
Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney
The New Yorker: Poetry
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A Deep Litter of the Mine
The poemis takes as a spring board both the book by robert louis stevenson, of treasure island, and also the movie. And i was curious, i hadn't seen the movie or read the book in many, many years, sand so i re read them like the last few days. For me it was more about a kind of tha, a deep litter of the mine. The idea that it's ah is rooted in something as physical, as daily as thatAh, that's very typical of shame,. unless it say it's where the hutch on the hatch come from, the hatch in particular, and theincb, as it were, up there in the
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