Two Sonnets by WB Yeats for Maud Gonne: New Poetry for Patrons
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Enjoy “Long Love”, an open ‘heart poem’ free to all for WB Yeats’s birthday.
Today is the birthday anniversary of Edward Lear, born on May 12th, 1812, the second-last of a family of 21 … Read more
“Circle of Life” is a winner again. This time it’s a BookFest Book Gold Award for “exceptional literary achievement”.
Thinking of Easter, and of Eostre –the old goddess of spring and fertility who gave the celebration her name–along came another spring poem. I’ve called it “April in England” and to leave this one open to everyone.
(Sorry patrons, but I’ll have a new exclusive for you next week). Enjoy, all. And happy Easter. It’s my favorite time of the year, and this year it coincides with my birthday.
As they say in Ireland, Beannachtaí na Cásca ort! (May the blessings of Easter be on you).
Maud Gonne was a formidable activist and generous philanthropist, whose feminism and nationalism altered the course of Irish history, but she is still best known as the muse of the first Irish nobel laureate for literature, the great poet WB Yeats. This post is about some of the poems she inspired.
It’s Mother’s Day… time for a poem. I’ve actually just come back from a trip to Ireland which has prompted … Read more