'Station Island' is set upon an island of that name in Lough Derg in Co. Donegal. For centuries it has been the site of a pilgrimage which involves fasting, praying and going barefoot around the 'beds' – stone circles believed to be the remaining foundations of early monastic buildings. Each unit of these penitential exercises is called a 'station'. William Carleton, who figures in Section II, published a famous account of his experiences on the island in Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (1830–3). The poem by St John of the Cross translated in Section XI is 'Cantar del alma que se huelga de conoscar a Dios por fe'. (Further annotations to this title poem and to some other poems in the volume are available in Station Island, Faber, 1984.)
S.H.
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