Eimear Laffan
@eimearlaffan.bsky.social
Words & Such | aboutness (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023)
Reposted by Eimear Laffan
Faced with the unutterable, words still disintegrate . . .
And ever new, out of the most quivering
stones, music builds her divine house in useless space.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
(tr. A. Poulin, Jr.)
And ever new, out of the most quivering
stones, music builds her divine house in useless space.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
(tr. A. Poulin, Jr.)
January 14, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Faced with the unutterable, words still disintegrate . . .
And ever new, out of the most quivering
stones, music builds her divine house in useless space.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
(tr. A. Poulin, Jr.)
And ever new, out of the most quivering
stones, music builds her divine house in useless space.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
(tr. A. Poulin, Jr.)
always the something else, the something other...
The Triggering Town was a game changer for me when I was starting out. This is the passage I always point out to beginners.
September 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
always the something else, the something other...
Who we should be reading now: Kafka.
September 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Who we should be reading now: Kafka.
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After Lu Yu
Road dust & winestains
on my clothes, a
long journey, everywhere
reminded of things.
What does it take to
be a poet? In the drizzle I
ride my donkey
through the Saber Gate.
-Michael O'Brien
Road dust & winestains
on my clothes, a
long journey, everywhere
reminded of things.
What does it take to
be a poet? In the drizzle I
ride my donkey
through the Saber Gate.
-Michael O'Brien
September 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
After Lu Yu
Road dust & winestains
on my clothes, a
long journey, everywhere
reminded of things.
What does it take to
be a poet? In the drizzle I
ride my donkey
through the Saber Gate.
-Michael O'Brien
Road dust & winestains
on my clothes, a
long journey, everywhere
reminded of things.
What does it take to
be a poet? In the drizzle I
ride my donkey
through the Saber Gate.
-Michael O'Brien
Reposted by Eimear Laffan
“Why else keep a journal, if not to examine your own filth?”
– Anne Sexton
– Anne Sexton
September 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“Why else keep a journal, if not to examine your own filth?”
– Anne Sexton
– Anne Sexton
"I lived in the first century of world wars.
Most mornings I would be more or less insane."
— Muriel Rukeyser
Most mornings I would be more or less insane."
— Muriel Rukeyser
August 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"I lived in the first century of world wars.
Most mornings I would be more or less insane."
— Muriel Rukeyser
Most mornings I would be more or less insane."
— Muriel Rukeyser
Note to everyone out there writing their master tome
remembering how you once told me that inside every 500 page book there is a 100 page book
July 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Note to everyone out there writing their master tome
"Moral certainty only makes shit art"--Eimear McBride
New online! Tolka editor Liam Harrison interviewed Eimear McBride about her latest novel, The City Changes Its Face, a sequel-of-sorts to The Lesser Bohemians. They talk adaptation, influences, and being labelled 'the trauma queen'.
www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...
An Interview with Eimear McBride — TOLKA
by Liam Harrison
www.tolkajournal.org
July 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Moral certainty only makes shit art"--Eimear McBride
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Why Did The Novel-Reading Man Disappear?
June 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Why Did The Novel-Reading Man Disappear?
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“The Time it takes to write something is one of its formal elements.”
-- Heather Christle
-- Heather Christle
June 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“The Time it takes to write something is one of its formal elements.”
-- Heather Christle
-- Heather Christle
Reposted by Eimear Laffan
Reposted by Eimear Laffan
My favourite genres are:
1 - cheerful first stanza, massive pullback, sadness
2 - birds, and therefore the soul
3 - mountains, and therefore god / no god
4 - plants, plus soon I will die
5 - I love you, but not enough to be nice in the couplet
1 - cheerful first stanza, massive pullback, sadness
2 - birds, and therefore the soul
3 - mountains, and therefore god / no god
4 - plants, plus soon I will die
5 - I love you, but not enough to be nice in the couplet
March 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
My favourite genres are:
1 - cheerful first stanza, massive pullback, sadness
2 - birds, and therefore the soul
3 - mountains, and therefore god / no god
4 - plants, plus soon I will die
5 - I love you, but not enough to be nice in the couplet
1 - cheerful first stanza, massive pullback, sadness
2 - birds, and therefore the soul
3 - mountains, and therefore god / no god
4 - plants, plus soon I will die
5 - I love you, but not enough to be nice in the couplet
Reposted by Eimear Laffan
“Hope has nothing to do with optimism…. It is in Hell where solidarity is important, not in Heaven.”
– John Berger, in The Seasons in Quincy
– John Berger, in The Seasons in Quincy
February 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“Hope has nothing to do with optimism…. It is in Hell where solidarity is important, not in Heaven.”
– John Berger, in The Seasons in Quincy
– John Berger, in The Seasons in Quincy
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you are being suffocated
Joe Wenderoth, ‘Early Capitalism’
Joe Wenderoth, ‘Early Capitalism’
January 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
you are being suffocated
Joe Wenderoth, ‘Early Capitalism’
Joe Wenderoth, ‘Early Capitalism’