In Memory of Her
Series: ISBN978-1-872224-03-9
Publisher: Rowan Tree Press
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781872224039
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry
First sentence: Broken Flowers				11
No Tea Party					12
A Wreath for St. Valentine’s Day		13
Must I Call You..again?			14	
The Distracted Scholar			15
The Unrepentant Virago			16
Lust is as Ill-Considered a Weed		17
Jade						18
Woman Writer				19
On His Birthday				20
The Moon Hankers				21
Almost an Apology				22
Letter to Sappho				23
For Mary Magdalene				24
The Life Thief					25
The Passionless Revolutionary		26
Making Him Jealous				27
Demi-Mondaine				28
The Poet meets the Journo			29
Cold War Artist 				30
The Temple Prostitute				31
The Mad Secretary				32
Demeter at the Chinese Opera		33
Damsel Causing Distress			34
Better Half					35
Gangster’s Moll				36
The Amazon meets the Greeks		37
There is Nothing Like a Dame		38
The Token Poetry Editor			39
For Susanne					40
The Bridle of Love				41
Shot Silk					42
The Way of the World			43
A Leaping Acquaintance			44
The Sibyl					45
The Politically-Correct Postcard		46
The Grass Widow				47
Anchorite at the Gate of Heaven		48
The Longing					49
The ‘Fifties were a Sometime Thing 		50
Menarche					51
Neophyte in the Writing Wars		52
Sylvia – an A student	 			53
Bag-lady in the Portrait Gallery		54
Women Can’t be Compassionate		55
Giving the Lie					56
Novice in the Cultural Revolution		57
Postscript to a Passion				58
And you, darling				59
Insane like Hercules?				60
Beauty’s Helicon 				61
Goodness as a Vibration			62
The Button-Back Nurturers			63
Mothers Little Killers				64
Trenchant Wench				65
The Reluctant Guest				66
The B.T.N. love				67
Authentic					68
Lamb among the Literary Lions		69
Child at the Botanic Gardens			70	
A Cenotaph Would Speak Out Loud		71
World War Three Blues			72
POEMS WRITTEN ON CERTAIN OCCASIONS

The Waif Poet					  75
Queen of Hearts				  76   Touching the Poor				  77
The Farewell to Arms				  78
For Speranza					  79
Mother and Writer at the Festival		  80
The Male Muse in Retreat			  81
Joyce in Nighttown				  83
Prince Charles in Ireland			  84
Women and the Dream of Europe		  85
On Refusing a Sitting				  86
The ‘Sixties Poem			              87
Six Windows					  88
Looking for Mount Campbell			  89
The Case of Coins				  90      
The Iron Lady Weeps				  91
The Strange Apparition			  92
The Rocky Road to Dublin			  93
If Nine were Six				  94
On Arriving at the Green Conference    	  95
Letter from an Indian in Prison	              96
On My Son Stepping On a Garden Shears	  98
The Garden of Contemplation and Beauty     100
Mother						101






Epic Award Winners		

Betrayal into Origin
(Dancing and Revolution)			103
The Wake of Wonder				145
Faustina in Sestinae 				171

                                  					
Selected Earlier Poems				

From The Broken Pledge
The Idle Road					193
The Book of Rights				194
Before I was married 				195	 
The Fair-haired Boy				197 
The Broken Pledge				198				 

From The Sea of Affliction
The Zoo and the Sea				202
The Raft 					204 
Dead Man’s Fingers 				206	 
The Ship of State				207
Nereid						208	
The Ice Country				209
The Mermaid					210