Eist Leis an Gcruinne

Baili ch n bre aist le Gabriel Rosenstock. Foils odh cuid mhaith acu ar The Irish Times an ch ad uair, aist ina bpl itear r imse leathan bhar agus scata daoine a bhfuil sp is aige iontu - Derrick Jensen, David Abram, Amin Maalouf, Wolfi Land streicher, Rabindranath Tagore, Cathal Searcaigh, Svetlana Marisova agus a thuilleadh nach iad. Ceisteanna a bhaineann le c rsa creidimh agus c rsa polait ochta, n isi nachas v. ainrialachas, cuir i gc s, c rsa teanga is fil ochta, gan amhras, c rsa timpeallachta, an haiku. T a fhios againn go l ir faoin am seo cad is haiku ann, ach cad is renku ann? L igh leat. L igh faoin bpobal neamhghn ch san India, na Bishnoi, agus go leor leor eile. L n machnaimh don rara avis sin na laethanta seo, an l itheoir Gaeilge. --- A fine collection of essays by Gabriel Rosenstock. Many were first published in The Irish Times; the essays deal with a wide range and number of interesting people - Derrick Jensen, David Abram, Amin Maalouf, Wolfi Landstreicher, Rabindranath Tagore, Cathal Searcaigh, Svetlana Marisova and more besides. Issues relating to religion and politics, nationalism v. anarchy, for example, questions of language and poetry, of course, environmental issues, and haiku. We all know nowadays what haiku is, but what is renku? Read more. Read about an unusual community in India, the Bishnoi, and much more. Food for thought for that rara avis of these days: the Irish reader.