Tom paulin, an Anglo-Irish poet and Oxford academic, is no stranger to the evocative power of words. He was born in Leeds in 1949 and grew up in Belfast. His work is attentive to the shift between these differing cultures, the pinpoints of speech that separate one from another. His poetry takes place both against the backdrop of Irish sectarian violence and in the glare of "that cold intense/English light"; his feeling of displacement between the two places described in lean, simple phrases.
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