Donal Thompson

Books by Donal Thompson

Live Poets Society

by Henry Normal

Amazing Colossal Press, 1991-11.

Internal Combustion & Letter to M...

by Donal Thompson

, 2011.

Internal Combustion & Letter to M...

by Donal Thompson

, 2011.

Internal Combustion & Letter to M...

by Donal Thompson

CreateSpace, 2011.

About Me

Donal was born into an Irish family in England in 1961. He has worked as an actor, writer and director in theatre-in-education and community theatre projects. He also performed poetry around Britain with Henry Normal and The Live Poets’ Society. In 1992 he won the BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary for writing and emigrated to the Basque Country.

He played and sang traditional Irish music for ten years or so with The Porter Sharks, Limerick and Turlach and worked in interesting times in Hernani and maritime times in Donostia.

He now lives in Madrid where he teaches English freelance , writes, paints and plays music. He is currently giving residential courses and workshops for negotiation skills, meetings and presentations in El Escorial, Segovia , Aranjuez and Cuidad Real.

His story 'Letter to Maeve' has been read 100,000 times on www.anderbo.com

Why do you write?

To begin with,
meeting Mr. Lyons
a decade after a decade
at St. Joseph’s
Was a magical accident,
happening as it did
in an art gallery
framed by real coffee smells.

Words smelled too
and tasted and rang
and bruised and sparkled
in his classroom.
Language loved life
and I loved language.
Mr. Lyons cooked the books
over this flame.

Ten years on
he nodded the nod
of no name remembered
offering a hand.
He made a stab
at a contemporary
and accepted my correction
with no pretence.

That question came
to be answered by
my being a tour guide
in a TV theme park.
This monument to ten years
after the written and spoken
won a readable silence.

This art gallery accident
was the only time I ever saw
Mr. Lyons lost for words.
So I decided then to write
these ones for him
and afterwards
a million more for me.

Any favorite authors? Books?

'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas
'The Rattle bag' Edited by Heaney and Hughes
'The Mersey Sound' McGough, Patten and Henry
'Live Poets Society' Edited by Henry Normal
The Anderbo online literary journal (www.anderbo.com)
Everything by William Shakespeare
'Shelley the Idealist' by Ann Jellico (play)
and and and....