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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard


Compare Poets

Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.

Poet A

Katharine Tynan Hinkson Katharine Tynan Hinkson

Poet B

Genevieve Taggard Genevieve Taggard
Compare two related contemporaries

A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.

Kindred spirits
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 72% Poems 83% Blended 77%
Swap sides Another related pair
Katharine Tynan Hinkson

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

23 January 1861 – 2 April 1931 (~70)
2 live poems · English

Katharine Tynan Hinkson, born Katharine Tynan on 23 January 1861 and dead on 2 April 1931, was one of the most industrious and visible Irish writers of her generation. Poet, novelist, reviewer, memoirist, editor, children’s writer, and biographer, she published with a speed and abundance that can make her career seem almost bewildering to a modern reader. Her name is most often associated with the first phase of the…

“I am not especially proud of this facility of mine. It has produced a good deal of honest work, with of course, a good deal of necessary pot-boiling, and it has made some few people happy besides myself.”

Neighbourhood: Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality
Listen Timeline Affinities
Genevieve Taggard

Genevieve Taggard

28 November 1894 – 8 November 1948 (~54)
3 live poems · English

Genevieve Taggard was born on November 28, 1894, in the small farming community of Waitsburg, Washington, a place of dust-choked fields and modest wooden houses that would later stand in stark contrast to the lush paradise of her childhood memories. She died on November 8, 1948, in a New York City hospital, just shy of her fifty-fourth birthday, her body worn down by chronic hypertension that had increasingly confine…

“Am I the Christian gentlewoman my mother slaved to make me? No indeed. I am a poet, a wine-bibber, a radical; a non-churchgoer who will no longer sing in the choir or lead prayer-meeting with a testimonial.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Genevieve Taggard
1861 1948
They overlapped for 38 years (1894–1931). When Genevieve Taggard was born, Katharine Tynan Hinkson was about 33. Genevieve Taggard was about 37 when Katharine Tynan Hinkson died.
Katharine Tynan Hinkson in history Genevieve Taggard in history Years they were given

On the map

About 7,201 km separate Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland from Waitsburg, Washington, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

Genevieve Taggard

Open both on the History Atlas

Themes they return to

Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.

No overlapping top terms in the poem critiques — any kinship may sit in mood rather than vocabulary.

Katharine Tynan Hinkson only

tynan lambs lamb christ suffering sheep religious christian world pastoral wind music

Genevieve Taggard only

woman city social life failure memory detail clock hawaiian dancer hula grace

From the biographies

Katharine Tynan Hinkson: county dublin, whitehall, catholic farming family, w. b. yeats, christina rossetti, irish literary revival, shamrocks and ballads, the handsome brandons. Genevieve Taggard: waitsburg, washington, honolulu, hawaii, robert l. wolf, marcia liles, for eager lovers, hawaiian hilltop, travelling standing still, the life and mind of emily dickinson.

Poems that secretly rhyme

The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
79%
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Portygee Lovesong
Genevieve Taggard
Sheep and Lambs
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
74%
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Portygee Lovesong
Genevieve Taggard
Sheep and Lambs
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
73%
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Detail
Genevieve Taggard
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
73%
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Detail
Genevieve Taggard
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
67%
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The Tourist
Genevieve Taggard
Sheep and Lambs
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
61%
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The Tourist
Genevieve Taggard

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1894 Death of Robert Louis Stevenson
1894 Valéry begins his lifelong notebooks
1895 Publication of 'The Red Badge of Courage'
1895 The X-Ray Discovery
1896 Publication of 'A Shropshire Lad'
1896 Publication of 'The Story of the Other Wise Man'
1897 J.J. Thomson discovers the electron at the Cavendish Laboratory
1897 Ronald Ross Demonstrates Mosquito Transmission of Malaria

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

1875 Education at Convent School in Drogheda
1885 First Poetry Collection Published
1889 Friendship with W.B. Yeats
1890 Friendship with Lady Gregory
1899 Publication of 'The House of the Black Ring'
1912 Return to Ireland
1915 Publication of 'The Poets of Ireland'
1920 Publication of 'The Last Poems'

Genevieve Taggard

1896 Taggard Family Relocation to Hawaii
1921 Taggard Co‑Founds The Measure: A Journal of Poetry
1922 Taggard Publishes First Poetry Collection, For Eager Lovers
1925 Publication of First Poetry Collection
1926 Taggard Publishes Words for the Chisel
1930 Taggard Publishes The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson
1931 Taggard Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship, Travels to Majorca and Capri
1935 Involvement in Labor Activism

Emotional landscapes

Katharine Tynan Hinkson: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality. Genevieve Taggard: Longing, Sorrow, Despair.

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