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"Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel."

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About Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. His work includes Death of a Naturalist and North.

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