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Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Book Review - Treasure Island

The book is absolutely marvellous, i think it may be my favorite. It's that kind of a limpid, no sweat english prose in which everything is registered descriptively and with perfect accuracy. And one of the things about the poem that i love is the way in which the story treasure island, picks a single moment out of the book.

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