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Poetry editor Gerard Smyth salutes a poet renowned for The Táin and Butcher’s Dozen

‘His death is like the disappearance of a great house, a Malton-like edifice fallen away’

Thursday, April 22, 2021 To mark Earth Day, I Fagiolini performs a powerful programme built around T.S. Eliot’s epic poem Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Free access to 5 subscriber-only reviews per month Unlimited access to news, features, blogs, awards and artis...

at sunset, against the veined and naked branches of a sycamore, a bulging half-moon – of jasmine white – insisted; higher than high a jet-plane had left a straggling, pink-orange line and passed, without a sound, towards elsewhere; I had thought, all day, of the Holy Ghost, if, perhaps, the he or she of it could be inveigled to offer to the opened heart some rare and grounded poetry of being, to hold in place that numinous and sometimes ruinous sense of need we feel for warmth and certaint...