saturday 12th.
Ranelagh Arts Festival – literary discussion panel chaired by Michael O'Loughlin, with Erin Fornoff, Ailbhe Smith, and Oisin Fagan.
Amanda is recording eight poems for the Irish Poetry Reading Archive in UCD.
Review of Don't Touch My Hair on the DRB website. Poems forthcoming in Boyne Berries, Angle 2, Channel, Poetry Ireland Review and Ofi Press.
A review of the loneliness of the sasquatch in Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, by Mary Cresswell.
A feature on The Lost Library Book and Marsh's Library here in Books Ireland.
This month Amanda attended a course on how to lead a workshop for writers, facilitated by Lynn Buckle in The Irish Writers Centre.
Poems forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review, Prole, The Ofi Press, and Skylight 47, and a new haibun and a haiku sequence accepted for Blithe Spirit by editor Caroline Skanne. My haibun 'Outlaws' is in the current issue of Presence.
A little review in July/August 2019 issue of Books Ireland
Here is Amanda reading 'The Sleepless' on Lyric FM's Poetry File on Saturday 1 June.
More excerpts from The loneliness of the sasquatch, translated into Romanian by Dr Olimpia Jacob, and published in Convorbiri Literare.
Two poems from First the Feathers have made their way into fine Australian journals, Backstory and Other Terrain, edited by powerhouse Anne Casey.
Amanda is delighted to have two pieces of work at UCD Festival on 8th June – a haiku from Undercurrents is featured as a rain poem, and 'Canicule', from First the Feathers, is on the Poetry Wall in the James Joyce Library.
Review of Rosita Boland's Elsewhere in the Dublin Review of Books.
Review of Rita Ann Higgins's Our Killer City in the Dublin Review of Books.
Excerpts from the loneliness of the sasquatch available as a podcast from Poetry File on RTE Lyric FM.
Amanda is reading in Strokestown International Poetry Festival on Saturday 4th May at 8pm, with Jane Robinson and Gillian Clarke. Music from Finbar Mcgee and Breige Quinn.
Friday 17th May is the Music and Poetry Salon in Harold's Cross Festival. Amanda will be doing a bilingual reading with Gabriel Rosenstock. Other readers are Ron Carey, Catherine Ann Cullen and Erin Fornoff. Music from Pearse McGloughlin's Nocturnes.
Sunday 19th May Amanda is reading some riverine poems at the Dodder Action Group's Picnic, Dropping Well Park, Dartry at 3 pm, with Catherine Ann Cullen and Jean O'Brien.
Amanda's review of Markievicz: Prison Letters and Rebel Writings is in the May/June issue of Books Ireland.
Amanda will be reading haiku at Experience Japan in Farmleigh on Sunday 7th. The Haibun Journal, of which she is assistant editor, is being launched on 10 April in The Teachers' Club, and she is reading poems from the Leaving Certificate English course in Rathmines College on Friday 12th, along with poets Maeve O'Sullivan, Maurice Devitt, Christine Broe, Simon Coury and Adam Wyeth. After Easter she is delivering a paper about haibun in UCD's inaugural AWP conference on Thursday 25th April
The loneliness of the sasquatch has been translated into Romanian by Dr Olimpia Jacob, and published in Convorbiri Literare.
This month Amanda is looking forward to Trim Poetry Festival, and delighted to have a poem shortlisted in their poetry competition. She will also be giving workshops in Cabinteely and Blackrock Libraries (DLR) and in the Burrow School in Baldoyle.
Workshops this month in DLR libraries:
Amanda has some translations in The Bloomsbury Anthology of 110 More Great Indian Poems, edited by Abhay K:
A Romanian translation (by Dr Olimpia Iacob, Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Vasile Goldis West University in Arad, Romania), of an extract from The loneliness of the sasquatch is to be published in Convorbiri Literare.
An extract and the interview from The loneliness of the sasquatch is available on the beautiful Italian-based Margutte website.
A little review of First the Feathers and The loneliness of the sasquatch in the New Books section of the Dublin Review of Books.
Here's my review of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Northern Lights (The Gallery Press, 2018) in the Dublin Review of Books.
Submissions are now open for The Haibun Journal 1.1, under the editorship of Sean O'Connor. I am delighted to be an assistant editor, along with Kim Richardson, publisher with Alba Publishing.
On 7th February I spent an afternoon with a group of students from Lycée Faidherbe in Lille, Northern France. They have been studying Undercurrents with their head of English, and have produced this beautiful book of their own poetry – Grass petals.
This month I travelled to Oslo at the invitation of the Prix de Norvège Society to participate in 'The New Scream'. This project brought together a group of writers and artists to learn about Edvard Munch's art and life, and collaborate on a creative project. I am honoured that the Arts Council of Ireland granted me a Training and Travel Award, and look forward to producing new work for a book based on our experiences.
Sitting underneath Per Krohg's painting in the Grand Café. Edvard Munch is the figure seated behind the bearded man in green.
Also this month, I have new poems appearing in The North and in Skylight 47, both of which are to launched on 24th January.
On my return I am running some workshops on Psychogeography for secondary school students in DLR libraries. The focus will be on how writers create a sense of place.
21 December – The Loneliness of the Sasquatch features in this review article in The Irish Times, along with collections by the wonderful Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Doireann Ní Ghríofa.
On Tuesday 11 December the Angle is being launched in the Devlin in Ranelagh. I'm delighted to have work in this journal, which is being sold in aid of the Peter McVerry Trust.
I will be reading in Rathmines Library on 12th December with Catherine Ann Cullen, Maurice Devitt, and Maeve O'Sullivan.
I was delighted to be invited to Oslo in the new year by the Society of the Prix de Norvège, to participate in 'The New Scream' project.
Some photos from last night's launch of The loneliness of the sasquatch – me reading from the book; publisher Kim Richardson (Alba) with Dr Lucy Collins (launcher) and myself; Kim with Eithne Rosenstock; Tristan Rosenstock playing Irish airs on the low whistle.
My article about the loneliness of the sasquatch in The Irish Times
The loneliness of the sasquatch (Alba Publishing) was launched by Dr Lucy Collins in the Teachers' Club, 36 Parnell Square, at 7pm on 22 November. Here's a preview in the autumn edition of Harold's XPress:
More workshops with The Lost Library Book will be taking place in Donabate on 30th November.
This month I'm doing lots of visits to libraries in Fingal, talking about The Lost Library Book, designing book plates, and much more!
I'll be reading 'The New Road' at the Redline Book Festival, on Wednesday 10th at the launch of the Red Lines, an anthology of the first five years of the Redline Poetry Competition..
Delighted to have some haiku forthcoming in Blithe Spirit, the BHS Members' Anthology, and in Wishbone Moon: An Collection of International Women's Haiku to be launched at Westival at the end of the month.
The loneliness of the sasquatch goes to print this month, well on schedule for its launch by Dr Lucy Collins on 22 November in The Teachers Club, 18.30.
Poems accepted by Crannóg 49, and the Irish issue of The North, (eds Jane Clarke and Nessa O'Mahony); haiku accepted for the new haiku journal Seashores, and a haibun accepted for cattails (ed. Mike Montreuil).
I presented a paper about haibun as the new nature writing at the ASLE-UKI conference 'A Place at the Edge' in Kirkwall, Orkney, 4-8 September.
My interview and reading on 'Rhyme and Reason' with Helen Dwyer for Dublin South FM, recorded this month, will air at 7pm on Friday 5 October.
My poem 'The New Road' is to appear in a chapbook of poems placed and shortlisted in the Redline Poetry Competition, and my haibun 'Wintering' has been accepted by Haibun Today. Slots for The Lost Library Book workshops are filling up well for the autumn – I'll be visiting lots of libraries in Fingal.
The Interpreter's House 68 has a review of First the Feathers by Dawn Gorman: 'This is a powerful collection by a poet whose clear, logical thinking maintains clean control over unusual, thought-provoking subjects. Read it, learn much.'
20 June – happy to hear this morning that I have a poem accepted for The Stony Thursday Book No. 16, edited by Nessa O'Mahony.
Really pleased to be reading on the fringe of West Cork Literary Festival, Monday 16th July at 4pm in Organico café, with Poetry Divas Kate Dempsey and Maeve O'Sullivan. I'm taking Martina Evans's workshop so it should be a great week.
On 31 May I was delighted to be part of the Wild Voices Writers' Salon curated by the wonderful Annemarie Ní Churreáin. Nine poets and a harpist responding to the words of John Moriarty. It was great treat to read with Karen J. McDonnell, Victoria Kennefick, Alice Kinsella, Faye Boland, James Martyn Joyce, Nicholas McLachlan, Stephen Murphy and Liz Quirke, and harpist Eithne Walsh.
I'm very pleased to have a poem in the inaugural issue of the Smithereens Literary Magazine.
18 May – Playing with Poetry. A delightful neighbourhood evening of poetry and music with me, Catherine Ann Cullen, Erin Fornoff, and musicians Sam Brown and Pearse McGloughlin as part of Harold's Cross Festival in the Education Centre Theatre in Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross.
It was an honour to be included in the 'Blank Page: Poets in Conversation' series in the National Library on 10 May, where Niall Macmonagle chaired a discussion with me and John O'Donnell about our poetry. We each discussed the process of writing the title poems of our recent collections, First the Feathers, and Sunlight.
My review of Anna Carey's Mollie on the March is in the current issue of Books Ireland.
I had a very enjoyable evening as Kate Ennals' guest At the Edge, reading with Rosemary Jenkinson, Stephanie Conn, and Ron Carey in Cavan's Johnston Library, on 1 May.
My piece in Harolds Xpress, about my trip to Kerala Literary Festival this February:
22 April 2018 – Reading under the cherry tree in Farmleigh on Japan Day with fellow Haiku Ireland members David J.Kelly, Maeve O'Sullivan and Glenda Cimino
An exciting month ahead, with the launch of Autonomy edited by Kathy D'Arcy, in Books Upstairs on 13 April, reading with Haiku Ireland members in Farmleigh for Japan Day on 22 April, and appearing in Cork World Book Fest at 'Here, There and In-between' on 28th April, reading with Robyn Rowland and Cedric Bikond Nkoma
