Galway Public Libraries for BOOKS and IDEAS.

Readers may be interested in the following books, which have been added to stock at Galway City Library:

Piotr Sommer.

Things to Translate, by Piotr Sommer

Piotr Sommer has been described as the great poet of 'everyday loneliness'. Born in Walbrzych, Poland in 1948, his poetry is marked by tender attention to everyday things and a desire to elevate routine situations. He remembers his first English-language book of poetry, 'The Mersey Sound', which featured the Liverpool poets of the 1960s, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Adrian Henri. Under Communism he was not allowed to go abroad, couldn't go to Bulgaria for a two-week holiday with his wife and son, etc, but a very important part of his life happened to be in that period. He reads at Cúirt in April.

A Hundred and One Days, by Asne Seierstad

This is a testament to Seierstad's stamina for seeking out the Iraqi point of view. It includes the voices of all sorts of people, stockbrokers, booksellers, a gravedigger, a Shia cleric and children. Sierstad knew her task was not to judge but to look, ask and report. Her advantage was that she was there. Her ears were there. Her eyes were there. She is an exquisite storyteller. This book's pacing, defined by the impending American invasion, is one of its many strengths. Seierstad writes in present tense, enhancing the book's riveting immediacy. She read at Cúirt next month.

The Judas Eye: Poems, by Breyten Breytenbach

South African writer and anti-apartheid activist, speaking in 2004, said that "if a French filmmaker releases a film at the moment in France, he will be lucky to have that film showing in something like 150 theatres, while the worst possible junk coming out of Hollywood will immediately be shown in thousands of theatres around France, mainly because theatres have been bought up by international companies that are controlled financial interests...in other words, if I'm strong enough to take you over and wipe you out, I should be allowed to do so." Breytenbach reads at Cúirt in April.

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