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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

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The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

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We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

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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.

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I spend almost every morning with mail.

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Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

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I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.

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Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

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It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

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I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: April 13th, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2013

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