Karl MacDermott: Over the last 40 years, as a writer of all trades – radio, TV, theatre, novels – and master of not so many, the one writing area I’ve never attempted is poetry
Over the last 40 years, as a writer of all trades – radio, TV, theatre, novels – and master of not so many, the one writing area I’ve never attempted is poetry. That omission has now been semi-rectified with my new book Fail Again Fail Even Better – The Struggles of An Obscure Irish Poet.
I say semi-rectified because although the work delves into the world of justifiably ignored but doggedly persistent Galway-born poet Bosco Helly, none of his poems make an appearance in the actual book. Which is probably just as well. As a poet, he’d be more William McGonagall than William Butler Yeats, but that hasn’t stopped him releasing nearly 40 volumes of poetry in over three decades.
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