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Feminal: A New Word for Women

Feminal: A New Word for Women

Over on my Facebook page, we've been discussing the word “feminal”. It means: “relating to a woman” and I came across it while researching my Yeats-Gonne book… I really think we should revive it. It fills the great wide gap between...
Illustration by JB Yeats “The Stolen Child”

Illustration by JB Yeats “The Stolen Child”

In researching the prologue to my Yeats-Gonne series, which is told from the point of view of the fathers of WB Yeats and Maud Gonne, I came across the above black-and white-print by JB Yeats, sold at Whytes Gallery auction recently. It fetched €6,400, which is rather...
Poem of the Week: Into Ease

Poem of the Week: Into Ease

My most popular poem on Instagram this week was “Into Ease” My darling, let’s not sigh to see day fade, the earth receive the sun, the light recede. Let us, with sky and trees, dim to dusk mood, fall deep, and deep, and deeper into ease. When hands and...