April’s Irish Times Books Podcast features interviews with Sinéad Gleeson about her acclaimed collection of personal essays, Constellations, and Sarah Davis-Goff, co-founder of Tramp Press, about her own first novel, Last Ones Left Alive, a dystopian novel set in the west of Ireland in the near future. Gleeson, a long-time presenter of the Book Show on RTÉ Radio, has edited two influential anthologies of short stories by Irish women writers, The Long Gaze Back and The Glass Shore. Now she makes her debut as an author in her own right with Constellations, a collection of essays about the female body, hew personal experiences and her reading of the works of other female artists. Since it was set up in 2014, Tramp Press has achieved phenomenal success, despite or perhaps because it has published so few titles, just two or three a year. Here she talks to Laura Slattery.

Source: The Irish Times April 13, 2019 04:52 UTC