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Brain Drain
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John Montague
B. 1929 D. 2016
some pure thing, / Some living source, half-imagined and half-real, / Pulses in the fictive water that I feel. - John Montague, 'The Water Carrier'
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Michael Longley
B. 1939
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney
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Kathleen Jamie
B. 1962
...if poetry is a method of approaching truths, and each of us with a human soul and 'a tongue in oor heids' can make an approach toward a truth, poetry is inherently democratic. - Kathleen Jamie