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Dancing in the Wind Snippet: Stuff and Nonsense

Dancing in the Wind Snippet: Stuff and Nonsense

The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in Dublin, and the three characters we first met in Her Secret Rose are deeply unsettled. The world famous poet, WB Yeats, “having come to 50 years” has decided...
Dancing in the Wind Snippet: Ezra!

Dancing in the Wind Snippet: Ezra!

Willie Yeats was not the only poet to be attracted to Iseult Gonne. His young secretary, Ezra Pound, though married, also set about winning her favour and in the same way–through their shared love of books and writing. This is another extract from my work in...