Sheers and Heaney critics quotes

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Hint	Answer
Etter, soldiers anonymous	By leaving the soldiers anonymous and focusing on the relationship between the earth and their bones [...] detached perspective
Heaney, important act	It is by concentrating on the facts of labour and on the simple truths of the local that [...] makes us feel that any act in any place is an important act in an important place
Etter, stress	Disproportionate stress on the vehicle of a metaphor [...] An apparent lack of trust in the reader to understand or in the poet to convey his intended meaning
unknown, internal experiences	Internal experiences, emotions and attitudes are always reflected and mirrored by natural world
Sheers, commissioned	When I'm commissioned to write poems they come from a different place
Longley, poetic roots	Seamus remained absolutely in touch with the north and with his actual and poetic roots here
Borton, about Sheers as a writer	Sheers is a writer who is confident in his own raw emotion, confident even in the instability of the image he creates
Andrews, [Of Heaney] time of war	[Of Heaney] Writing in a time of war and continually under pressure to say something, to take sides

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Lloyd, [Politics acts as a]	[Politics acts as a] Persistent presence [which] disrupts the lyrical texture [of his poetry]
Cocoran, topography	[Of Heaney's poetry] its topography becomes the register of an immensely complex psychological, emotional, cultural and political terrain
Sheers, [Skirrid Hill concerns]	[Skirrid Hill concerns] the fraying of love, questions of failed articulacy
Etter, cultural 'memory'	The landscape is operating both as a shared cultural 'memory' and a metaphorical vehicle
Sheers, imbricated	You can't separate landscape from people. They're completely imbricated
Calcutt, translation of pain	The translation of pain into language gives remarkable energy to any piece of writing
Calcutt, human suffering	Sheers peers between the brighter lines [...] to source the black expanses of human suffering