Esteemed Colleagues of the PoundList here is a book publication annuncement:
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'Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast' by Kevin Kiely
ISBN 1-905785-25-9
ISBN 978-1-905785-25-4
Publisher: David Givens, Director
The Liffey Press, Dublin 5. Ireland.
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Kiely's biography is based on vast research sources, not least a twenty-three year friendship with Francis Stuart (1902-2000) author of 'Black List, Section H' and 24 other novels. Stuart's life remains controversial because of his broadcasts for Hitler's Third Reich which blacklisted him after the Second World War. His marriage to Iseult Gonne, former lover of Ezra Pound and daugher of W.B. Yeats's beloved Maud Gonne, entangled Stuart in the Yeats-Gonne circle which he ultimately rejected along with the Irish Academy of Letters and the writers of the Celtic Twilight. 
In a life that spanned the 20th century, Stuart challenged the work of Irish writers including Joyce while evolving his unique vision in exile, prison and isolation which relegated him to the position of underground artist who endured and emerged. Yeats conceeded to admit, 'he will become our great writer'. 
Controversies surrounded Stuart's latter years: with the Abbey Theatre over his play 'Who Fears To Speak', within Aosdana over his election to the honour of Saoi, and he took a libel action which proved successful against the 'Irish Times' on being accused of being anti-Semitic by Kevin Myers in the 1990s.

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