The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
SEAMUS HEANEYTom 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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I don’t think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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What I’ve said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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Write whatever you like!
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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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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I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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