Is there a market for dark Poetry in Ireland?
You’re right. I AM scared. Sorry. I’m just a watcher. The lovely people at the Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin (before it got bought out by the corporate blandness that is the Thomas Read Group) used to have poetry evenings and the like for aspiring writers – not rubbishy stuff, but proper writers. Brendan Kennelly & Ben Kiely used to attend occasionally, and a few characters from the Dublin lit scene. It might be worth checking out, or if you’re still in Cork, there’s surely a similar sort of hub for artistic types. Secondhand bookshops are usually where the diehards hang out. Alternatively, you could try a small publishing house, like: http://www.lilliputpress.ie/ or http://www.oaktreebooks.
