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With his Nobel Prize, his involvement in the Celtic Revival, and his later political prominence, Yeats is undoubtedly Ireland's great national poet. And yet, those of us living in the real, as opposed to the imagined Ireland will see more that we recognise in the work of Patrick Kavanagh. Kavanagh himself suspected as much, and it undoubtedly rankled with him.
Launched amid great fanfare, promised as the greatest cultural event of our young century, Poetry Monday went flat after a single installment. What can I say? It was a bank holiday. There was snooker on.
Recently I noted that since I left college, where I had to actually study the stuff, I haven't been reading much poetry. Saddened to learn that "it's probably safe to say that Disillusioned Lefty's Culture Monday is,for the moment, dead", I thought I'd leap into the breach, and do my best to raise the tone of Mondays with "Poetry Monday".
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