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‘The Music of What Happens’

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By Nick Laird
| Soundings from The New York Review
To many, Seamus Heaney is the preeminent Anglophone poet of the latter half of the twentieth century. He’s certainly one of the most celebrated. He was born in County Derry in 1939, and when he died in Dublin in 2013 his death reverberated around the world. It was reported with a huge photograph on the front page of The New York Times—above the fold.
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‘The Music of What Happens’

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By Nick Laird
| Flipboard
8 hours ago Jewel Yang experienced a sacred moment while painting a friend’s pregnant stomach. Unlike her usual work, doing make-up for Yueqi Qi and Oscar Ouyang runway shows or Dazed cover shoots, Yang felt the tension: “Her belly was hard, resistant and elastic, making it very easy to paint,” the 28-year-old …
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Nick Laird · Poem: ‘The Badger’

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By Nick Laird
| London Review of Books Verified
Driving from Durrus to Ballydehob to see for myself the family farmhouse they burned my grandmother out of a hundred years ago the hedgerow on my right gives way to intermittent flashes of the lovely spangle of the bay we leave behind to turn inland and east for the townland Lisheennacreagh, which means a little ringfort in a field.
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