Reprise: 'standing on the threshold of another trembling world'

a terza rima historic narrative by Colin Carberry

Originally published on How to Grow a Poem in November 2023.

It was no simple task Colin Carberry set for himself when he determined to explore in verse the murder of an Irish nationalist hero, an incident he had been obsessed with for many years by the time he started writing “The Solicitor” in 2015.

And it was no simple route he would take to convey his…