Was sore tempted by a second printing of this in an antiquarian bookshop but baulked at the £40 pricetag. This was £3 in the Amnesty bookshop Hammersmith, some foxing, otherwise v. good to excellent.
Declan Gaffney
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Further to an earlier thread on the interface between Irish traditional and baroque music, I've only just discovered this fascinating group thanks to The Rolling Wave. cc @bthalpin @wexfordkate
I have books by Mairtín Ó Cadhain and Tim Robinson open, I think it's fair to say the Connemara blues are back.
Chiswick House. From the front these are just three individual statues in classical style but from this angle they seem to form a group with their attention focussed on a shared object.
Paul Durcan on one of those occasions where it all comes together.
(Of course the whipping even of imaginary post-horses is not endorsed, it's a poem.)
Picked up this great dual-language edition of Seán Ó Ríordáin in Dublin (Books Upstairs of course) and found a poem that must have been on the syllabus when I was a kid but had completely forgotten about.
Reading Jon Stallworthy's book on Yeats's drafts. Incredible material: here he is working his way towards the last line of Byzantium.