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Tue 10 Oct 2010MISSING: Have you seen these poets?
The deliberate exclusion of a generation of Irish poets from the Penguin Book of Irish Poetry is a wasted opportunity, writes MICHAEL O'LOUGHLIN
A LOST GENERATION? There must have been something special in the water in Ireland in that period from the official coming into being of the Irish Republic in 1949 to the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1966. How else could it have given rise to a generation of poets that included Paula Meehan, Aidan Matthews, Dennis O’Driscoll, Harry Clifton, Peter Sirr, Matthew Sweeney, Pat Boran, Vona Groarke, and many others? This particular generation must be the most startling array of poetic talent since the foundation of the state.
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