30 March – Haiku Wales, a very interesting new journal edited by Paul Chambers, went live today, and includes my essay 'Imaginative Linkage: Haibun in Ireland'
26 March. Phonica: Eight – a mind-blowing evening of cross-pollinated sound and word. I was delighted to participate in a polyphonic stage reading of Joanna Walsh's novella 'Seed', with a great cast of twelve amateur readers including Susan Tomaselli, June Caldwell, Dimitra Xidous and Dominique Cleary.
My poem 'Moving Statues' is in Autonomy, edited by Kathy D'Arcy, which will be launched in Books Upstairs in Dublin on 13 April
My poem 'Hume Street' is in the new issue of The Interpreters House, edited by Martin Malone.
Sunday 25 March – It was a privilege to be shortlisted for the The DLR Shine Strong Award with fine poets Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Erin Fornoff, Elaine Cosgrove, and Rachael Hegarty, author of the winning collection Flightpaths over Finglas.
Sunday 18 March – my new haibun 'Hoppers and Daddies' in Contemporary Haibun Online
Saturday 10 March – reading in the Irish Writers Centre with WomenXBorders
Some highlights of the wonderful Kerala Literature Festival: 'No Democracy Without Dissent', 8-11 February 2018, in Kozhikode Beach. Ireland was the guest country, and I attended with Conor Kostick, Alan Titley, Gabriel Rosenstock, Paddy Bushe, and Liam Carson, with the generous support of Culture Ireland.
Heading to Kerala Literary Festival for readings and panel discussions (8-12 February). This announcement is a great send-off.
Here's my interview with Sophie Grenham in The Gloss
I will be reading in Books Upstairs on Sunday 28th January 2018 at 3pm with fellow Hibernian Writers Maeve O'Sullivan and Brian Kirk.
I wrote an essay for the Irish Times examining the human/animal strand in First the Feathers.
Culture Ireland has generously agreed to fund my trip to Kerala Literary Festival in February.
Lovely evening of poetry and music in Rathmines Library with Maurice Devitt, Maeve O'Sullivan and Bernadette NicGabhann.
28 November: Great night at the BGEIBAs, many thanks to Listowel Writers' Week Committee – it was a privilege to have 'Points' shortlisted as Irish Poem of the Year, along with John McAuliffe, Tara Bergin, and author of the winning poem Clodagh Beresford-Dunne.
Gabriel Rosenstock has translated 'Immortality', from First the Feathers, into Irish. Here it is on the Poetry India Facebook page.
Delighted to have my poem 'Hume Street' accepted for publication in The Interpreter's House.
Talking about 'Points' at the launch of the BGEIBAs shortlist
2 Nov – My poem 'Points', first published in The Irish Times, is shortlisted for the Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year in the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
First the Feathers was launched by Enda Wyley in Pearse Street Library, 144 Pearse Street, on 16 November at 6.30pm – thanks to everyone who came along
The BGEIBAs ceremony is on 28 November
Delighted to have two pieces in Gorse 9, to be launched on 29 November
I participated in a reading and discussion about debut collections in Smock Alley at 1pm on Friday 3 November 2017, as part of Dublin Book Festival, with Brian Kirk and fellow Doire Press poet Emma McKervey
Primary school students have been designing some beautiful book plates at my 'Lost Library Book' workshops
Delighted with this review of Undercurrents in Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics
Had a fabulous weekend at Dromineer Literary Festival!
The cover of First the Feathers!
Looking forward to reading from it next weekend at the Dromineer Literary Festival Launching Party
Lovely review of The Lost Library Book in CBI's Inis Reading Guide:
22-24 September 2017, CBI's fabulous annual conference – honoured to be presenting The Lost Library Book on the New Voices panel
First the Feathers has gone to the printers, in good time for the Dromineer Literary Festival Launching Party on 7th October
Presenting The Lost Library Book on the New Voices panel, CBI conference, next weekend.
Reading at Staccato on 13th September with fellow Hibernian Brian Kirk and others
'Striking Out', a haibun from my collection, is in the new issue of Haibun Today
Poems forthcoming this autumn: 'Moon' and 'The New Road' in Banshee 5, 'Seedlings' and Urban Foraging' in Gorse 9, 'Immortality' in Skylight 47, 'Mount Jerome' in Crannóg 46
Two haiku from Undercurrents are to be included in an anthology of women's haiku, edited by Roberta Beary, Ellen Compton, and Kala Ramesh
Books@One's inaugural Literary Festival in Louisburgh 17-20 August. I'll be reading from The Lost Library Book in the library at 2pm on Friday 18th.
Some poem films on Vimeo: 'Points', 'Cockle Picking' and 'The Ballad of Mary Anne Cadden'
'Points', from forthcoming collection First the Feathers (Doire Press, November 2017) was The Saturday Poem in The Irish Times, 22 July 2017
A new haibun, 'Striking Out', forthcoming in Haibun Today
Two poems accepted for Issue 5 of Banshee
Becky Long's lovely review of The Lost Library Book in Inis
My film of 'The Ballad of Mary Anne Cadden' is now on vimeo
Here I am in CBI's line-up for the conference this September
23 June – In today's Irish Times, Frank McNally's Irishman's Diary is about Marsh's Library, the exhibition 'Hunting Stolen Books', and The Lost Library Book
Delighted to have a couple of haibun accepted by Christodoulos Makris for Gorse 9
Primary school workshops with The Lost Library Book
The Lost Library Book featured in Sarah Webb's Children's Books Summer Special in The Irish Independent on 10 June
The Lost Library Book was launched by His Grace, Archbishop Michael Jackson on Saturday 20th May in Marsh's Library, and sold out all the stock on the day. There are plenty more on the way, and I will be talking about the book at the following venues this month:
31 May: Wexford and Enniscorthy Public Libraries
10 May: Rathfarnham Educate Together National School
13th May at 2pm on Saturday 13th in Our Lady's Hospice Rose Garden, as part of Harold's Cross Festival.
14th May at 3pm on Sunday 14th in the army tent in Harold's Cross Park, as part of Harold's Cross Festival.
8 May 2017 – My poem 'Why Ajo Blanco? has been accepted by The Curlew.
3 May 2017 – 'A Ghazal of Exodus' is in the new issue of The Stinging Fly
18 April – Undercurrents has been awarded joint second prize by the Haiku Society of America for the 2016 Merit Book Award, a.k.a. Kanterman Award
Sara Keating's feature in The Irish Times, Saturday 15th April, all about The Lost Library Book:
"[The Lost Library Book is] … romantic in its celebration of knowledge and the artefact of the physical book; an idea that is greatly enhanced by Alice Durand-Wietzel's romantic illustrations. It is a great story that children, and their parents, will delight in reading, and its happy ending is, indeed, the stuff of fairytales."
My poem A Small Attendance in issue 12 of The Incubator, 15th April 2017
I will be reading in the walled garden in Farmleigh on Japan Day (23rd April) with Haiku Ireland and the Irish Haiku Society, along with fellow Touchstone shortlistee Sean O'Connor, and it is an honour to be launching Sean's book, Even the Mountains, on Poetry Day (27th April) in The Teachers' Club, 37 Parnell Square. We are both featured in The Nenagh Guardian this week.
Brian Hutton's feature about The Lost Library Book in the local quarterly:
My poem 'Cochlea' in the new issue of Skylight 47
Honoured that Undercurrents has been shortlisted for the Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. We have just gone into a third print-run.
I was interviewed by Anna Mooney about being published in your forties, for Aisling Grimley's excellent website My Second Spring.
11 March – a great day at The Irish Writers' Centre for the International Women's Day Readathon with Women Aloud NI
My article about The Lost Library Book is featured in the March/April issue of Books Ireland
The brilliant Numéro Cinq features my childhood memoir in the March edition – read it here:- Bad Weather Days
Reading at Ó Bhéal for the first time on Monday 27th February was a wonderful experience – lovely crowd, great hospitality, and delighted also with this piece by Deasúin MacBraoin in the Evening Echo
My poem 'Ghazal of Exodus' has been accepted by The Stinging Fly, which first published my poetry in 2012.
Delighted with how The Lost Library Book is looking, and it is now available for preorder from The Onslaught Press.
Participating in the Readathon for International Women's Day in the Irish Writers' Centre on Saturday 11 March.
I will be guest reader at Ó Bhéal on Monday 27th February.
My poem 'Cochlea' has been accepted for publication by Skylight 47.
3 February – I did a presentation on psychogeography, with readings from Undercurrents, for fifth-year geography students in The High School, Rathgar.
The Lost Library Book, The Onslaught Press, Spring 2017
My children's book illustrated by Alice Durand-Wietzel, will be published by The Onslaught Press this Spring, and launched in Marsh's Library on 6 May 2017.
'The remarkable true story of a forgotten library book that was returned to Marsh's Library after 100 years. Written with elegance and grace, it's a fascinating tale for book lovers young and old.' – Sarah Webb, Award-winning Writer, and Children's Curator of the Mountains to the Sea Book Festival
My poem 'A Small Attendance' has been accepted for the April issue of The Incubator.
Poetry Ireland Review 120 published, including my poem 'Complicit'.
The January issue of Contemporary Haibun Online went online on 19 December, including my haibun 'So Long', which is about Leonard Cohen and gannets.
Cyphers 82 arrived on 2 December, with my poem 'Bumblebees' in it.
My childhood memoir piece, 'Bad Weather Days', has been accepted by Douglas Glover for publication next spring in Numéro Cinq.
My haibun about Leonard Cohen and gannets, 'So Long', has been accepted for publication by Contemporary Haibun Online later this month.
Rachel Falconer's great collection Kathleen Jamie: Essays and Poems on her Work, in which my essay 'Transcending the Urban: The Queen of Sheba' appears, is to be digitised by Edinburgh Scholarship Online.
Poetry Ireland Review 120, Vona Groarke's last issue as editor, will include my poem 'Complicit'.
I was Poetry Section Editor of CBI's Reading Guide 2016/17
My 'Ballad of Mary Anne Cadden' was published in the October issue of political and cultural magazine The Village, and featured in the 'Rise and Repeal' broadsheet.

