Michael Longley — The Vitality of Ordinary Things
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Poetry of the Troubles
Poetry is about all the things that happen to people, and war is one of them. I always get nervous about courting things - but i love your poetry. It seems to me you became a sense er, one of the people who people would callt one of the poets of the troubles. And that was what was happening to people. The poems eventually came. There's a lovely poem by man called after lives. There's a beautiful poem by hene called m casualty. These are immortal poems that were born out of or out of our conflict.
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