Shelf Life
28th January, 2009
John Walsh
John Walsh is a poet, writer and singer-songwriter originally from Derry but currently living in Galway, where he also organizes the North Beach Poetry Nights. His poetry books include Johnny Tell Them (Guildhall Press, 2006) and Love’s Enterprise Zone (Doire Press, 2008).
Favourite book from childhood
Wind in the Willows.
Book I didn't make it through
John Banville's Ghosts.
Secret reading vice
Back of Cornflake boxes.
Most under-rated book
Samuel Beckett Murphy.
Most over-rated book
Angela's Ashes.
Irish writer I always look out for
Paul Durcan.
One book I'd love to have written
Graham Greene The Power and the Glory.
The book I go back to time and again
Death of a Naturalist Seamus Heaney: T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock.
