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Tag Archives: Seamus Heaney
The Nay I Know Not Seamless Garment Garment
An eminently sensible question from a former student, ‘Do you have different blogs for a reason? Maybe you should just choose one and stick to it?’ has made me go over this old niggle from a new angle. Whether we’re … Continue reading
On (and over) The Wall
(An edited version of this talk was broadcast on Radio 3′s ‘The Essay’ as part of their Free-Thinking Festival, 2010. It was recorded at the Sage on November 7th, and, at the moment, is not available on their site, but … Continue reading
Posted in current emanations
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anthony Birley, Arbeia, Dirty Harry, Euryalus, Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, Ian McMillan, L.S. Lowry, Little Britain, Nisus, North Shields, Robin Birley, Seamus Heaney, Segedunum, Tam Lin, The Aeneid, the Border Ballads, the First Emperor, The Great Wall of China, Troy, Vindolanda, Virgil, W.H. Auden, Wallsend
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Embodying delight (some formulae)
Alan Gillis, Hawks and Doves, The Gallery Press, 79pp; Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer, Carcanet, 74pp; Lynne Wycherley, North Flight, Shoestring Press, 70pp. There are a number of now quite stately premisses on which we still rely when we come to … Continue reading
Posted in reviews (some antique)
Tagged Alan Gillis, Charles Darwin, Colette Bryce, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Fiona Sampson, George Mackay Brown, Jen Hadfield, John Clare, Louis MacNiece, Lynne Wycherley, ohn Burnside, Paul Muldoon, Pauline Stainer, Poetry London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney, Sinead Morrissey, W.B. Yeats, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth
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