The novelist Gilbert Parker never meant these poems to be published, he says, and agreed only when friends urged him to include them in a collected edition. They are personal pieces: Irish-flavoured songs such as “Rosleen” and “Kildare,” ballads of homecoming and far travel, and seafaring lyrics of storm and longed-for rest.
A quiet, heartfelt sidelight on the author of The Seats of the Mighty. Download the free EPUB.