Doors Into The Dark
I'm doing a reading in Queens Film Theatre on Saturday as part of the Doors Into The Dark symposium for the Seamus Heaney Centre. My own section is titled In A Glass Darkly: Irish Horror, Page and Screen . The title is not mine, and doesn't really work for "the page" aspect of it. But ho hum. I'm sharing my segment with a film making academic, Mervyn Marshall, and the division of labour very much favours the younger man (who is very much not me). I'm doing a reading of a part of my new novel, How Ghosts Affect Relationships , and then a, slightly abridged, version of my top pop hit, The Wink and The Gun . So I'll be reading for the best part of 40 minutes, while Mervyn just has to press play twice. Actually, we'll be in a cinema. There'll be someone else doing it for him. Clever boy. Then there's a Q&A, chaired by another academic, Lucy Baxter, and finally questions from the audience, should there be any. Questions or audience. There wil...
