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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

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
I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Intelligence Natural Politics Thinking
I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.
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Expectation Nobel Ordinary Prize
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
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Eyes Poem Reading Time Voice
The group of writers I had grown up with in the ’60s – Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon – formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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Group Necessary Sustainable Writing
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 think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
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Myself Thinking
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
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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Marriage Peace Personal Politics
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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Myself Possible Space Walk
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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Poetry Promotion
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Achievement Hard Poetry Serious Worth
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
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Identify Passport Yourself

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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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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