<> Boyd Letters Boyd Estate 19 Jan Linen Hall Library Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF Boyd119 Letter Heaney, Poets English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd119 Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd119_1.jpg LHL Archive 2 Now as news comes in of each neighbourly murder we pine for ceremony, customary rhythms: the temperate footsteps of a cortege, winding past each blinded home ... Those lines are from a poem called Funeral Rites in Seamus Heaney's latest volume North. I quote them because there is more sense, insight, and solace, in xxpoets than in xxpublic figures. Heaney's xxxxxvoice resonates more than Paisley's and will continue to resonate when that cleric is long forgotten. In the end, poetry - xxxxxxxxmemorable speech - endures.xxxxxxxx And we have many poets - Heaney, Hewitt, McFadden, Montague, Kinsella, Deane,Simmon, Longley,Fiacc, Muldoon, Mahon - and xxxx xxxxxxx xxwhat they are Text