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Heaney, important actIt 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
100%
Calcutt, translation of painThe translation of pain into language gives remarkable energy to any piece of writing
100%
Longley, poetic rootsSeamus remained absolutely in touch with the north and with his actual and poetic roots here
50%
Sheers, commissionedWhen I'm commissioned to write poems they come from a different place
50%
Etter, soldiers anonymousBy leaving the soldiers anonymous and focusing on the relationship between the earth and their bones [...] detached perspective
0%
Etter, stressDisproportionate 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
0%
unknown, internal experiencesInternal experiences, emotions and attitudes are always reflected and mirrored by natural world
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Cocoran, topography[Of Heaney's poetry] its topography becomes the register of an immensely complex psychological, emotional, cultural and political terrain
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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]
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Borton, about Sheers as a writerSheers is a writer who is confident in his own raw emotion, confident even in the instability of the image he creates
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Calcutt, human sufferingSheers peers between the brighter lines [...] to source the black expanses of human suffering
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Sheers, [Skirrid Hill concerns][Skirrid Hill concerns] the fraying of love, questions of failed articulacy
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Etter, cultural 'memory'The landscape is operating both as a shared cultural 'memory' and a metaphorical vehicle
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Sheers, imbricatedYou can't separate landscape from people. They're completely imbricated
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