John Montague and Prix Goncourt prizewinner (the first ever Prix Goncourt to be given for poetry rather than prose) Claude Esteban gave a dynamic reading of their joint venture published by Agenda Editions in Dun Laoghaire at the Poetry Festival there in May. Copies (£7.99 each) of A Smile Between The Stones can be ordered from Agenda Editions, The Wheelwrights, Fletching Street, Mayfield, East Sussex TN20 6TL.
Desmond O’Grady‘s Kurdish Poems of Love and Liberty (£9.99 each) were launched in Dingle, Co Kerry, in the exotic atmosphere of the Club Havana run by Tim and his charming wife at the Poetry Festival there run by Micheal Fanning in June 2005. Patricia McCarthy, editor of Agenda Editions, and Desmond read his moving poems alternately and then in a duet.
Another launch of Desmond O’Grady‘s book took place in Bandon, Co. Cork, kindly sponsored by Matthew Geden, a great supporter of Agenda and an Agenda poet from Kinsale, and his bookshop.