INKROCI N.29 – JUNE 2018
Stories
Flora Pezzotti – A Meeting (dialogue)
“Excuse me, madam, may I sit here?”
“Please sit down.”
“Do you love this opera too?”
“I love in particular all operas.”
“I've never seen you here.”
“I only...
H.G. Wells – The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for...
Words from Ireland
Interviews
The future is a bad path – Interview with seven writers...
To celebrate the release of the two anthologies curated by Gian Filippo Pizzo – La cattiva strada (The Bad Path), published by Delmiglio, and...
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EDITORIAL
Afric McGlinchey – ‘Literary Jury Duty’: Why Reviewing Matters.
I’m guessing that most reviewers are themselves poets. Many of us know that heart-in-mouth feeling of waiting for the critic’s verdict, the one that...
COVER
COMICS
Literatures
Stephen Byrne – Because You’re A Girl
you will bring life
into this world,
only to lose yours.
Because you’re a girl
you will suffer mutilation
to bleed & scream for a month.
Because you’re a girl
you...
Stephen Byrne – A Father Calls to his Child on Liveleak
In memoriam 513 Children Gaza 2014
Wake up child wake up
cries the father to his child
beneath the torn & tattered building
within the dust &...
Stephen Byrne – Raise Your Heads
stop looking at the ground
stop glaring at your phones
stop hiding under rocks
stop drowning beneath the sea
stop avoiding the eyes
of someone in need
stop social media...
Mary Stewart – The Merlin trilogy
“My Lord, when you look for what I am looking for, you have to look in strange places. Men can never look at...
Stephen Byrne
Stephen Byrne is a chef and writer originally from Dublin and now lives in Chicago. His debut book Somewhere but not Here was selected...
Bobbie Sparrow – Beat the same drum
It’s not enough to suckle and rear
two sons who have never been here
before nor will ever be seen again
it’s not enough to hold a...
Reviews
Augusto De Angelis – The Murdered Banker – Six Women and a Book
In The murdered banker, commissioner Carlo De Vincenzi, a careful investigator of human nature, must...
A Dangerous Toy
A Dangerous Toy is a film that suffers from the climate of insecurity typical of...
Catherine Dunne – The Walled Garden
Beth, who has left Ireland and her family to find her own independence in London,...
Morrissey – Low in High School
Names such as the Smiths and Morrissey, may say little or nothing to today's listeners,...
William Dalrymple – Return of a King
William Dalrymple, an expert on the Indian sub-continent (In India and Delhi are two great...
Erri De Luca – The Opposite of One
"The opposite of one" is a collection of autobiographical stories that opens with a small...
Aoibheann McCann – Marina
Marina enters the world experiencing a trauma: the trauma of separation from a submarine world,...
Leonardo Sciascia – Black on Black
“The emperor is naked”, the intellectual said
Black on Black was published in 1979, when...
Mauro Covacich – The Bride
Seventeen stories of admirable normality
This collection of seventeen stories features, among them, attacks perpetrated...
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
If Charles Dickens were a season, he would be autumn, and if he were a...
