There is something in the blending of ritual, memory, and a conversation that is almost a monologue All of this bound up in mythological tragedy 'in the olny season of his life that mattered' The prophetic ‘I know what's coming’. All it will take is a turn of the head #poetry #poemoftheday

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I don't say this lightly or flippantly: I honestly think this is the most incompetent government we've had in my lifetime and this is a really bad time for it. None of these guys are *anywhere near* qualified for their important ministerial portfolios. An embarrassing shambles of a cabinet

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In the news: queues at Irish petrol pumps, tension in the Middle East, acts of terrorism in Europe... ...but it's not the present, or the future, it's the 25th of May in 1979. Listen back to the 1 o'clock news headlines from Anne Doyle, that I found on an old Maxell UR-60 cassette tape yesterday.

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What I dream of is a canon of very different books over a lifetime and watching readers find something in there that speaks to them. Terrifying as the literary landscape looks right now I feel very grateful for this wee stack of books and the readers they’ve found around the world. Onwards.

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People often ask what’s the best part of publishing a book and honestly, for me, it’s always setting it on top of the books I’ve already written and watching the pile get higher. I’ve never wanted to write a huge bestseller and be known for a single book.

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