Rhoda Coghill is best known as a composer and pianist, though she is the author of a small number of strikingly accomplished poems. Born in Dublin, she attended Alexandra College and took piano lessons at the Leinster School of Music. Winning numerous prizes for her playing, her most notable achievement was in the field of composition: her rhapsody for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra, out of the cradle endlessly rocking, is among the most remarkable in modern Irish music. Most of her other compositions were songs, and it is perhaps this part of her work that links most directly to her poetic output. She published just two collections of poems, The Bright Hillside (1948) and Time is a Squirrel (1956), a small gathering of poems printed by the Dolmen Press. They reveal her taste for simplicity: these are pared-back and understated poems but resonant in rhythmical terms though they make only sparing use of rhyme. Thematically, many of them show a deep appreciation of nature and an inward, reflective capability.
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