Newsletter March 2022
BOOK LAUNCH
Poetic Licence in a Time of Corona by Chris Fitzpatrick will be launched in Hodges Figgis at 6pm on Thursday 12th May. A medic finds healing for himself by writing poems on his phone as the pandemic grips – rhythm, rhyme, haiku, a list-poem of what to do when someone can’t breathe, why Lionel Richie keeps sending him emails. Chris Fitzpatrick finds comfort in poets past, in Strictly Come Dancing, in what he’ll say to the Brazilian woman at the checkout when it’s all over. His fear, his grief, his laughter, his joy become ours too, as we are healed by the magic of his words.
Before studying medicine, Chris Fitzpatrick studied English in UCD. Inspired by advice given to him when he was a junior doctor by Oscar laureate Sir Alec Guinness, he developed a special interest in the role of the humanities in medical education and training. He is clinical lead for RCPI’s applied drama collaboration with Ireland’s national theatre, the Abbey Theatre. He was co-writer with Ruán Magan of the literary drama, And Spring Shall Come, commissioned by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and produced by Moya Doherty as part of its centenary commemoration of Easter 1916 and World War I.
PUBLISHING AWARD
Thrilling news that 21st Century Renaissance, has officially been endorsed by EU Business News as "Dublin’s Best Independent History Publishing Company" in their Irish Enterprise Awards for 2022. The article (which will be live next week) about the award can be viewed here
RECENT POEMS PUBLISHED
Nineteen and Driven Home in The Rail
The Dead in The Nonconformist Magazine
A selection of five poems in A Thin Slice of Anxiety
NEW BRANDING
The new Twenty First Century Renaissance logo and branding is beginning to be rolled out across all platforms. My thanks to Garrett Bennis at BE Creative for the strong new look. Proud to be displaying it at the London Book Fair where 21CR will be exhibiting at the Irish stand (2A91) along with other Irish publishers from 5-7 April.
Poetic Licence in a Time of Corona by Chris Fitzpatrick will be launched in Hodges Figgis at 6pm on Thursday 12th May. A medic finds healing for himself by writing poems on his phone as the pandemic grips – rhythm, rhyme, haiku, a list-poem of what to do when someone can’t breathe, why Lionel Richie keeps sending him emails. Chris Fitzpatrick finds comfort in poets past, in Strictly Come Dancing, in what he’ll say to the Brazilian woman at the checkout when it’s all over. His fear, his grief, his laughter, his joy become ours too, as we are healed by the magic of his words.
Before studying medicine, Chris Fitzpatrick studied English in UCD. Inspired by advice given to him when he was a junior doctor by Oscar laureate Sir Alec Guinness, he developed a special interest in the role of the humanities in medical education and training. He is clinical lead for RCPI’s applied drama collaboration with Ireland’s national theatre, the Abbey Theatre. He was co-writer with Ruán Magan of the literary drama, And Spring Shall Come, commissioned by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and produced by Moya Doherty as part of its centenary commemoration of Easter 1916 and World War I.
PUBLISHING AWARD
Thrilling news that 21st Century Renaissance, has officially been endorsed by EU Business News as "Dublin’s Best Independent History Publishing Company" in their Irish Enterprise Awards for 2022. The article (which will be live next week) about the award can be viewed here
RECENT POEMS PUBLISHED
Nineteen and Driven Home in The Rail
The Dead in The Nonconformist Magazine
A selection of five poems in A Thin Slice of Anxiety
NEW BRANDING
The new Twenty First Century Renaissance logo and branding is beginning to be rolled out across all platforms. My thanks to Garrett Bennis at BE Creative for the strong new look. Proud to be displaying it at the London Book Fair where 21CR will be exhibiting at the Irish stand (2A91) along with other Irish publishers from 5-7 April.
