Seamus Heaney is no more Irish than that other poet of the … - Dennis O'Driscoll

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Seamus Heaney is no more Irish than that other poet of the local, universal and eternal , James Joyce. Both men think locally and globally.

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Dennis O'Driscoll(1954-2012) was an Irish poet, essayist, critic and editor.

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There is no one way 'correct' way of becoming a writer. The very quirks and eccentricities which a workshop will probably discourage may in fact be the aspiring writer's most valuable capital in the longer term. Would be literary Samsons should be wary of enrolling in a hairdressing school.

A defining mark of poetry is that it defies definition.

Interview, Mark Thwaite, 12th August 2005, 'Ready Steady Books for literature'

Seamus Heaney is no more Irish than that other poet of the local, universal and eternal , James Joyce. Both men think locally and globally. - Dennis O'Driscoll

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