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Originally publishing in Catflap magazine (November 2021) There were two reasons I became a champion tree climber as a child. Firstly, because I loved it, the shapes of the branches and glow of the leaves when the light came through, the whisper of the breeze like the promise of something magical about to happen. Secondly, …
For every person I’ve met proclaiming the necessity for real art, I’ve met at least two more people too terrified to share their passion. Asking a young writer, still trying to find their voice in a world of such infinite mass media and “content”, to compare themselves to James Baldwin… That seems unfair. Either shape a generation or shut up? Should we be joking at a time like this?
My mother says when her hands are inside the soil that is how she goes to church. It took me two decades to really understand. It took me finding my own piece of land. Five square feet of neglected backyard, but it was mine Well, it was rented and not for a particularly long time …
Orla ní Dhúill 