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Q: PageAdapter + VerticalViewPager NOT working Together. Why? I'm trying to figure out why my images within class CustomPagerAdapter mResources are NOT showing up once the VerticalViewPager widget appears -- nothing on start and nothing during vertical swipe.
I've been at it for a couple days but just cant crack it.  Doesnt help the documentation on ViewPager / Adapters isnt very clear.
Using - Nexus 6 AVD, minSdkVersion = 19
When i attempt to scroll up (single click from the bottom and swipe up all the way to the top) i then receive this error message...
*AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: sparktic.com.verticalviewpager, PID: 19242
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The specified child already has a parent. You must call removeView() on the child's parent first.
at android.view.ViewGroup.addViewInner(ViewGroup.java:3562)*

AFAIK i'm adding and removing pager_item correctly.
java/ MainActivity.java
package sparktic.com.verticalviewpager;

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v4.view.PagerAdapter;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity
{
    VerticalViewPager mPager;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mPager = findViewById(R.id.viewpager);

        CustomPagerAdapter adapter = new CustomPagerAdapter(this);
        mPager.setAdapter(adapter);
    }

    class CustomPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter
    {
        Context mContext;
        public LayoutInflater mLayoutInflater;

        int[] mResources = {
                R.drawable.first,  // Dload: https://i.imgur.com/suvAa9x.jpg
                R.drawable.second, // Dload: https://i.imgur.com/c2f0Hvy.jpg
                R.drawable.third   // Dload: https://i.imgur.com/0GAs8qp.jpg
        };

        public CustomPagerAdapter(Context context)
        {
            mContext = context;
            mLayoutInflater = (LayoutInflater) mContext.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount()
        {
            return mResources.length;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isViewFromObject(View view, Object object)
        {
            return  view == ((LinearLayout) object);
        }

        @Override
        public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup container, int position)
        {
            View itemView = mLayoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.pager_item, container, false);

            ImageView imageView = (ImageView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
            imageView.setImageResource(mResources[position]);

            container.addView(imageView);

            return itemView;
        }

        @Override
        public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object)
        {
            container.removeView((LinearLayout) object);
        }
    }
}

layout/ activity_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="sparktic.com.verticalviewpager.MainActivity">

    <sparktic.com.verticalviewpager.VerticalViewPager
        android:id="@+id/viewpager"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</RelativeLayout>

layout/ pager_item.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:id="@+id/imageView" />
</LinearLayout>

java/ VerticalViewPager.java
package sparktic.com.verticalviewpager;

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;

public class VerticalViewPager extends ViewPager
{

    public VerticalViewPager(Context context)
    {
        this(context, null);
    }

    public VerticalViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context, attrs);
        init();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canScrollHorizontally(int direction)
    {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canScrollVertically(int direction)
    {
        return super.canScrollHorizontally(direction);
    }

    private void init()
    {
        setPageTransformer(true, new VerticalPageTransformer());
        setOverScrollMode(View.OVER_SCROLL_NEVER);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev)
    {
        final boolean toIntercept = super.onInterceptTouchEvent(flipXY(ev));
        flipXY(ev);
        return toIntercept;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev)
    {
        final boolean toHandle = super.onTouchEvent(flipXY(ev));
        flipXY(ev);
        return toHandle;
    }

    private MotionEvent flipXY(MotionEvent ev)
    {
        final float width = getWidth();
        final float height = getHeight();
        final float x = (ev.getY() / height) * width;
        final float y = (ev.getX() / width) * height;
        ev.setLocation(x, y);
        return ev;
    }

    private static final class VerticalPageTransformer implements ViewPager.PageTransformer
    {
        @Override
        public void transformPage(View view, float position)
        {
            final int pageWidth = view.getWidth();
            final int pageHeight = view.getHeight();
            if (position < -1)
            {
                view.setAlpha(0);
            }
            else if (position <= 1)
            {
                view.setAlpha(1);
                view.setTranslationX(pageWidth * -position);
                float yPosition = position * pageHeight;
                view.setTranslationY(yPosition);
            }
            else
            {
                view.setAlpha(0);
            }
        }
    }
}

A: Solved my own problem.  In case it helps someone else...
the issue was within "instantiateItem" method.
container.addView(imageView); should have been container.addView(itemView);
I still dont have a solid grasp as to what is happening within the PageAdapter overrides but it works so i'll take the win and move on.

