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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

Eva Gore-Booth Eva Gore-Booth

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.

Strongly related
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 70% Blended 70%
Swap sides Another related pair
Eva Gore-Booth

Eva Gore-Booth

22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926 (~56)
1 live poem · English

Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was born on 22 May 1870 at Lissadell House, the great neo-classical estate overlooking Sligo Bay in north-west Ireland, and died in London on 30 June 1926. She was a poet, dramatist, essayist, spiritual seeker, trade-union ally, campaigner for women’s suffrage, and one half of one of the most enduring partnerships in the history of British and Irish reform. Her name was long overshadowed b…

“There is a vista before us of a Spiritual progress which far transcends all political matters. It is the abolition of the ‘manly’ and the ‘womanly.’ Will you not help to sweep them into the museum of antiques?”

Neighbourhood: Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace
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

Eva Gore-Booth
Genevieve Taggard
1870 1948
They overlapped for 33 years (1894–1926). When Genevieve Taggard was born, Eva Gore-Booth was about 24. Genevieve Taggard was about 32 when Eva Gore-Booth died.
Eva Gore-Booth in history Genevieve Taggard in history Years they were given

On the map

About 7,018 km separate Lissadell House, County Sligo, Ireland from Waitsburg, Washington, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

Eva Gore-Booth

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.

Shared

social life

Eva Gore-Booth only

walls world nature beauty light land

Genevieve Taggard only

woman city failure memory detail clock hawaiian dancer hula grace hawaii gaze

From the biographies

Eva Gore-Booth: lissadell house, sligo bay, esther roper, women's suffrage, the sorrowful princess, the one and the many, irish literary revival, anglo-irish protestant. 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.

Walls
Eva Gore-Booth
72%
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Portygee Lovesong
Genevieve Taggard
Walls
Eva Gore-Booth
69% social, life
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Detail
Genevieve Taggard
Walls
Eva Gore-Booth
65%
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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

Eva Gore-Booth

1896 Meeting Esther Roper in Italy
1897 Relocation to Manchester
1898 First Poetry Collection Published
1904 Publication of 'The One and the Many'
1915 Publication of 'The Perilous Light'
1927 Death of Sister Constance Markievicz

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

Eva Gore-Booth: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace. Genevieve Taggard: Longing, Sorrow, Despair.

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