Spun-yarn and Spindrift

A lyrical collection of poems ranging from intimate domestic scenes and lullabies to elegiac meditations on loss, memory, and death, frequently shaped by sea imagery and Irish landscapes. Mythic and fairy motifs, dreamlike figures, and religious sensibilities recur as ways to examine longing, release, and consolation. Several poems register wartime grief and national feeling alongside lighter ballads, pastoral sketches, and urban vignettes. The tone shifts between tenderness, melancholy, and quiet defiance, while recurring images of ghosts, the shore, childhood, and sleep knit the varied pieces into a coherent emotional tapestry.