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Selected by David Wheatley
In the fourth installment of The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, curated by 2008 Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize-winner David Wheatley, five Irish poets – the experimental Trevor Joyce, religious celebrant Aidan Mathews, elegist Peter McDonald, modern poet Ailbhe Darcy, and Irish speaker Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh – receive their official publication debut among North American readers.
In the anthology’s preface, Wheatley notes that despite his chosen poets’ regional variance and differences in age (37 years separate Joyce, the eldest poet in the collection, and Ní Ghearbhuigh, the youngest), his selection takes care to evade “questions of generational groups and territoriality to explore a series of related but distinct issues” in each of the five bodies of work. In this he is successful: the anthology is a latticework of themes, from troubled love, as seen in Joyce’s defiant “I will not die for you” and the raw honesty of Ní Ghearbhuigh
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Saturday, 19th December 2020, 6:00 pm
There would be games galore, Christmas hats, party food and lots of music to dance to.
You would be dressed in your best party clothes and ready to have a great time.
We have 8 reminders of parties just like that from the 1970s. Perhaps you can spot someone you know.
Take a look and re-live the memories.
1. Party games in Pallion
Some of the children who attended the Sunderland Shipbuilders children s party held in the yard s canteen in 1976.
Photo: Sunderland Echo
2. Tucking in to tea
Tucking into their Christmas tea are these youngsters from Albany Infants School in Washington in 1977. Left to right are: Trevor Merry (5), Daniel Tait (4), Alison Walton (4), Mark Brown (4) and Wayne Harrison (5).