A Meditation in Time of War

W.B. Yeats

For one throb of the artery,

While on that old grey stone I sat

Under the old wind-broken tree,

I knew that One is animate,

Mankind inanimate phantasy.

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 116:
A WB Yeats Special Issue

Edited by Vona Groarke

This essential Yeats anniversary publication is edited by Vona Groarke and includes responses to Yeats’s legacy and readings of his poems from public figures as diverse as Bill Whelan, Neil Jordan, Colm Tóibín, Frank McGuinness, Mary Costello and John Banville, along with new poems responding to Yeats’s work by Irish and international poets such as Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Philip Schultz, Sinéad Morrissey and Harry Clifton. The issue also includes Yeats’s poetry collections, reviewed by leading poets as if just published. Now also available in hardback.

"superb special edition" John Boland, Irish Independent

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Poetry Ireland Review Issue 116:A WB Yeats Special Issue

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 116:
A WB Yeats Special Issue