Danny Denton

Hailing from Cork, Ireland, Danny Denton has writings published in various journals and has been awarded bursaries and scholarships for his creative work. His debut, The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, has been billed as a ‘gangster ballad love story’. Depicting an Ireland plagued by relentless rain, deadly fires, roaming gangs and warring factions.

When the Kid in Yellow meets the daughter of the menacing Earlie King the stage is set for tragedy. The David versus Goliath storyline serves Denton well to showcase an Ireland in ruins as the kid outwits the King and takes babba on the run to ‘the tiny citadel of Dingel’, where the Virgin Mary statue has appeared to a young girl to tell her when the rains will end. From every wall the King’s Eye watches, yet the city is full of hearts-defiant-sprayed in yellow, the mark of the Kid.

Torrential in theme and execution, The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow is a work of dancing brutality and ferocious tenderness.