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New and Renewed Poems 1967-2004

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New and Renewed Poems 1967-2004 Dublin, New Island Books 2004 ISBN 1904301568 PRICE: €9.99 New and Renewed can be ordered from New Island Books. Such exceptional talent – Samuel Beckett NEW AND RENEWED Poems 1967-2004 Review by Philip Casey The Irish Independent 23 Oct 2004 Brian Lynch’s poetry and its rhythms have beguiled me since [...]

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PLAYTIME

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PLAYTIME Dublin, RHA Gallagher Gallery and New Island Books 1997 Cover Painting by Gene Lambert This book has a troubled history. Gene Lambert, who had heard me read from ‘Pity for the Wicked’ at the Dun Laoghaire poetry festival, suggested including in the book the section referring to the murder of Margaret Wright. I agreed [...]

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A VIVID PICTURE, by Katie Moten

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THE WINNER OF SORROW Brian Lynch Published October 11, 2005 New Island Books ISBN: 9781905494255 PRICE: €11.99 RTE.ie Entertainment – online review A VIVID PICTURE 8 December 2005 The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch New Island. In his first novel, poet, screenwriter and art critic Brian Lynch takes on the story of William Cowper, [...]

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MADMAN AND THE LADIES by Thomas Kilroy

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THE WINNER OF SORROW Brian Lynch Published October 11, 2005 New Island Books ISBN: 9781905494255 PRICE: €11.99 The Irish Independent Saturday 22 October 2005 MADMAN AND THE LADIES by Thomas Kilroy Brian Lynch is an exceptional Irish writer. Not only because of the quality of his writing but because he stands outside the circuit of [...]

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from The Cowper and Newton Museum Bulletin Spring 2006, by Tony Seward

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THE WINNER OF SORROW Brian Lynch Published October 11, 2005 New Island Books ISBN: 9781905494255 PRICE: €11.99 from The Cowper and Newton Museum Bulletin, Spring 2006 Brian Lynch, The Winner of Sorrow: a Novel (Dublin: New Island, 2005) ISBN 1 904301 80 0, paperback, 338 pages Brian Lynch is an Irish poet and scriptwriter: this [...]

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‘When snatched from all effectual aid, we perish, each alone’, by Siobhan Hegarty

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THE WINNER OF SORROW Brian Lynch Published October 11, 2005 New Island Books ISBN: 9781905494255 PRICE: €11.99 The Sunday Independent Sunday January 08 2006 ‘When snatched from all effectual aid, we perish, each alone’ by Siobhan Hegarty IN The Winner of Sorrow, an extraordinary excursion into the mind of an 18th-Century English poet, author Brian [...]

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Perception of a wonderful kind, by Rachel Andrews

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THE WINNER OF SORROW Brian Lynch Published October 11, 2005 New Island Books ISBN: 9781905494255 PRICE: €11.99 The Sunday Tribune Perception of a wonderful kind Rachel Andrews The Winner Of Sorrow By Brian Lynch New Island 14.99 340pp BRIAN Lynch’s elegantly weaved novel about the life and times of English 18th century poet and confirmed [...]

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MAD LIKE US NORMAL FOLKS, Arminta Wallace

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THE WINNER OF SORROW Brian Lynch Published October 11, 2005 New Island Books ISBN: 9781905494255 The Winner of Sorrow can be ordered from New Island Books. PRICE: €11.99 The Irish Times Saturday, October 29, 2005 MAD LIKE US NORMAL FOLKS Arminta Wallace “It was the first day of a new century and in East Dereham [...]

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NEW AND RENEWED Poems 1967-2004 Review by Philip Casey

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NEW AND RENEWED Poems 1967-2004 Review by Philip Casey The Irish Independent 23 Oct 2004 Brian Lynch’s poetry and its rhythms have beguiled me since reading a poem called Panic Stricken Love in his chapbook Outside the Pheasantry, (1975). This poem was included in his collection Perpetual Star (1981), as Panic Stricken, and here it [...]

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