Poetry Archives - Katherine Dolan Writes

Middle East June 5, 2023

This week, to celebrate the release of an audiobook version of Girls of the Empty Quarter (also published as Teacher, We Girls!), my memoir...

Europe April 21, 2021

One of the most surprising things about Youghal, to me anyway, was that Sir Walter Raleigh used to live there. His house, Myrtle Grove,...

Medieval March 21, 2022

Dante Alighieri, who died 700 years ago today, is kind of a big deal. Italy considers him the father of modern Italian and last...

Fiction February 16, 2021

What with staying 'safe at home', freezing temperatures and 3pm sunsets, this autumn has been a great time for finally getting around to reading...

History January 2, 2021

Until recently, I knew three things about Louis MacNeice (1907-1963): that he was from Ireland, that he was friends with Auden and that he...

Poetry June 21, 2020

How do you distract yourself from the appalling vistas of Life as we know it right now? One way is to ameliorate reality...

Obituary December 4, 2019

When I was growing up in the 1980s, my brothers and I were occasionally allowed to stay up late to watch Saturday Night Clive....

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