* Bestselling * Award Winning * Indie
about my Gonne-Yeats series: seven biographicals novels about the Irish poet WB Yeats and his mother-and-daughter muses, Maud and Iseult Gonne
Thank you for attending my St Patrick’s Day talk “More Than A Muse: Maud Gonne and the Poetry of WB Yeats” at Kino-Teatr, St Leonards on Sea
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and I’ll be using it to write to Minister for Media in Ireland about the … Read more
I believe Maud Gonne deserves public honor from Dublin for her social and political achievements yes, but her statue is particularly timely now. She embodies the sort of objections those in power use to keep out those who are different–female, queer, colored, disabled or outsidered in some other way. As a young woman she was dismissed as a rich English spy or a self-serving drama queen by unsympathetic nationalists. After she died she was dubbed a liar by unsympathetic scholars. In between she was always seen as “too” something. Too bloodthirsty, too divorced, too radical, too English, too feminist, too self-promoting, too extreme, too pathetic. Today, she is too anti-Semitic. The “More Than A Muse” campaign will highlight not just her many achievements but also the many ways she was unduly vilified.
Does Maud Gonne deserve a statue in Dublin? Of course she does and a group of writers and readers, artists … Read more
The launch of my epic Gonne-Yeats series is getting close. Seven years work is about to come together, with Book … Read more
WB Yeats Was an Indie Author. Join me as I take a deep dive into Yeats’s Self-Published Books. This is an open post for all readers.
Here is the cover of A Life Before, the first book in the Gonne-Yeats series and a standalone novel in its own right. It tells the coming of age story of Maud Gonne and WB Yeats and introduces a host of fictional characters setting out on a remarkable story.
Join me as I explore some of WB Yeats early work as featured in the Dublin University Review 1885-1886. This is an open post for all readers.