Csilla Toldy

Just back from the Cork International Poetry Festival, organised by Munster Literature Centre where I read and screened poetry films together with poet and film poet Colm Scully. As always, when I see my films on the big screen, my heart is in my throat, but the excitement adds energy to voice my poems in the reading that follows. As I am judging the Drumshanbo Written Word Poetry Film Competition, and have watched about fifty film poems so far, I thought it would be interesting to give some...

A blog entry about my visit artist retreat at Montasola #ceramics #artistretreat #creativity #writing

Last summer I struggled with three ideas for my next novel and finally decided to carry on with Kata - the sequel to the first volume on Katalin Karady's life. It was tricky, for I had to ask my family for permission. If I kept my mother and the rest of the family as characters, we would have to think about the more recent past, the years of Stalinism before 1956, some dark and too painful memories. One of my sisters said yes, the other was undecided and we let my mother decide, who simply...