Tag: Elizabeth Bishop

  • Programme for the Elizabeth Bishop Summer School at the Mater Dei Institute

    “The sun is blazing and the sky is blue” . . . The Irish Centre for Poetry Studies at Mater Dei Institute are proud to announce details for their upcoming Elizabeth Bishop Summer School. Date: Thursday 28th June – Friday 29th June   9.00-9.30 am REGISTRATION 9.30-11.00 am : DR.MICHAEL HINDS Irish Centre for Poetry…

  • Two sestinas

    ‘Sestina’ by Dante Alighieri I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, to the short day and to the whitening hills, when the colour is all lost from the grass, though my desire will not lose its green, so rooted is it in this hardest stone, that speaks and feels as though it…