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Wed 10 Oct 2008The one-stop poetry shop
As Poetry Ireland marks its 30th birthday with tomorrow's Poetry Day, it has much to celebrate - though a permanent home would help
'SIR, - IN MY OPINION, poetry in this country, at least in the Republic, is in a sad position," began John F Deane's letter to The Irish Timeson March 20th, 1978. "In spite of what we like to believe, our country is abysmally unawake to contemporary poetry and our poets (apart from a few exceptions) unknown or amusedly tolerated abroad . . . Would it not be worthwhile to create a Poetry Society to concentrate on furthering the cause of poetry in Ireland?"
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