The Orchard Keeper - Softcover

Connolly, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848615604 ISBN 13: 9781848615601

Verlag: Shearsman Books, 2017

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Francis Ledwidge was a frequent visitor to the McGoona household at Donaghmore, near Navan, Co. Meath. Matty McGoona, an amateur naturalist and musician, became his close friend. A chance encounter with an elderly man beside the orchard at Donaghmore was the catalyst which led Susan Connolly to explore the life of Francis Ledwidge in greater depth, and to write her sequence of poems, The Orchard Keeper. Francis Ledwidge was born in Slane, Co. Meath, in 1887. He wrote poetry from an early age. He enlisted in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1914, and survived the battlefields of Gallipoli, Serbia and Arras before being killed on July 31st, 1917, the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres. The six poems gathered under the title Woman in a Black Hat, warmly recall the lives of close friends and family.

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Susan Connolly lives in Drogheda, Co. Louth. She has published three full-length collections of poetry. Her collection of visual poetry, Bridge of the Ford, was published by Shearsman Books in 2016. She was awarded the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry in 2001. Her other lifelong interest has been music and she plays and teaches the concert flute.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1848615604
• ISBN 13: 9781848615601
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 30
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