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Joseph, also known as, Joey, is a great kid. He can be shy when you first meet him but once he gets to know you, his personality shines through. He is talkative, funny and active. His favorite activities include practicing Tae Kwon Do and visiting amusement parks with his friends. Joey also loves California burritos and boasts that he knows everything about his favorite movie series, Star Wars.
Despite a number of disappointments in his young life, Joey remains optimistic and positive about his future. He believes that if he sets his mind to it, he can accomplish anything. He aspires to one day join the Navy so that he will have the opportunity to serve and protect his county.
Joey needs a family that will offer love, patience and remain committed to him as he continues to make positive strides in his behavior. It would also be important that his adoptive family be supportive of keeping him connected to his younger siblings.


The earliest accredited coins were made in he 7th century BC in Lydia (congruent with Turkey's modern provinces of Izmir and Manisa). These were small blobs of electrum, (a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver), and were decorated on one side only with the forepart of a bull, a lion or both; later a secondary design was added to the reverse. These images were impressed on the alloy by using a simple punch hit with a hammer.
Although these early coins were basic the benefits to trade were obvious, and the idea quickly spread from the kingdom of Lydia throughout Greece and then to the Roman world and Europe.
In Britain the first coins were produced in about 100 BC. The early struck coins were copied from gold staters of Philip II of Macedon. Some of these earliest British coins were cast in an alloy of bronze and tin known as Potin, but this method only lasted a few years when they were replaced by die struck coins. The cast coins were produced by the Durotrigian tribe in the west country and by the tribes living along the Thames valley. Different types of coin in gold, silver, bronze and potin were made by many of the Celtic tribes of Britain.
The Roman administration of Britain soon put a stop to the production of coins by the local tribes and imported Roman imperial coinage from the continent. The first Roman coin struck in Britain was issued by the Emperor Antoninus Pius in 155 AD. British coins continued to be issued by subsequent Roman emperors until possibly the reign of Magnus Maximus, 383 - 388 AD. As the Roman administration in Britain came to an end in 410, no further official British coinage was produced until about 620 AD. But at some time during the period 300 AD onwards crude copies of Roman coins, known today as barbarous radiates, were produced in great quantities.
Following the upheavals and collapse of Roman administration and the invasion and settlement of England by the Anglo-Saxons, coinage once again began to be produced in England in the form of gold thrymsas and silver sceats from 620 -765. However from 765 - 900 the production of sceats was confined to Northumbria where they became progressively debased from silver to small bronze coins known today as Stycas.
The penny was introduced in 765 AD and became the standard coin in England until 1279. The first round halfpenny was made around the year 883 and continued in production almost continually until 973 when, after the currency reform carried out by King Edgar, any halfpence required were made by cutting a penny in half.
The Viking king Guthram copied coins of Alfred the Great and established Viking coin production in the Danelaw - that part of England which was under Viking rule. The Vikings introduced the concept of the manufacture of coinage into Ireland around the year 1000 and then from there into the Isle of Man.
Anglo-Saxon coins were produced from just a small number of mints in the time of King Alfred. This was to increase gradually. In 973 King Edgar reformed the currency, producing only the silver penny with the king's head on one side (the obverse) and a cross on the reverse. It was from this time that the practice of cutting coins into halves and quarters began, using the cross on the reverse as a guide. By law, from this time, the mint signature and the name of the moneyer had to appear on every coin - previously this was at the discretion of the individual moneyers who made their own dies. The process of die cutting now became centralised and dies were sent out to the individual mints from a central die-cutting workshop. Later, five regional centres were established. By the reign of Aethelred II (978 - 1016) mints could be found in up to 90 different towns and cities.
The Norman conquest initially had no effect on the number of mints and moneyers producing coins, though towards the end of the reign of William I some new mints were established in Wales. The number of mints declined gradually during the period between the reigns of Henry I and Henry III (from 1100 to 1272), by the end of whose reign only 4 mints were operating.
Edward I reformed the mints and coins radically in 1279, putting all the mints under the control of one new official: The Master of the Mints. This position was filled by Sir William de Turnemire. During the reign of Edward I many old mints, and some new re-opened, allbeit briefly, to flood the country with the new coinage. In addition to the penny, round halfpence and farthings were stuck in great numbers to negate the old practice of cutting the coins into halves and quarters and the practice fell, very quickly, into decline. A new denomination of 4d was introduced, the groat or 'great piece'. This was the largest silver denomination produced in England until the introduction of the silver testoon or shilling in the reign of Henry VII. New die cutters were employed from the continent and a new style of coinage was produced, known as the Stirling issue, one that was to remain virtually unchanged until the Tudors.
The early dies were cut in either bronze or iron, and the designs were engraved into the die surface. The lower die (known as a pile) usually having the more complex design (usually the head) whilst the upper die (also known as the trussel) had the simpler reverse or tails.
During the Roman period a new innovation was tried: hinged coin dies which were pairs of dies joined together in a similar manner to tongs. This method continued into the Byzantine period but the concept seems to be confined to the Roman world.
The designs were cut into the die faces using either graving tools or simple punches such as a wedge, line, curve, dot or ring (annulet) These simple elements could be used to produce all the different letters and design elements on the die.
Anglo-Saxon dies were made from iron (steel) and were the traditional separate dies with the lower die set into a large wooden block (probably a section of tree trunk) and the upper die positioned by hand and hit with a hammer. The upper dies wore down quickly due to the action of hitting them with the hammer. A set of dies (two trussels and one pile) should produce on average £100 struck coin, that is 24,000 pennies.
The shape of the dies during the Anglo-Saxon period seems fairly standardised. Either round or square in cross section, but with parallel sides allowing the use of a 'striking collar' (used as a guide for the dies not the coin blank). This enables production of a well-struck coin, as is born out by the surviving specimens of coins from the period.
Later, during the Norman period the shape of the dies altered from parallel sided to tapered. These dies are easier to manufacture but the coins produced from this type of die tend to be poorly struck because a guide collar cannot be used with them. This is borne out by the lamentable condition of the copious surviving specimens of Angevin and early Plantagenet coins.
With the introduction of the groat and the halfgroat, these larger coins required greater striking pressure and thus greater wear to the trussel so the die sets for the larger denominations was three trussels to every pile. During the later medieval period the simple lettering and portraiture of the earlier period was replaced by the introduction, in the reign of Edward I, of complex punches, using single punchs to make one letter or portrait. By the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509) a realistic portrait of the king was being produced and by this time also the principal of producing a master matrix from which the working dies were made in total.
The value of a coin depended upon its weight and metal content. It was important to achieve a consistent thickness of coin and thus a uniformity of weight. In early times coin blanks were cast in clay moulds to produce relatively uniform beads of metal which would be struck on the coin dies.
In Saxon England the introduction of the penny necessitated the manufacture of thin coin blanks probably cut from thin silver sheet. Sometimes the sheet was cut into square blanks larger than the diameter of the coin and the coin cut out after striking. These would be struck on the dies and the coin cut out afterwards. This method would result in a greatly reduced die life. As the dies were expensive to produce then the procedure of cutting the blanks into a round disk prior to striking was preferable. Presumably a simple tool or cutter similar to a modern wad punch would have been used to cut the discs from thin sheet beaten out by hand on an anvil.
As the dies were expensive to produce then the procedure of cutting the blanks into a round disk prior to striking was preferable. Presumably a simple tool or cutter similar to a modern wad punch would have been used to cut the discs from thin sheet beaten out by hand on an anvil. This job would require a considerable degree of competence as the sheet would have to be of even thickness to ensure a consistency in the weight of the struck coin.
After cutting, the blanks would be annealed in the fire to soften them and quenched in a blanching solution, usually a dilute acid, to clean and whiten the blank in preparation for striking. During the 13th century, production of round farthings of small size (6-7 grains weight, 10 mm diameter) meant that blanks for these could be made by a process of shot casting. Molten metal was poured into a receptacle similar to a colander suspended over cold water. The droplets of metal which formed as it flowed through the colander into the water could then, because of their small size, be struck directly without any further treatment. As with the dies there was little change in the production of blanks from the 13th century until recent times. Although Leonardo da Vinci designed an automatic blank punch around 1500.
This changed little from the 7th century BC until the 16th century AD. The lower die was set into an anvil or block, the blank of coinage metal placed on the lower die, the upper die positioned on top of the blank by hand and then hit with a large hammer, forcing the dies together at about 20 ton per square inch (modern mint machinery operates at 120 ton per square inch.
This method was fine for the majority of coins produced, the larger bronze and silver coins of the Greek and Roman world needing two men to produce each coin; one using a two handed sledgehammer to provide the greater force needed for the larger coin and the other person holding the upper die in place (presumably with long handed tongs). It is quite probable that the bronze blanks were struck whilst they were red hot whilst silver and gold blanks would be struck cold.
The medieval mints were generally striking only silver and gold, which would be struck cold, so the illustrations of the workers placing the blanks do not show tongs being used. Each hammerman working at the dies could, given an adequate supply of blanks, strike 2,500 coins a day.
This method of coin production was fine until the reign of Elizabeth I when larger coins became economically necessary. In 1561 a Frenchman, Elois Mestrell, introduced the Horse Mill; a screw press powered by horses. This was the forerunner of the fly press and produced the first milled, or machine made, coins. This procedure was very slow, one coin every minute or so compared with one coin every six seconds with hand-struck coins.
Mestrell was dismissed from the mint in 1572 and in 1578 he was hanged for counterfeiting. By the reign of Charles I several new innovations had emerged. A fly press, rocker press and a roller press (similar to the old kitchen mangle). The coins from the rocker press were not satisfactory and the method was discontinued.
The roller press was used to strike impressions of farthings into long strips of copper alloy, which were subsequently cut out from the strip.
In 1663 in the reign of Charles II the hammered process of coin production was finally discontinued and was superceded totally by machine made coin. A new safeguard to prevent clipping of coin was introduced; the larger coins were made with an inscription around the rim of the coin. This edge inscription read DECVS ET TUTAMEM, An ornament and a safeguard other coins were given a grained or knurled edge.
In 1816 the royal mint, which had been situated at the Tower of London since 1279, moved to a new site on Tower Hill at Mint Street. It is now situated in Llantrisant, South Wales.


