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Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Seamus Heaney

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Big Listening Myself Speaker
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It’s a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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Experiment Kind Myself Poetry Programme Writing
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
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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Arrival Fact Life Miracle Myself Poetry
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Beginning Life Myself Thinking Wide
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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Career Farm Teaching
You yourself don’t have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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Dangerous Feeling Mortal Order Yourself
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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Childhood Disappointment Preparation Thinking
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
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Identity Oneself
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Absolute Admire Greatness Lyrics Poetry
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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Complication Factor Myself Point Talk
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
I spend almost every morning with mail.
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Mail Morning Myself

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

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