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Mon 01 Jan 2009Writing in a vacuum?
THREE IRISH-LANGUAGE poets - Áine Uí Fhoghlú, Simon Ó Faoláin and Maria Ní Mhurchú - won awards for their poetry collections in Irish this year. Their voices are fresh, contemporary and immediate, but many readers will never discover them.
Some might say they are writing in a vacuum. Those few readers who want to discover these new works are a rare breed indeed. What motivates poets to labour in this particularly exclusive field of dreams where readership numbers are so minuscule because accessibility to their work can be daunting and not for the faint-hearted?
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