Gerard Kelly's Blog, page 5
October 14, 2013
September 27, 2013
Have You Discovered Medium?
www.medium.com is a new platform for writers – at least for those whose attention span can get past 140 characters. Describing itself as ‘a better place to write and read things that matter’, Medium is the brainchild on Twitter genius E V Williams, who seems to want to do for writers what Tumblr has done for […]
For all writers…
Beautiful words brought to us by the late Dennis Hopper… take a moment to watch this all the way through for inspiration, motivation and the courage to be the writer you are called to be.
September 24, 2013
May the Dreams You Dream…
Just found this on file – this is a poem I wrote for Jon and Anna’s wedding back in May… May the dreams you dream be deeper than your sleeping: May you wake To find a world That’s deeper still May the joys you share be wilder Than your weeping Each wound rewound Each […]
September 4, 2013
September 2, 2013
Llandewi, France
Researching for a novel, especially around the history of a place, is like peeling back the layers of an onion. Just when you think you’ve found the heart, something deeper and more wonderful emerges. I found out this year the origin of the name ‘Portivy’, the village in which much of ‘The secret life […]
On Honeymoon with Heaney…
Honeymoon Flight – Seamus Heaney From Death of a Naturalist, 1966 This is my other favourite Heaney poem. The last line always grabs me, but so does ‘we hang, miraculous, above the water’. The man was a master…
August 31, 2013
August 30, 2013
Jairus News 5: The Cutting Room Floor
My first-option publisher is out of the race, but the Jairus journey goes on… The working title for the novel is now The Secret Life of Rain and another major publisher is looking at it. Their first response was complimentary and encouraging, but also honest. The book is too long. And therefore too slow. In layman’s terms, [...]
Digging Heaney
One of the truly great poets of recent generations died this morning in Dublin. Seamus Heaney was critically acclaimed and extremely popular. His books accounted for two-thirds of the sales of all living poets in the UK: a remarkable achievement. He was also a humble man. He signed his early works Incertus, Latin for ‘uncertain’. When [...]