The camp of Mar Roxas has launched a massive black propaganda campaign against Vice President Jejomar Binay to divert the public eye away from the failures of the administration of President Benigno Aquino.
The Binay camp said recently-aired three television ads attacking the Vice President were handiwork of the administration party which is fielding Mar Roxas for President in the May elections.
"The apparent full-court press of the Liberal Party against the Vice President is a crude attempt to divert attention from (the Aquino administration's) utter failure to address poverty," said Binay spokesperson Rico Quicho in a statement.
Roxas is the presidential candidate of the ruling Liberal Party of Aquino, whom Roxas had served as Interior Secretary.
According to Binay's camp, the smear ads were aimed to discredit the Vice President, the standard bearer of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) who has been leading pre-poll surveys for President in the May elections.
"This administration has failed to uplift the lives of the poor because of its ineptitude and incompetence. No sugar coating or diversionary tactics will cover up these glaring facts," Quicho said.
Public frustration over the Aquino administration has been reflected in the poor showing of Roxas, Aquino's anointed candidate, in pre-poll surveys for presidential preference by both the Social Weather Station and Pulse Asia.
While Binay consistently topped the surveys, Roxas was the perennial bottom-dweller.
Binay has deplored as below-the-belt the latest political ads of Roxas which recently flooded tri-media including popular social networking sites.
Senator Nancy Binay said she expected the attacks against her father and the Binay family to intensify at the start of the campaign period next week.
The Senator urged people not to believe the negative political advertisements against her father.
"I hope our people who saw those ads don't believe in those kinds of smears," she said.
She said it was not in the character of Filipinos to destroy others adding that the Binay camp has been consistent in relaying the Vice President's message on how to help people and has never engaged in negative campaigning.
The camps of other presidential candidate have also lambasted Roxas for his television political ads.
In one ad, Roxas said he is not a "siga-siga" (bully) alluding to Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. Senator Grace Poe also hit Roxas for dragging her family in an ad of the Liberal Party bet.
The smear ads against the Vice President focused on allegations of corruption leveled against Binay, picking up issues raised at the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee which for nearly two years conducted 25 hearings on the allegations said to have been committed by Binay when he was the mayor of Makati City.
Binay has refused to attend the hearings saying that the Senate probe was part of "demolition by perception" designed to discredit his presidential bid.
Binay had said that he would rather face the charges in court than in the Senate subcommittee that he said was peopled by Senators out to boost their political stock at his expense.
The "black propaganda" heaped by Roxas camp against Binay, which drew negative reactions from the public, consisted of three 15-second ads.
Every video features a person asking Binay to respond to the accusations of unexplained wealth being thrown at him.
The last video is about the alleged overpricing of the Makati city hall parking building II. The Ombudsman found probable cause to file criminal charges against Binay, his son,dismissed Makati mayor Jejomar Erwin "Junjun" Binay Jr, and other Makati city hall officials over the project.
"Boss Binay, binoto kita at supporter mo ako. Dapat sagutin natin ang report ng COA (Commission on Audit). Ang report ay overpriced ng P1 billion ang Makati parking building. Dapat patunayan natin na 'di ka kurakot," a man in the ad said.


