REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’

REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’

REVIEW: PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA’S ‘FEED THE BEAST’     By Stella Backhouse   In a 2020 interview for Belfast-based film-making charity esc films, Irish Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama spoke about the experience of being a gay man in the Catholic church: “I...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BRENDA READ-BROWN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BRENDA READ-BROWN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS BRENDA READ-BROWN     ‘How to make an angel smile’ (written on a Greek island beach) If there were angels, then this is where they would live, or somewhere like this; not frozen in a gloomy church, stuffed full of...
REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’

REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’

REVIEW: DEAN BROWNE’S ‘KITCHENS AT NIGHT’     By Stella Backhouse What does the unconscious feel like? Notice, I’m not asking what it looks like. That’s not because we know what it looks like – probably it doesn’t ‘look like’ anything in the conventional...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS EMMA PURSHOUSE   The man with the gap-toothed smile is off back to his flat, where he lives alone. Ya see that tattoo? he says. Him proffering a forearm, me fumbling for glasses because the devil’s in the detail. Seventy-five quid that...