Irish Poetry
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“Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over 15 years for various blogs. This was first posted on November 27, 2010. Irish poet Patrick Kavanaugh did not write many poems but what he did write was a great deal of very, very good ones… and a few great ones. He also wrote one of Read more
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Ireland, pound for pound, has created more great writers than any other county on earth, especially poets. Irish poet Paula Meehan and I have one thing in common. We both lived for a while and went to school in Cheney, Washington. Paula was there for grad school at Eastern Washington University. I was there for Read more
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The first book of Seamus Heaney’s I ever purchased was Sweeney Astray at a used bookstore in Dinkytown, Minneapolis. That was in October 1986. Since then I have purchased and read many, many other books of his poetry and prose. I treasure each and every one. By the time Heaney published Sweeny Astray in 1983, he had already written Read more
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