DANCING IN THE WIND NOTEBOOK DAY 39: Maud Gonne’s Links with Free India Activists
Maud Gonne’s father, Tommy, was a Cavalry Major, which was how the English born Maud ended up living in Ireland, … Read more
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DANCING IN THE WIND NOTEBOOK DAY 35: Rules for writing poetry by Ezra Pound
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between … Read more
Dancing in the Wind: Extract 9: PORTRAIT OF EZRA POUND 1
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After The Rising & Before The Fall: Centenary Edition
I’m reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It’s almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and … Read more
New Novel Writing Process for IN THE HOUR
I am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I’ve a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish. … Read more
Blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy
I have done some shuffling on the fiction front and I’ll be blogging Dancing in the Wind, Book Two in the Yeats-Gonne Trilogy here weekly in the Friday Fiction slot.
Friday Fiction. In The Hour First Chapter
Friday is Fiction day on the blog. Here is the prologue to In The Hour: The Third Book in the Irish Trilogy.
Friday Fiction: Interview About The Irish Trilogy with Regina Joyce Clarke
I thought you might enjoy this selection from an in-depth interview I’ve just done with author Regina Joyce Clarke. The full … Read more
Friday Fiction: A Historical Literary Dinner with Ezra and Dorothy Pound, WB Yeats, Iseult Gonne and Georgie Hyde Lees
This is an extract from Dancing In The Wind, the second book in my WB Yeats trilogy. It is narrated by … Read more
This Week’s Book Extract: A Reading from Blue Mercy
In this extract, we’re taking up the story, just before Mercy’s father dies and she is arrested for the murder. … Read more