Power returns to Lilliput Press with Written World

The Lilliput Press has landed a collection of critical essays by Bad Day in Blackrock author Kevin Power.

Due for publication in May 2022, publisher Antony Farrell acquired world rights from the Marianne Gunn O’Connor Literary Agency for The Written World.

Its synopsis explains: “These pieces, ranging from reviews of Susan Sontag to the meaning of Greta Thunberg, apocalyptic politics, and literary theory, represent a decade’s worth of thinking about books; a record of the author’s attempts to honour art, and through art, the world. In The Written World, Power explains how he became a critic and what he thinks criticism is. It begins with a long personal essay written especially for this collection about his mental block after publishing Bad Day in Blackrock and his decade-long journey to White City. The pieces gathered by Power are connected by a theme – this is a book about writing, seen from various positions, and about growth as an artist and a critic.”

The book sees Power return to his first Irish publisher following the success of this year's White City (Simon & Schuster). His acclaimed first novel, Bad Day in Blackrock, was published by the Lilliput Press in 2008.

Farrell said: “We are thrilled to be back with this master of prose fiction whose career we initiated through Bad Day in Blackrock.”

Power commented: “I’m so thrilled to be back at Lilliput, it feels like coming home.”