Bronwen Tate

“I took a trip to Greece where I was supposed to stay with relatives of a colleague of my dad, but they misunderstood when I was planning to come and weren’t home when I arrived in Athens at age 16 alone! Long story short, I ended up spending a week with a woman named Debbie who taught English there. We swam, ate yogurt and honey, listened to her Beatles records. She also played me a Loreena McKennitt version of Yeats’ “The Stolen Child,” and I think she must have had a book of Yeats as well because I remember reading “The Stolen Child” and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” and then buying a book of Yeats myself shortly after.”