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I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.

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Seamus Heaney

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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

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June 5, 2024

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

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