It is 1850 and my great great grandparents and their children take the road from Limerick to Cork. They hire a trap from the local smithy. Here at the Cork …
I remember Professor Elizabeth Webby at Sydney University teaching Australian poetry. I had lived and worked in a remote mining town as well as traveled extensively through the outback …
Recently, I traveled out to Clonmacnoise. A Sunday morning, grey watercolors soggy above and verdant cold green mush below with the River Shannon bending with lazy insouciance this way and …
Each time I have gone to Russia I make my way to Anna Akhmatova’s home in St Petersburg. She is one of the great Russian Silver Age poets (early 20th …