Today’s poem, “Down by the Salley Gardens,” suggests the Pre-Raphaelite impulse to recapture, or to recreate in improved form, something ancient. Yeats’s own note on this poem indicates that it ...

There isn’t an actual place called the Salley Gardens, or at least there wasn’t when Yeats wrote the poem. Rather, he probably used the word “salley” to refer to the Irish word “Saileach ...

It was British, thank heaven. Indeed, it was “The Cloths of Heaven,” Thomas Dunhill’s treatment of the Yeats poem. Is there a more perfect song, in any repertoire? Some of us listened to Janet and ...

Sally Keith reads "Providence'," a poem from her recent book, "The Fact of the Matter." ...

Rather as Burns sometimes did with his Scottish songs, the great Irish poet W B Yeats constructed this memorable little poem, at once lyrical and emotion-filled, from an overheard fragment of an ...

In the last of our Valentine's poems, Bristol-based Sally Jenkinson performs her beautiful and melancholic reflection on a love affair, 'More Words Than We Deserve'.

Shortland Street actor Sally Martin has posted a poem paying tribute to her former co-star Pua Magasiva. Photo / NZ Herald. Actor Sally Martin has posted a poem on Instagram paying a loving ...