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Sat 10 Oct 2009Bucking the trend
PERIODICAL: JOSEPH WOODSreviews Cork Literary Review 2009Edited by Eugene O’Connell 257pp, €20
THE EXISTENCE of literary journals is often precarious. Apart from the labour-of- love aspect, there are the crippling production costs and, sometimes, the lack of committed subscribers. Many journals disappear or at best go online – witness Southword, the journal of the Munster Literature Centre which recently went virtual. Cork Literary Review,now in its 13th issue, under the editorship of Eugene O’Connell, is reversing matters and has just gone from paperback to hardback in a bold and ambitious move.
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