'Poetry, as I know it, is a bit like mining. One day you strike and strike the rock and nothing happens: the next, you hit it and extract silver.'
The Irish poet Eavan Boland introduces and reads a selection of her work.
Producer FRASER STEEL (R)
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'Poetry, as I know it, is a bit like mining. One day you strike and strike the rock and nothing happens: the next, you hit it and extract silver.'
The Irish poet Eavan Boland introduces and reads a selection of her work.
Producer FRASER STEEL (R)
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