Like a lover with a broken promise
Short Stories
The Coasters
These ships of which we have recently written were all coasters.
The Coasters of John Hewitt are of a different ilk!
O’Doirnin/MacMurphy
Peader O’ Doirnin was for a time a schoolteacher in the Lough Ross area of
One I Loved
With this final quoted sonnet, John Hewitt reflects on the nurse of old as ‘The One I Loved.’
Betrayal
What precisely the poet’s role is when he comments upon society, is open to interpretation. I know I tend to be more sympathetic when he raises an issue that sounds some echo deep within my own psyche.
