Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. - Seamus Heaney 1 Share Now -
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. - Seamus Heaney 2 Share Now -
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. - Seamus Heaney 3 Share Now -
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. - Seamus Heaney 8 Share Now -
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. - Seamus Heaney 9 Share Now -
