IF YOU TOLERATE THIS
BOOK LAUNCH - IF YOU TOLERATE THIS will launch at the Ennis Book Club Festival March 4 2022 6.30pm at the Old Ground Hotel in Ennis, County Clare. The event is free but ticketed. Please go to the Ennis Book Club Festival site to book a ticket! (Click on the image above to enlarge)
'Frank Golden’s new volume IF YOU TOLERATE THIS is a complex, dark and shimmering book that claims a huge territory for its concerns and its lens; a book which sings about dark times. IF YOU TOLERATE THIS is an extremely unusual book when we consider the ‘usual’ Irish poetry volume.
While the book does ramble from Brazil to Libya to Greece to Mexico to Iran it does not function as a travelogue, this is not the travel poetry of exoticism where any life unlike our own is presented in a way that shows our own adventurousness and sophistication. I once heard it said that most poetry books function as the poet’s love letters to who they want the public to think they are, but that can’t be said here.
We are lucky to have artists like Frank around if we have to have dark times, we need the singers to sing us through them.' Sarah Clancy/The Truth & Other Stories
While the book does ramble from Brazil to Libya to Greece to Mexico to Iran it does not function as a travelogue, this is not the travel poetry of exoticism where any life unlike our own is presented in a way that shows our own adventurousness and sophistication. I once heard it said that most poetry books function as the poet’s love letters to who they want the public to think they are, but that can’t be said here.
We are lucky to have artists like Frank around if we have to have dark times, we need the singers to sing us through them.' Sarah Clancy/The Truth & Other Stories
gotta get a message to you - published by Salmon Poetry - Launched March 4 2017 - The Ennis Book Club Festival -
"A poet to get excited about. This is a startling and exciting collection." Afric McGlinchy/Southword Journal "I have rarely been so moved by a book of poems," Grace Wells "Gotta Get A Message To You has floored me like no book of poetry has in a long time. Golden has an uncanny ability to touch on the things that move us most deeply." Phil Hanrahan/Bookish "The Tom Waits of Irish Poetry" Aidan Murphy/The Irish Press
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"It would be naive to expect an easy read; indeed Golden threatens to overwhelm us with the darkness that can lie inside. The discomfort is, however, balanced out by moments of extreme lyricism, and by the author's unflinching honesty." Andy Robinson/The Galway Advertiser/The Interior Act(Salmon Publications 1999)
"In Daily Accord is a satisfying experiment. It remains very much an anarchic patchwork of perceptions, but one through which certain threads are patterned. Recommended." Billy Ramsell/Southward/In Daily Accord(Salmon Publications 2009)
In Partial Settlement(Wiffle Press, New York 1987)
ANTHOLOGIES
Circus Europe(Salmon Poetry 2013) Four Dutch poets and four Irish poets respond to eight large collages by the Dutch artist Machteld van Buren. The collages are illustrative of the struggle for survival being waged in various European countries. The Irish poets are Jessie Lendennie, Jo Slade, Patrick Chapman, Frank Golden. The Dutch poets are Arnoud van Adrichem, Martin Reints, Lieke Marsman, and Peter van Lier.