“Thoor was to be the magnetic symbol around which I would spin my thoughts regarding the twin currents in Yeats’s life that intrigue me most: magic and sex.”
Join author Rob Doyle as he discusses his essay ‘Ballyphallus – Sex, Magic and Yeats’.
Rob Doyle is the Dublin-born author of several internationally acclaimed books: Threshold, Autobibliography, This Is the Ritual, and Here Are the Young Men, which has been adapted for film. His work has been translated into several languages and nominated for various prizes. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Observer, New Statesman, Dublin Review and many other publications. His latest novel, Cameo, is published by W&N.
