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I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Seamus Heaney

Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
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Award Judgement Panel Poetry Solidarity Yourself
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe Myself Writing
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Help Imagination Myself
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work – the hay in the summertime, for example.
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Family Farm Funeral Kind Representation Work
I’ve been in the habit of helping people.
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Habit Help Myself People
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman – these are public value-founders.
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Finding Kind Poet Public Value
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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Conscious Instruction Need Realize
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Association Expectation Moments Reward
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching

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