Wing by Matthew Francis Esther Morgan confronting his old demons with

confronting his old demons with honesty and courage

“To read Copley’s limpid

fiddler and polymath Blind Jack Metcalf - whose life Duhig here celebrates

And sport’s the stuff of family lore – the wrong turn at Ballybrit that led to Connemara instead of the Galway Races

Wing by Matthew Francis Esther Morgan confronting his old demons withMatthew Franciss latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the witchy beetle, forkin robin of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hookes microscopic