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#ReleaseBlitz "Hollywood Player" Alexa Aston
September 17, 2020 September 17, 2020 ~ Felicia Denise
Hollywood Name Game, Book 3
Date Published: September 17, 2020
She has zero friends . . . and is wary of men, living life as a recluse.
His only friend is 90 and when she dies, he's adrift.
Can a dyslexic actor and a shy loner find happiness together?
Famous from the time she was fourteen, London Russell lands the cover of Sports Illustrated to cap off her modeling career. Leaving the fashion world behind, she follows her dream of becoming a singer-songwriter. Thanks to an ex-boyfriend's vicious attack on her, London becomes a recluse who turns out hits but never tours—and can't trust a man. Her life changes course when she encounters a Hollywood screenwriter and director and agrees to write the theme song for their next movie.
Knox Monroe grew up as America's darling, a child actor featured on several popular television series. After his mother's betrayal, Knox drops out of sight, returning years later to make the successful transition to adult roles. A known womanizer and loner, Knox meets London by chance. Through her connections, he winds up with the lead role in a new movie.
Will London be able to open her heart and move past Knox's player reputation? And will Knox knock down the emotional fortress that he's built around his heart?
In Hollywood, anything's possible. . .
Hollywood Player is the third book in the Hollywood Name Game series. Each book in the series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.
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Hollywood Heartbreaker
From internationally bestselling romance author Alexa Aston comes a stunning new Contemporary Romance series. Book One in the exciting Hollywood Name Game series has arrived. Read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!
Being late to an interview lands her the biggest job opportunity of her life.
He may be rich and successful—but he's just this side of miserable.
Can a wannabe be The One for the biggest star in Hollywood?
Cassie Carroll came to Hollywood with big dreams that never materialized. Acting isn't even on the back burner anymore—it's completely off the stove. Working for a third-rate agent, Cassie hopes to land a new job that will give her credibility, as well as help pay the rent. Late to her interview, she swerves to avoid hitting a dog—and totals the car of Hollywood's leading action superstar. Surprisingly, she walks away from their encounter with a job—as the sexiest man alive's personal assistant.
Rhett Corrigan is bored with the movies he makes and the drop-dead gorgeous model he's dating. He's afraid that Hollywood has typecast him—and that he'll never be able to break out of his action mold and try new acting challenges. When Cassie Carroll literally slams into his life, she brings a breath of fresh air and common sense to his world. She pushes him to be a better actor and a better man
Can these friends become lovers—and can their love survive—in a tabloid-happy town that thrives on rumors and backstabbing?
Hollywood Flirt
From internationally bestselling romance author Alexa Aston – Book Two in the exciting Hollywood Name Game – a stunning new contemporary romance series. Read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!
She's Hollywood royalty whose trail vanished a dozen years ago.
He doesn't do relationships and thinks commitment is a four-letter word.
They Google each other . . . and sparks fly . . .
Sydney Revere, the daughter of a famous movie couple, left Hollywood behind over a decade ago. Christened The Wild Child by the media, she reinvents herself as a serious student who becomes an attorney and marries a safe, predictable man. When her husband cheats on her and the law loses its glitter, Sydney returns to Hollywood. Her father hires her to storyboard his upcoming movie, No Regrets—and then stuns Sydney when he offers her the job as his assistant director.
Dash DeLauria is a rising actor who hasn't trusted a woman since his mother left. He's now the guardian of his mentally-challenged brother. Dash is looking to grow professionally and after he wins the lead in No Regrets, he finds he's lost his heart and soul to Sydney. With both their careers on the upswing, life is sweet.
But Sydney's ex-husband isn't finished with her yet. Discovering who she really is—and that she's wealthy—he tracks her to California, ready to start over with her again.
No matter what it takes . . .
Hollywood Flirt is the second book in the Hollywood Name Game series. Each book in the series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed out of order.
Book 4 – Hollywood Double
Book 5 – Hollywood Enigma
"Bunker!"
London looked up and saw a dog bounding her way. Before she could react, the golden flash crashed into her table, spilling her glass of tea everywhere. She opened her mouth to speak and the dog jammed his nose into her crotch. Mortified, London tried to push it away.
"Bunker!" she heard a second time. Looking up, London saw Seth Walker dashing toward her, a leash with a dangling collar in one hand. No, not Seth Walker. The actor who played Seth Walker in her favorite movie franchise.
The one whose name escaped her as he arrived at her table.
His cobalt blue eyes looked even bluer against his tanned face and sun-kissed blond hair. If Adonis had come to life, he would be this man.
"I'm going to kill you," the actor growled, frowning at the dog. "I mean it."
The golden retriever buried his nose against her leg.
London burst out laughing.
"I apologize for my dog's lack of manners." He reach to latch onto the dog but Bunker was having none of it. He wriggled even closer to London, mashing her skirt against her. The man's hands froze. She knew he hesitated because it might be hard to get a decent grip on the dog without invading London's very personal space.
"I give up," he said in frustration. "Do you think you could help me out?"
"It's my favorite thing in life to help a man in need."
Wait . . . was she flirting? She never flirted. Ever. Ever. Ever.
He smiled then, exposing even, white teeth against his tan. Amusement lit his eyes.
"Hand it over." She reached out and he surrendered the collar, still attached to the leash.
She pried the dog's nose away from her and looped an arm about him as she slid the collar over his head and lowered it to where it sat loosely around his neck.
Bunker's owner knelt and tightened the collar. "I won't fall for that look again," he told the dog.
"What look is that?" she asked.
He grinned. "The pathetic one that tells me his collar is too tight. The one that got me to loosen it up, which was all the invitation he needed to slip out of it and make his way lightning fast to the most beautiful girl on the block."
London sensed the blush creeping up her neck. To distract herself, she reached out to pet the dog. Her fingers glided through his silky, golden fur.
"Mind if I sit?" the handsome actor asked.
"Be my guest."
He sank into the chair next to her and ran a hand through his thick hair. London suddenly wanted to run her fingers through his hair and not Bunker's. She averted her eyes and focused on the dog again.
"I owe you a drink. At the least. For Bunker's impertinence. And for making this mess." He glanced at his watch. "I guess it's too early for a glass of wine."
She grinned. "It's never too early for wine. I spent a lot of years in Tuscany. I'm surprised my father didn't give me wine in a sippy cup for breakfast."
He laughed and she liked how his eyes crinkled up when he did. How the smile touched his mouth as much as his eyes. Seth Walker didn't smile much on screen but this actor did in real life. It made her pulse quicken. Suddenly, she recalled his name. Knox. Knox Monroe.
"Then wine it is. Anything in particular strike your fancy in the middle of the afternoon?"
"I love a good red. No matter what time it is."
He gave her an appreciative nod. "A good red for a beautiful redhead. I like it."
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MinterEllison assists POSCO with Jupiter Mines relisting
by Steve Randall | 24 Mar 2018
A team from MinterEllison has advised multinational steelmaker POSCO on its interests in Jupiter Mines, which plans to re-list on the ASX.
Jupiter is a South African-focused producer of manganese and plans to return to the Australian Stock Exchange in a $240 million IPO having delisted in 2014. POSCO, headquartered in South Korea, owns 17% equity in Jupiter.
"This transaction is a rare relisting in the context of there being no controlling shareholder, but rather a group of eight 'big' minor shareholders," said MinterEllison partner Tom Shon. "Therefore, this structure required many months of complex negotiations between the parties to agree on terms of the relisting, all within the desired IPO window."
Shon was supported by Michael Scarf (Senior Associate), Sophia Bai (Associate) and Rosie Connolly (Graduate).
Asia Pacific firms set for divestment surge
Law firms in Asia Pacific should benefit from a surge in divestment by the region's companies according to a new survey from EY.
It found that 83% of Asia Pacific companies plan to divest in the next 24 months with advancing technology, changing customer needs, and tax policy changes among their key reasons.
"More than ever, corporate executives are asking themselves what they need to do to ensure their organization remains competitive in an environment of significant technological change and disruption," commented Stephen Lomas, EY Asia-Pacific Divestiture Advisory Services (DAS) Leader. "There is a sense of urgency amongst those executives who see technology altering the competitive landscape and recognize that their organization needs to adapt quickly."
Opportunistic, unsolicited bids are behind 71% of divestments.
Regional managing partner appointed at Clifford Chance
Charles Adams has been appointed regional managing partner for Continental Europe at international firm Clifford Chance.
He succeeds Yves Wehrli for a four-year term from 1st April 2018. Wehrli had completed the maximum number of terms but will remain as office managing partner in Paris.
Adams has many years of leadership roles at Clifford Chance and played a strategic role in the firm's expansion in the Americas.
Herbert Smith Freehills celebrates new office launch
The opening of a new office has been celebrated by Herbert Smith Freehills.
The Milan office opened for business earlier this year and partners Laura Orlando and Sebastian Moore, of Counsel Pietro Pouche and the rest of the firm's Italy team welcomed guests including clients to an evening of entertainment last week.
Ms. Orlando was previously head of Disputes and IP practices, and life sciences group at Simmons & Simmons in Italy.


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Imposter syndrome in academic libraries: Indigenous women edition
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This is a written proceeding of the LACUNY 2022 panel presentation "Imposter Syndrome in Academic Libraries: Indigenous Women Edition". The authors discuss personal instances and feelings of the imposter phenomenon (also known as imposter syndrome) as it may relate to their Indigenous identities. Additionally, the authors describe how imposter syndrome may affect their ability to be successful in their careers, and the internal pressure they feel to present a more Indigenous identity (whatever that may entail) for scholarship and positions. The authors also share their experiences with external pressures to exhibit a more "stereotypical Indigenous" appearance for the sake of their role as Indigenous library staff members, peers, or when applying for academic opportunities and how this relates when interacting with other Indigenous people through their work. They speak on the recent developments in academia in terms of hiring Indigenous peoples and avoiding "pretendians"(people who falsely claim to have Indigenous ancestry). The goal of the authors is to encourage discourse in the vein of Truth and Reconciliation and spreading awareness about imposter syndrome.
Bews, E., MacLeod, K., & Paul, B. (2023). Imposter syndrome in academic libraries: Indigenous women edition. Urban Library Journal, 28 (2). Retrieved from https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj/vol28/iss2/3
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Naledi inherits in Stonich ("These Granite Islands") a chronicler with storytelling gifts reminiscent of our most holy mother of the frozen north, Alice Munro. She has a similar flair for ferrying readers back in time for several pages, deepening our regard for a character, then softly dropping us back into the present without a moment's confusion or jostling. She's gentle that way.


