No Enemy but Time

'The innocent and the beautiful,' wrote W.B. Yeats, 'have no enemy but time' . . . a claim contested yet deeply considered here in poems honouring Anglo-Irish sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz, that Yeatsian bird the linnet, the Northern Irish peace process, and the traditional Irish genre the aisling or 'vision poem'. The predations of time are mourned and challenged most intimately though in poems in memory of Belfast writer and cultural activist Mairtin Crawford, and his quietly remarkable mother, Flo Crawford. Elegiac yet defiant, No Enemy but Time keeps Naomi Foyle's dream of Ireland alive.