Pratik Magazine: Celebrating Irish Muse launch in Dublin, Sligo and Sydney

DUBLIN

Thursday,  14 November: Dublin Launch of Pratik: Celebrating Irish Muse 6.30pm-8.30 pm with Jean O'Brien, Nessa O'Mahony, Eleanor Hooker, Anne Fitzgerald, Judith Mok, Jack Grady and Gerard Beirne at 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, D01 E102, Phone: (+353) 1 872 1302, info@writerscentre.ie, https://irishwriterscentre.ie/products/launch-pratik-journal, Book signing follows the reading, EVENT FREE

SLIGO

Saturday, 16, November, 5 pm, Sligo Launch of Pratik Magazine from Nepal - Irish Poetry Issue Public, Elenaor Hooker, Fred Johnston, , Nuala O'Connor, Gerard Beirne at The Yeats Building, Sligo, Hyde Bridge, Abbeyquarter North, Sligo, Ireland, FREE Hosted by Creative & Academic Writing with Gerard Beirne

SYDNEY/AUSTRALIA

Saturday,16, November, Irish poetry joint launch: Blue Nib & Pratik international lit magazines, 5:00 -8 pm With readings by Peter Bakowski, Anne Casey, Ali Whitelock, Richard James Allen and others. Garden Lounge creative space, Shop 1, 481 King Street, Newtown, New South Wales 2042, Australia https://www.facebook.com/events/703770450128716/

Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, Edited by Yuyutsu Sharma, Issue XVI/1, 2019

with a special Focus on Irish Poetry  curated by Hélène Cardona. Celebrating Irish Muse, 18 Poets from Ireland: Martina Evans, Thomas McCarthy, Eavan Boland, Steven O'Brien, Nuala O'Connor, Gerard Beirne, Elenaor Hooker, Tess Gallagher, Jack Grady, Nessa O'Mahony, Anne Casey, Fred Johnston, Mary Noonan, Patrick Cotter, Jean O'Brien, Anne Fitzgerald, Paul Casey, Judith Mok. Also featuring 10 Poets from Europe's Cultural Compass along with 11 Long Island Poets celebrating the 200th birthday anniversary of Walt Whitman. 

Pratik is a purely non-profit literary publication and is published by White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu. Pratik has been publishing significant Nepalese voices from Nepal and abroad for last two decades. It has published works by distinguished authors from all over the world and published Special Issues focused on Contemporary British and Dutch Poetry. It has also carried special segments on Swedish, Lithuanian, Chinese, Indian, Ukrainian, French and Russian Poetry. Pratik is published quarterly.

CONTENTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE

Celebrating Irish Muse

EIGHTEEN POETS FROM IRELAND

Martina Evans, Thomas McCarthy, Eavan Boland, Steven O'Brien, Nuala O'Connor, Gerard Beirne, Elenaor Hooker, Tess Gallagher, Jack Grady, Nessa O'Mahony, Anne Casey, Fred Johnston, Mary Noonan, Patrick Cotter, Jean O'Brien, Anne Fitzgerald, Paul Casey, Judith Mok.

“Doorway at Dusk: From Jeddah to New York”

American painter Vivian Tsao's on her evolution as an Artist

EUROPEAN CULTURAL COMPASS

FEATURING TEN POETS

Aurėlia Lassaque – French-Occitan, Lászlo Sárközi – Hungarian-Roma, Edvīns Raups – Latvian, Adrian Oproiu – Romanian, Leta Semadini – German / Rhaeto-Romanic,  Pierre Voėlin – Swiss-French, Anahit Hayrapetyan – Armenia,  Vincenzo Bagnoli – Italian, Mandy Haggith – Scottish, İlhan Sami Çomak– Turki

ELEVEN LONG ISLAND POETS

ON WALT WHITMAN

Celebrating 200th Birth Anniversay of the American Bard

Peter V. Dugan, Barbara Novack, Mindy Kronenberg, Claire Nicolas White, Herb Wahlsteen, Kelly J Powell, Dd. Spungin, Linda Trott Dickman, Barbara Southard, Robert Savino, Ginger Williams

BOOK REVIEWS BY  JULIE WILLIAMS-KRISHNAN AND ROBERT MUELLER

Plus All Regular Columns

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