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Sunday, July 08, 2007

“Parrying the crush with my bagged Virgil”

As Shane Hegarty noted on Friday at the Irish Times’ PresentTense blog, “despite it arriving completely under the media radar”, Seamus Heaney’s new book of poetry, “The Riverbank Field”, with paintings and drawings by Royal Hibernian Academy member Martin Gale, sold out immediately - in fact it was sold out last Sunday. So I owe a big ‘Thank you!’ to CyberScribe for feeding my Seamus Heaney Poetry Obsession Disorder [SHPOD] by alerting me to the publication.. and to Read Ireland for the copy now sitting on my bookshelf. Kenny’s may have got a copy too..

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