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An intimate night of poetry that promises 'gripping philosophical drama' and more is coming to Dundalk

Dundalk's 'hospitable harbour hostelry' The Spirit Store are preparing to host a book launch in early November

An intimate night of poetry that promises 'gripping philosophical drama' and more is coming to Dundalk

Reporter:

Edana Flynn

22 Oct 2024 6:00 PM

The Spirit Store at Dundalk Quay is preparing to host a book launch on Wednesday, November 6 for 'A Twist in The Tale of The Devil/Volte-Face'
The double sided two-books-in-one offering will make its debut during an intimate evening of poetry and storytelling with writers local couple Michael and Catrina McDermott.
"And is the town’s hospitable harbour hostelry not the right warm, welcoming place from which to launch a book whose hope is that the positive new conversation which Ireland needs will begin here in Dundalk on the night?" The couple says about their choice of venue. 
A Twist in The Tale of The Devil / Volte-Face is a collection of thoughtful, easy to relate to poetry on one side, and a fictional Vatican story on the other.
It also features the inclusion of additional poems by the couple’s granddaughter Renee, they promise the potential reader a "substantial and uplifting read, taking in, as the volume does, a gripping philosophical drama story and modern, thought provoking Irish poetry at its best." 
A Twist in The Tale of The Devil by Catrina is a very different Vatican story from what one might expect in that it airs and reflects the flipside of generally held Irish and global cultural opinion and offers thinking which is not heard every day. 
This intriguing tale tells of a supreme effort made over a seven year period by the church's financial director to persuade his religious organisation to accept what the cardinal recognises as evolved, twenty-first century Irish thinking. 
Michael follows up his successful first book, 'To Ride A Poem' with his second entitled 'Volte-Face', a new collection of poems which consider a wide range of topics and are written in the "language of love" to stimulate the imagination and raise the spirits of all who read and connect with them. 
A Twist in The Tale of The Devil / Volte-Face is available now at Rowe River Books, Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk and at Crilly’s Londis shop in Ravensdale.

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