A Hut at the Edge of the Village
There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear that there is nothing domestic, nothing tame, about John Moriarty. The power of Moriarty is that he has found a thousand beautiful ways to say something very disturbing: we have to change our lives.
A Hut at the Edge of the Village presents a collection of Moriarty’s writings ordered thematically, with sections ranging from place, love and wildness through to voyaging, ceremony and the legitimacy of sorrow. These carefully chosen extracts are supported by an introduction by Martin Shaw and foreword by Tommy Tiernan, a long-time admirer of Moriarty’s work.
According to Shaw, ‘These are not pastoral times we are living in, but prophetic. We are at a moment when the world as we understand it has been turned upside down. The challenge is that there are fewer and fewer people who can interpret such happenings in a deep, soulful way. Moriarty can do that. When culture is in woeful crisis, the insights never come from parliament, senate, or committee; they come from the hut at the edge of the village. Let’s go there. There is tremendous, unexpected hope waiting.’
A Hut at the Edge of the Village by Martin Shaw, available from The Lilliput Press (2021).
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Praise for A Hut at the Edge of the Village
“The greatest Irish thinker you’ve never read? It could be this man.” —Joe Humphreys, The Irish Times
“To have someone like Martin Shaw act as a guide through the safari of John’s imagination is a great blessing … We are lucky to have him emerging into our consciousness right now, still writing, still probing, still gifted.” —Tommy Tiernan
A Hut at the Edge of the Village
There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear that there is nothing domestic, nothing tame, about John Moriarty. The power of Moriarty is that he has found a thousand beautiful ways to say something very disturbing: we have to change our lives.
A Hut at the Edge of the Village presents a collection of Moriarty’s writings ordered thematically, with sections ranging from place, love and wildness through to voyaging, ceremony and the legitimacy of sorrow. These carefully chosen extracts are supported by an introduction by Martin Shaw and foreword by Tommy Tiernan, a long-time admirer of Moriarty’s work.
According to Shaw, ‘These are not pastoral times we are living in, but prophetic. We are at a moment when the world as we understand it has been turned upside down. The challenge is that there are fewer and fewer people who can interpret such happenings in a deep, soulful way. Moriarty can do that. When culture is in woeful crisis, the insights never come from parliament, senate, or committee; they come from the hut at the edge of the village. Let’s go there. There is tremendous, unexpected hope waiting.’
A Hut at the Edge of the Village by Martin Shaw, available from The Lilliput Press (2021).
£13.00Add to basket
Praise for A Hut at the Edge of the Village
“The greatest Irish thinker you’ve never read? It could be this man.” —Joe Humphreys, The Irish Times
“To have someone like Martin Shaw act as a guide through the safari of John’s imagination is a great blessing … We are lucky to have him emerging into our consciousness right now, still writing, still probing, still gifted.” —Tommy Tiernan