Tony Bailie

Tony Bailie is an Irish novelist, poet and journalist. His first novel, The Lost Chord, was published in late 2006 by Lagan Press and ecopunks was published in 2010. Both can be ordered from Amazon. He has just completed a new novel, The Tarot Reader.

He has also written two collection of poems, Coill, (2005) and Tranquillity of Stone (2010) both published by Lapwing Publication.

His story The Druid’s Dance appeared in the award-winning Irish crime-fiction anthology Requiems for the Departed published in June 2010 by Morrigan Books.

Individual poems and short stories have been published in various journals and magazines including Verbal, Boyne Berries, Books Ireland, Crannog, and Revival.

Visit his blog at www.ecopunks.blogspot.com

He plays guitar and occasionally sings in the band Samson Stone.

ecopunks - published by Lagan Press 2010

Wolf Cliss – ecowarrior and green philosopher – is arrested in Slovenia while protesting against the destruction of an ancient oak forest to make way for a new motorway. He has been arrested dozens of times before,  but now he is being blamed for a logger’s death.
Kei Yushiro is an alternative archaeologist who while working on a dig in the Sahara Desert thinks she has stumbled on proof that human civilizations may have existed thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Lorcan O’Malley , a former wandering Irish musician, literally blew his mind on psychedelic drugs during the 60s and four decades later is still struggling to comprehend the terrifying insights into the human psyche that opened up before him.
Ecopunks follows Wolf as he battles to save rainforests in Asia and South America, faces being obliterated in a nuclear testing zone in the Pacific Ocean and runs the gauntlet of big business and governments who label him an ecoterrorist.
He is an archetype of the modern age but behind the image is a vulnerable man who bitterly resents the caricature that he has become.
Kei’s controversial theories about a sophisticated human civilization that existed long before official history began are dismissed mainstream historians, but the evidence is there in ancient structures on every continent and myths in every culture.
It take’s Lorcan’s frazzled mind to draw the strands together and come to the conclusion that history is screaming a warning to us about the dangers of ignoring the consequence of accelerating climate change
Part adventure story, part psychological thriller and part new age philosophy, ecopunks is an environmental parable for the 21st century.