Patrick McGuinness

2 months ago | lrb.co.uk | Patrick McGuinness

Aweek​ before Christmas in 2010, a young woman called Joanna Yeates disappeared from her home in Bristol. I remember first hearing about it on the car radio, my attention snagged, as it always is when Bristol is on the news, because that’s where I went to school. The fact that Bristol is a big place has never prevented me thinking I know it well, but it was when the reporter mentioned Clifton that I was reeled in. Clifton? I had been there. Indeed, I had lived there between 1977 and 1987.

Dec 9, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Martina Evans |Fran Lock |Patrick McGuinness |Samantha Dickey

Thanks for speaking to us about the inaugural Heaney Prize shortlist. Can you talk us through what the prize seeks to recognise? The inaugural PEN Heaney Prize, which is generously supported by the Hawthornden Foundation and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, recognises a single volume of poetry by one author, published in the UK or Ireland, a book of outstanding literary merit that engages with the impact of cultural or political events on human conditions or relationships.

Jul 24, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Patrick McGuinness

Your browser does not support the audio element. Patrick McGuinness reads his diary from our 6 June issue about his family’s hometown of Bouillon in Belgium. He reflects on the linguistic and national barriers he crossed to return there each year and on the changes wrought on the town by the end of the industrial era.

May 29, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Patrick McGuinness

Iwas made​ in the small industrial town of Bouillon, in the Belgian Ardennes, where my mother came from and most of the family still lives. One aunt and uncle lived opposite, another lived forty kilometres away on the Luxembourg border, and our cousins lived next door. My mother was the only one of her siblings or close relatives to leave, but when she did she went far enough away to make up for all their staying.

Apr 3, 2024 | msn.com | Patrick McGuinness

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