Fiction

Short Story: Amber Scorched with Honey (Maud Go...

As promised, this is a chapter extract from my work in progress that also works as a freestanding short story, in which Maud Gonne discovers that her newfound love, Lucien...

A Mouthful of Air: Poet Town and W.B. Yeats's s...

I thoroughly enjoyed my recent appearance on A Mouthful of Air, the poetry podcast named for W.B. Yeats's spiritual marriage to Maud Gonne, and hosted by my old friend Mark...

Maud Gonne Discovers Lucien Millevoye is Marrie...

From that day of first meeting Millevoye, the world sets itself a little differently about Maud Gonne, comes to her angled through new light. Maybe it’s just the waters doing...

Short Story: The Holy Church of Romance

This story is extracted from A Life Before, my current novel-in-progress, but is also a standalone story in itself. It tells of W.B.Yeats's first meeting, in 1883, with Laura Armstrong,...

WB Yeats Poems in the Dublin University Review ...

As I have been exploring WB Yeats as a very young man, a list of the poems he first published would have been useful to me, so I'm reproducing it...

Fiction Extract: The Artist's Way

"The Artist's Way" is an extract is from A Life Before, a prequel to Her Secret Rose, which I published some years ago--and which has now morphed into a series...