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Walking with Ghosts

And Other Poems

By

W.G Mc Neice

 

ISBN: 978-1-909154-51-3

 

Price:  €15.00

 

 

 

About the Author

 

W.G. Mc Neice was born in Castle island, Co. Kerry in 1930 and worked with a local authority in Tralee before transferring to Bray, Co. Wicklow in 1972. 

 

This is his sixth volume of poetry to have been published following In This Kingdom by the Sea, The Carpenter’s Apprentice, Going Home Again, The Song of the Sea, and When Leaves were Turning. His poetry has been published in magazines and newspapers here and in England, including The Times Literary Supplement, New Irish Writing and many others.

 

He has won a number of prizes at the Listowel Writers’ Week in the past and has received many commendations for his poetry also.

 

He is now retired and lives with his family in Bray.

 

About the Book:

 

Volume of selected poems.

 

 

 

Sample Excerpts

 

Who Will Tell the Blackbirds

 

The early elements combined

To stunt the blossoms on the trees,

And then, in May and June the wind

And rain deterred the bees

 

From venturing to pollinate

The flowers that survived the cold;

The apple yield will not be great,

The public have been told.

 

But who will tell the blackbirds so,

That love the apple more then most,

When silenced by a fall of snow

Or circumscribed by frost?