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AUDIO from Friendship of Poets Conference - Belfast, November 2006

'The Friendship of Poets' was staged at Queen's University, Belfast in November 2006 as part of the universities' joint AHRC project, "Relations and Comparisons between Irish and Scottish poetry since 1890".

The symposium was comprised of four different sessions in all: Patrick Crotty discussing 'Yeats and MacDiarmid', Douglas Dunn talking about 'How it Strikes a Contemporary', Rory Watson and Máire Ní Annracháin talking 'Towards an anthology of Irish and Scottish Poetry', and Fiona Stafford and Liam McIlvanney suggesting 'How, Where (and Why) to Begin'.

Associated with the symposium there was a poetry reading with readings by Douglas Dunn and Kathleen Jamie, introduced by Michael Longley. This was an opportunity to hear two of the most distinguished voices in contemporary Scottish poetry, introduced by one of the leading figures of Irish poetry, reading their own poetry and also reading and talking about poetry from the other side of the Sea of Moyle.



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