Quite recently PEN International upgraded their website , with a new structure and media centre, all the usual PEN links for those who wish read on issues of advocacy and freedom of speech are carried on the new site. The whole encompasses a variety of interests for our Irish PEN members, …
Calling Irish Poets and PEN members, a note about The Festival International de la Poésie
Our festival started in 1985. This will be the 28th September in 2012. It is one of the five largest events in the world of poetry, and one of the best organised. More than 100 poets from the 5 continents have participated every year since 1989. The city of Trois Rivieres …
Launch of “Unsweet Dreams” by Anne Le Marquand Hartigan 7th December, IWC.
In Anne Le Marquand Hartigan’s Unsweet Dreams complex ideas explode like thought-bombs in the simple language of everyday talk. The musicality of the poems owes much to the subtle and complex use of rhythm. Here are poems on a wide variety of topics, and in a wide range of styles. The mood and …
PEN American Center : Literature Knows No Frontiers: John Galsworthy and the Shaping of PEN.
The 90th Anniversary of International PEN occurs in 2012. This archive piece by PEN American Center sets out some of the history of International PEN. International PEN has much to celebrate with 20,000 writers in 100 countries keeping in touch through conference, committee and widespread use of social-media. I am including as link , a monthly letter …
International PEN statement of condolence regarding events in Norway.
PEN International is deeply distressed by the events in Oslo and Utoeya Island on 22 July 2011 “Our thoughts are with Norwegian PEN, its members, our friends and supporters at the Fritt Ord Foundation, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cities of Refuge Network, and Norwegian publishers as well as …
