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    Tony Harrison – Northern soul

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    September 3, 2010

    Marked with D When the chilled dough of his flesh went in an oven not unlike those he fuelled all his life, I thought of his cataracts ablaze with Heaven and radiant with the sight of his dead wife, light streaming from his mouth to shape her name, ‘not Florence…

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    Tupac – a thug’s life?

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    September 1, 2010

         Only God Can Judge Me” (feat. Rappin 4-Tay)  [Intro: 2Pac]  Only God can judge me, is that right? [synth voice] Only God can judge me now Only God baby, nobody else, nobody else All you other motherf***ers get out my business  [Verse One: 2Pac]  Perhaps I was blind…

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    Seamus Heaney – one of the greats

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    August 27, 2010

    Clearances (III) When all the others were away at Mass I was all hers as we peeled potatoes. They broke the silence, let fall one by one Like solder weeping off the soldering iron: Cold comforts set between us, things to share Gleaming in a bucket of clean water. And…

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    Poems on the London Underground

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    August 25, 2010

    This website lists poems that are displayed on tube trains in London. A pretty good selection. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/projectsandschemes/artmusicdesign/poems/

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    Linton Kwesi Johnson

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    August 25, 2010

    Inglan Is A Bitch    – Linton Kwesi Johnson   w´en mi jus´ come to Landan toun mi use to work pan di andahgroun but workin´ pan di andahgroun y´u don´t get fi know your way around Inglan is a bitch dere´s no escapin it Inglan is a bitch dere´s no runnin´ whey fram it mi get…

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    Francis Ledwidge

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    August 24, 2010

    Sentiments that should be heeded in every age: Oh what a pleasant world ‘twould be, How easy we’d step thro’ it, If all the fools who meant no harm, Could manage not to do it! http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/poetry/fledwidge.html

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    John Hewitt – not just a great bar

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    August 23, 2010

    John Hewitt’s poetry  (http://library.ulster.ac.uk/craine/hewitt/work.htm#if ) If I should be remembered after this, pray providence it be by happy men who do not feel the skull behind the kiss, the bony knuckles round the rusting pen, but summon from the stiff archaic words a heart whose pulse in its best moments…

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    odespinner is in Donegal

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    August 17, 2010

    How quickly it can all change from wondrous beauty to grey dullness. A little too much cloud, persistent rain and the landscape no longer captures the imagination but becomes dreary and indoors is the only place to be, preferably with a fire banked up with turf and a mug of…

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    Greetings from an ode spinner

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    August 12, 2010

    Hi Bloggging about odes, poems, rhymes should be easy enough, I hope. There once was a man who thought he might be able to sell the odd ode online. He was cruelly disabused of that notion. The world is not yet ready for what might loosely be described as humorous…

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