Spaces
In 7th century Ireland the monks start writing in the Irish language, and they use what they call a minuscule script – it’s more compressed, it uses less vellum ... and around the same time they start using spaces between words. ... We were inventing the mechanics of modern writing ... you take our indigenous oral mythology and translate that into the written word, and you invent spaces, commas, punctuation –you introduce musicality to writing. There’s beats now, there’s spaces, there’s pauses – you’re making the page sing. The Land of Slaves and Scholars The day after the operation I had a number of visions. ... I saw a man made of rain. ... He led me to different places (I call them ‘places’) such as my father’s grave, inside my father’s bones, the land of no-language, the place where scars are roads through difficult territories ... Brendan Kennelly First days of summer, hawthorn foams in the hedges, shocks of roses fli...