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Walters J. (1978) The primary moult in four gull species near Amsterdam. ARDEA 66 (1-2): 32-47
In the Amsterdam-Zandvoort area in the Netherlands in 1976 and 1977 a study was conducted on the primary moult in Black-headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Herring Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls. Two methods were used: registration of primary moult score in recently dead gulls and collection of newly shed primaries. Special attention is paid to the identification of the primaries. A detailed description of the timing of the primary moult in adults and sub-adults is given. The average duration of the primary moult was 3 months in adult Black-headed, 4+ months in adult Common and 6 months in adult Herring Gulls. Sub-adults were earlier and had a shorter moulting period: 2+ months in Black-headed Gull and 4+ months in Herring Gull. The onset of the primary moult was not known for the Great Black-backed Gull, not breeding in the Dutch area, for the other three species earliest in the Herring Gull, slightly later in Common Gull and latest in Black-headed Gull. Practically all adult Herring Gulls started primary moult during the incubation of the eggs, much fewer adult Common Gull and practically no adult Black-headed Gull did so. The finish of the primary moult was earliest in adult Black-headed Gull, slightly later in adult Common Gull, still later in adult Herring Gull and latest in adult Great Black-backed Gull (until early January by the latest). Recent literature on the primary moult in gull species in northwest Europe combined with the present study does not present enough material from which definite conclusions on .any ecological or geographical differences can be drawn.


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Jese Sinks Plucky Ghana
4 Jun 24, 2013 - 10:29 pm
By Diogo Peral
A first-half goal from Jese proved to be enough as Spain grabbed a hard-fought 1-0 win over Ghana as they moved into the next round of the FIFA U20 World Cup in Turkey.
The young Black Stars made things far from easy for the Spaniards though, as they created a number of good chances but their failure to sink one saw them leave with nothing.
The decisive moment came just 13 minutes in when Jese slotted the ball into an empty net after Denis Suarez had done brilliantly on the left to beat his man and deliver an inch-perfect cross.
Ghana almost responded through Clifford Aboagye seven minutes later but Spain goalkeeper Daniel Sotres managed to hold on at the second attempt.
Suarez then wasted a glorious chance soon after when he was found inside the area but he somehow spooned his shot over from close range.
The Africans had the better of the second-half with Yiadom Boakye failing to hit the target from inside the area when it seemed easier to score.
Frank Acheampong then went close with a header in the 70th minute while Joseph Duncan's volley brought a smart save from the goalkeeper.
Despite some intense pressure from Ghana, they were unable to find an equaliser, meaning that they are unable to progress to the next round.
Jese Steals Win
Jese Inspires Spain Win
Jese Staying At Madrid


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Frédéric Gabin
Standardization Manager Media / 3GPP SA4 Chairman, Ericsson
Frédéric is Standardization Manager Media as part of the Ericsson CTO Standardization & Industry group. Frédéric has obtained a Master's degree in Electronics from the University of Paris VI in 1997 and a DEA degree of Digital Communication Systems from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications of Paris (now Telecom Paris-Tech), France in 1998.
Frédéric was Signal Processing Engineer at the Advanced Studies department in Nortel Networks in 1998 where he performed research and standardization work on speech and channel coding for 2G and 3G standards and products.
He joined NEC in 2001 as Senior Systems Engineer where he performed architecture and systems design work on 3G/2G dual mode terminal platforms. In 2003, he became manager of the NEC tech. UK standardization team Standards team and the 3G/4G Standardization and research projects.
Since 2007 with Ericsson Frédéric focused first on Mobile platform API standardization and was elected as Khronos OpenMax IL chairman. He then represented Ericsson at the IMTC Board of directors, at 3GPP SA4 as vice-chairman and subsequently chairman (since 2016) and Multicast-Broadcast Streaming sub-group chairman and at various other media related standardization groups and for a like e.g. ETSI, DVB, and EBU.
In 2019 Frédéric is chairman of the 3GPP SA4 Working Group, dealing with Codecs and Multimedia for the 5G standard. His focus areas are the specification of 5G Media streaming and support of Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality in 5G networks, and the organization of related events like the "Immersive Media meets 5G" 2nd Ecosystem and Standard Workshop that took place in Culver city, LA, California in April 2019.
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This is also a custom order called the Sun Moon Stars Ring. Customer supplied her own one karat diamond and all the gold for this ring.
Made a set of eight of these diamond rings for a group of young ladies using their Grandmothers anniversary band.
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I'm in central Texas and installed my first hive April 7. I did my first check this morning to make sure the queen was released (she was) and to refill the sugar water. I didn't look for the queen because I was a nervous wreck about doing something wrong or that I'd squish my precious queen.
But the bees all looked busy and happy. There did seem to be a number of bees stuck together between the frames, which I thought odd.
I'll check again in about a week when it's time to refill the syrup again.
Thanks for the step-by-step on setting up a hive.
Thanks for the update. Sounds like you're off to a good start.
There's usually no need to actually lay eyes upon the queen, so you were right not to rummage through the entire hive looking for her.
On your next inspection, though, you do want to verify that she's laying eggs. You still won't need to find her, but look for eggs in the bottom of the cells. If you spot eggs, that's good enough; no need to find the queen.
And my guess would be that the bees you found clinging together between frames were involved in comb-building.
Bees that are to generate wax will gorge on honey (or the feed you've supplied) cling to each other, and just hang in festoons between the frames while their wax glands secrete beeswax. So what you saw was perfectly normal.
I hope all continues to go well!
Two weeks later... I have eggs, larvae, and capped brood. So excited! Thanks for the information.


