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Few could touch the quick of things as John Montague did in his verses
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‘He would carry words through the noise of domesticity to drop them safely onto the page’
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Ulster poet had a ‘dramatic, engaged, fruitful literary life right to the end of his days’
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Higgins heard news ‘with sorrow’, describing him as ‘one of our finest poets’
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Leading figure in Irish contemporary literature published more than 30 books
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John Montague and Elizabeth Wassell are heartbroken over the attack in Nice
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