now:
the polish language, an animated film(collaboration with filmmaker Orla Mc Hardy) based on my poem premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 2009 and won the award for Best Irish Animation. It was also nominated for an IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award). Now, it's touring film festivals worldwide. So far in 2010, the film has screened at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, SXSW in Austin, Texas and the back_up festival in Weimar, Germany. For full details and to view a clip, see www.thepolishlanguage.com. Contact me if you'd like to see the film in full on a private view on Vimeo. (a@alicelyons.ie).
a new poem appears in Poetry Ireland Review 100 edited by Paul Muldoon.
next up: Alice will be at the Flat Lake Literary & Arts Festival in Clones, County Monaghan, June 4-6th, 2010 (www.theflatlakefestival.com). She will be giving the following 10 minute lectures as part of HURL (Home University of Roscommon & Leitrim):
The Essential Beauty and Secret Power of Limitations
Stendhal Syndrome and the Contemporary Cultural Tourist
A Short Treatise on Early Maps