For those with small children, you know the struggle of constantly picking up toys that get tossed around the house. I usually have my oldest son pick up his stuff and put it in his room. He has some storage cubes and he knows where he's supposed to put his toys. I want to do the same with my youngest. But finding good-quality storage solutions that can survive toddlerhood can be tricky. Thankfully, Kaikai & Ash saved my day!
This is one row of 4 large baby blankets (mostly Tula) and I could easily fit 16 in there with room on top.
As soon as I took the first one out of the bag, I realized how much sturdier they were than the ones we had in our basement and in my oldest son's room. This was fantastic news because the ones in my 3-year-old's room are already misshapen and partially collapsed because we tend to overfill them. The Kaikai & Ash storage cubes also fold completely flat and because of their weight, they stay flat.
They were also BIGGER. The cubes measure 13″ x 13″ x 13″ and they fit perfectly in our IKEA shelves (which is essential, as we have them in practically every room.) This also means I've been able to put more toys/clothes/blankets in them than other cubes, which keeps more clutter off our floors.
The felt detail on the front is also well-constructed. They are sewn on and seem like they will stay awhile. Plus the designs are even more adorable in person. I had a hard time choosing because the colors are also so bright and playful. And I like that they are gender-neutral, which is not always the case when looking for children's room decor.
I didn't even push down on the stuffed animals or try to maximize the storage capacity to keep it realistic.
In the past, I've paid $5-$10 for cubes from IKEA, Target and Big Lots (the ones that are slowly falling apart.) Amazon sells these cubes for $18.95. That's a big price difference. But the quality is superb. If you're looking for toy storage that will last (as well as being used as a train/boat, building blocks, etc) I'd highly recommend these.
I wouldn't even limit these Kaikai & Ash storage cubes for just toys. My plan is to transition our guest bedroom into a travel-theme using elements from the nursery. I will definitely incorporate them because they don't look too babyish/kiddish. These storage cubes will be great for holding bath towels and extra sheets. They would also make a great base for a gift basket about travel-items or for a bridal shower with the honeymoon destination. I might also transition some to hold our travel items (noise-canceling headphones, battery chargers for phone, the latest Liane Moriarty novel, etc) so I can always find them before a flight.
with children's books and toys that we pick up on our upcoming trip. It's been fun teaching my 3-year-old about the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe just based on the felt appliques on the front of this box. He's also starting to name the letters in Bonjour Paris, which has been exciting!
Kaikai & Ash sent me the toy storage cubes in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
There are so many cute themes!
ooh how cute! I could use these in my kids rooms! They have so much stuff and I'm always looking for some cute DIY storage ideas! This is perfect!
YES! It's always nice to declutter!
I love those boxes. It's giving me a great idea for a DIY. I don't know if it'll come out as cute as yours, but it's worth the try. Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh my gosh, I LOVE these! I want them all for my house now. They are super cute.
I know, me too! They are seriously the cutest storage boxes I've seen!
If I order a set, can I get a cute baby in one, too? Adorable, love the cities idea!!
Hi there! These are adorable! My little one is only 3 months but between family and friends, he's already accumulating toys! I wasn't sure how to store them but this is a great idea!! I also love you're style of writing so I'm very happy to subscribe. I look forward to reading more!
It's crazy how quickly the toys accumulate! I felt like I was drowning in stuff with my oldest. Now I have a much better handle on things.
These are so darling and would be so cute in a babies room, or heck even my room!
They are very cute. We too have the ikea shelves and the multicoloured boxes that are brilliant but slowly falling apart. At the moment the little terror keep writing on the boxes so they look awful. Maybe when they get bigger and (hopefully) less inclined to Graffiti, these will be the ones to upgrade to!
Exactly! I plan on using them in other parts of the house, as they seem like they will hold up for years and years.
I literally SQUEALED when I saw these! They are so cute and are currently in my Amazon cart! I've been looking for some storage cubes for our playroom that are cute, but not too kiddish, and these are perfect. Thanks!
Yay! Glad I could help! I seriously squealed too when I first saw them! I mean, they are PERFECT!
Now isn't this a cool storage design! I love that it's all about different destinations! It's good for teaching kids about geography as well while making their room look goooood!
I love that they fit in baby/children's rooms as well as other parts of the house. Not too kiddish, but have a hint of fun!
Love these storage boxes, they are adorable! I love finding good things to help organize the house better!
Me too! I'm awful at cleaning, so these really help us keep toys off the floor when we're not playing with them.
Organizing at an early age, perfection! I am over organized, and this makes it fun AND educational.
It's a great way to teach kids to put their toys away when they are done. Plus, it's easy to describe which box to put them in because of the appliques.
Oh my gosh I adore these. Definitely the cutest storage cubes I have ever seen. So much better than the plain ones currently in my home.
I adore them, too! It's like they have sophisticated whimsy!
The Sydney one is one of my favorites, too! It's on our bucket list!
We could absolutely use more toy storage like these adorable toy cubes. Toys take up so much space in our home!
I was really impressed how much stuff I could fit in just one cube.
Forget the kids LOL! I want these for myself! I love them. I'd use them in one of our guestrooms or figure a way to implement them into the game room somehow!
They would be awesome for game room storage!
I'm a sucker for global themes, too! Anything to remind my family that there's a whole world outside!
Love these! My youngest is 8 and always talked about traveling to all these places! I think I'm going to order these for her and glad that they would fit in her IKEA shelves! Thanks so much for sharing! Love the pic with your little cutie in it!
She'll love them! Plus, they are sophisticated enough to "grow" with her into her tween and teen years.
Those storage bins are so cute. I don't have any kids but I want them for myself!
I would have gotten them regardless of kids! Such a fun way to store stuff!
I love storage cubes! They're perfect for everything really. These ones are so cute too.
And they fit a lot of stuff! It's the only way I feel organized!
These would be great in our playroom. And your baby is ADORABLE!!
They are perfect for playrooms. And Thanks!
Wow! I'm absolutely flattered. I hate to post because it might come across commercial. But honestly, I'm so appreciative of everyone's comments that I just had to say THANK YOU. You guys inspire us to keep designing more, and more Cities are coming indeed – San Francisco, LA, Chicago, Miami, Athens, Bangkok, Jerusalem, Berlin, and more. Have a great day everyone. And Marcie! You Rock!! Keep on chugging and traveling with that handsome little man in tow.


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Fish Cube
Fisher 2A bandaged Fisher cube.
Fisher Axis CubeA Fisher Cube with a tilted axis.
Fisher CubeTaking the concept of the Rubik's cube and turning it 45 degrees.
Fisher Cube Hexagonal DipyramidA Fisher Cube truncated into a hexagonal dipyramid.
Fisher Cube IIAn extensions only Fisher Cube.
Fisher CuboctahedronA Fisher Cube truncated into a cuboctahedron.
Fisher Cutter CubeThe concept of the Wall cube implemented with a Fisher 3x3x3.
Fisher Cylinder A fisher cube modified into the shape of a cylinder.
Fisher DNA CubeThe MFJS Fisher DNA cube combines the concepts of Fisher Cube, Mirror Blocks, and Eitan's Twist.
Fisher Five-Sided Sharp CubeA fishered version of an earlier shape variant
Fisher IcosahedronA Fisher Cube truncated into an icosahedron.
Fisher Mirror CubeA Fisher Cube elongated on one side and truncated on the opposite.
Fisher Mirror House CubeA Fisher Mirror Cube transformed into the shape of a house.
Fisher Octagonal PrismA Fisher Cube truncated back again into an octagonal prism but on a different set of edges.
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Mohammed Awzal (in het Berbers: Muḥemmed Awzal) (1680-1758) was een Berberse poëet. Hij wordt beschouwd als de meest belangrijke schrijver in het Tashelhiyt (het Berbers van centraal en zuidelijk Marokko). Hij werd geboren in 1680 in een klein dorp in de Sous regio van Marokko.

Weinig is bekend van zijn leven. Mogelijk moest hij als jonge man zijn woonplaats verlaten, als gevolg van een conflict, waarna hij zich vestigde in Tamegroute. Deze Berberse stad stond in die tijd bekend als bolwerk van het Sufisme. Hier begon hij met het volgen van religieuze studies en schreef hij zijn eerste werken (in het Arabisch). Op een gegeven moment verliet hij Tamegroute om terug te keren naar zijn geboorteplaats. Zijn leermeester (ene Ahmed) zag daar zijn talent voor het schrijven van poëzie en moedigde hem aan om hier werk van te maken. Hier begon hij met het schrijven in de Berberse taal. Zijn tweede werk, Bahr ad-Dumu ('De Oceaan van Tranen'), een theologisch en filosofisch, poetich getint werk, wordt gezien als het hoogtepunt in de Berberse literatuur.

Zijn werk is van groot belang, omdat de Berberse taal zelden gebruikt werd voor het schrijven van teksten. Berberse auteurs gebruikten meestal het Arabisch om hun ideeën op papier te zetten. Zo kennen wij slechts één Berberstalige boek dat vóór de 15e eeuw geschreven is, namelijk een historisch werk over de verovering van het Iberisch schiereiland (de Ajbar Machmua/11e eeuw). Bekend is dat veel werken vernietigd of verdwenen zijn, door verwijzingen ernaar in Arabischtalige werken. Zo vond onder de Almohaden een explosie plaats in het gebruik van de Berberse taal voor de administratie van het rijk en voor religieuze rituelen.

Bijna een derde van alle Berberse literaire werken (die de tijd hebben doorstaan) bevatten verwijzingen naar het werk van Awzal. De langste tekst in de Berberse taal is een commentaar op zijn al-Hawd, geschreven door Hasan el Tamuddizti in 1898.

Berberse literatuur

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