Monthly Archives: February 2025

Is Mary Oliver a good poet?

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Mary Montague

Once again, this question (no idea if Henry is a relative, but I’d say not). In the days I mixed in “academic” poetry circles, I found myself, as I’ve blogged before, astonished at the sneery attitude to MO. And as … Continue reading →

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The turn of the Celtic Spring

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Mary Montague

I was lucky enough to be able to céilí at Danny Gormley’s in the townland of Rotten Mountain  (a transliteration from the Irish: the original name may have been rath tine (fort of fire) or raithneach muine (shrubbery of ferns), … Continue reading →

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