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Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Poems About Animals

i was delighted when the fox appeared in the palm a, because one of the things i think poems in particularly when you have an animal surface in the poem. And it's partly, i think, because of the beautifully delicate way that you bring the underbrush or actually, the fox's brush with the technical term for fox tail ancors, is in the underbrush. It's almost as if it's hidden in there, ye. I'm going to take this poem over now, and it's all going to be a primal sensation, you know.

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