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Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:35 am
by keith
A write up of the weekend. Needless to say demand for tickets was high!
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/gynoc ... 549?page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:33 pm
by Black Hearted Love
first review, thanks to @RositaBoland
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/gynoc ... 549?page=3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
“When you lose the intimacy, you’ve lost a lot of the point of the festival,” Guinness observed. “Intimacy is what appeals to people.” Guinness revealed what PJ Harvey had told her after Harvey’s public interview with Anne Enright. In that interview, Harvey had spoken about being stuck; that she had not been able to work for some time. “Polly told me that being here had changed that ‘being stuck’ for her,” Guinness recounted. “That she feels she can now go away, and start working again.
“If the festival achieves nothing else, it has achieved that.”
Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:27 am
by KickInside
“Polly told me that being here had changed that ‘being stuck’ for her,” Guinness recounted. “That she feels she can now go away, and start working again.
Ooh that's good. Hearing that she said she was stuck was pretty disheartening so I'm glad that this was able to help her with that. Can't wait for a new album.
That said, I think I'm almost more intrigued by this art/poetry book she mentioned more than anything right now.
Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:34 am
by Sieglinde
Hi, I've found this review about the festival with some interesting pictures!
http://nomoreworkhorse.com/2013/06/11/f ... ay-review/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nice to see her smile

Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:23 pm
by thegossipradio
HI Guys. Was down at Borris House last Sunday. I brought my recorder with me just to get reaction from people after the talk.
the result is a ten minute VOXPOP which includes some well-known Irish writers, artists and musicians. There's also a rather insightful accordion player in the piece too and a little bit of music from a certain dark haired lass.
If you're in south Dublin you can catch it on 93.9FM or if you go to the web
http://www.dublinsouthfm.ie" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
The piece will be on sometime between 5.20pm and 6pm.
Hope all is well.
Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:38 pm
by sau
thegossipradio wrote:HI Guys. Was down at Borris House last Sunday. I brought my recorder with me just to get reaction from people after the talk.
the result is a ten minute VOXPOP which includes some well-known Irish writers, artists and musicians. There's also a rather insightful accordion player in the piece too and a little bit of music from a certain dark haired lass.
If you're in south Dublin you can catch it on 93.9FM or if you go to the web
http://www.dublinsouthfm.ie" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
The piece will be on sometime between 5.20pm and 6pm.
Hope all is well.
Hello. Thanks for this:
http://wp.me/p3q6pq-4C" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:47 pm
by sau
sau wrote:thegossipradio wrote:HI Guys. Was down at Borris House last Sunday. I brought my recorder with me just to get reaction from people after the talk.
the result is a ten minute VOXPOP which includes some well-known Irish writers, artists and musicians. There's also a rather insightful accordion player in the piece too and a little bit of music from a certain dark haired lass.
If you're in south Dublin you can catch it on 93.9FM or if you go to the web
http://www.dublinsouthfm.ie" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
The piece will be on sometime between 5.20pm and 6pm.
Hope all is well.
Hello. Thanks for this:
http://wp.me/p3q6pq-4C" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hold on! David Gilmour was there too?!
Listening to the audio report actually made me feel a bit emotional, after 20 plus years of loving and respecting Polly, to hear such lovely comments and tributes from writers, artists and musicians.
Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:31 am
by Teclo25
Beautiful pictures and links, thanks very much.
Re: Polly at the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:22 pm
by Skinned
Thanks everyone, this made my day. Back to being a londoner then!