When Dr Bernie Sherlock approached me to commission a setting of W B Yeats poem for New Dublin Voices, I'm ashamed to say that I wasn't familiar with his work But it gave me a fantastic opportunity to read through his Collected poems so many jumped out at me, begging to be set. The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers chimed with me especially the desperation of having to draw so profoundly deeply for nebulous creative inspiration then being swept away with it once it arrives, chimed with the p...