Live Encounters Books August 2020

JEAN O’BRIEN Jean O’Brien’s collection, her New & Selected Fish on a Bicycle (Salmon 2016 reprint 2018) was her fifth, a new collection is due in 2021. She has received many awards, including the prestigious Arvon International Award, The Fish International, and has been highly commended in the Forward Prize and placed in others. She was awarded a Patrick & Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship. Her work appears in many magazines, anthologies and regularly on radio. She has taken part in public art in the Epic Museum and Poetry on the Dart transport (2019). She holds a Masters in creative writing, Trinity College, Dublin. www.jeanobrien.ie

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Live Encounters Books August 2020

Articles inside

James Walton Review of John Maxwell O’Brien’s Aloysius The Great

Terry McDonagh Review of Jack Grady’s Resurrection

M Heath Beckett Review of Yuyutsu Sharma’s Quaking Cantos

Dr Mary O’Donnell Review of Jean O’Brien’s Lovely Legs

Dr Siobhán Campbell Review of Jean O’Brien’s Fish on a Bicycle

Fiona Clark Echlin Review of Michael Durack’s Flip Sides

Amélie Frank Review of John FitzGerald’s The Mind

Rex Wilder Review of John FitzGerald’s Favorite Bedtime Stories

Penelope Moffet Review of Robbi Nester’s Narrow Bridge

Elizabeth Cohen Review of Hélène Cardona’s Life in Suspension

Thomas McCarthy Review of Hélène Cardona’s Dreaming My Animal Selves

Lisa C Taylor Review of Geraldine Mills’ Bone Road

Mary Esther Judy Review of Geraldine Mills’ Gold

David Morgan Review of Dr Greta Sykes’ The Defeat of Gilgamesh

Carolyne Van Der Meer Review of Michael Farry’s Troubles

Chris Kinsey Review of Dr Mary O’Donnell’s The Ark Builders

Damian Smyth Review of DrMary O’Donnell’s Those April Fevers

John Liddy Review of Anton Floyd’s Falling into Place

Michael Dennis Review of David Rigsbee’s This Much I Can Tell You

George Elliott Clarke Review of Anna Yin’s Seven Nights With The Chinese Zodiac

Jack Grady Review of Terry McDonagh’s Fourth Floor Flat

Atman Mehta Review of Randhir Khare’s Memory Land