Fiction

Friday Fiction: Yeats-Gonne Series: Maud Gonne ...

Each Friday, I publish an extract from my work in progress, currently Dancing in the Wind, based on a true story about the controversial love triangle between WB Yeats, his...

Friday Fiction: Yeats-Gonne Series: An Unequal ...

Each Friday, I publish an extract from my work in progress, currently Dancing in the Wind (Book 4 of the Yeats-Gonne series), based on a true story about the controversial...

WB Yeats Letter to Maud Gonne on Her Marriage

"Poets should never marry," Maud Gonne told WB Yeats shortly before she, without telling him, became engaged to another. "The world should thank me for not marrying you.” The other...

DANCING IN THE WIND NOTEBOOK DAY 39: Maud Gonne...

Maud Gonne's father, Tommy, was a Cavalry Major, which was how the English born Maud ended up living in Ireland, when he was posted there. In 1879, he was posted...

DANCING IN THE WIND NOTEBOOK DAY 35: Rules for ...

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual writing of the Greek poets and dramatists, and...

DANCING IN THE WIND NOTEBOOK DAY 33: Ezra Pound...

Ezra Pound had many famous sayings. The one that has always been most useful to me is "literature is news that stays news", a reminder to concentrate on what's lasting,...