<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1974 Jun 7th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford120 Letter James Simmons, Padraic Fiacc, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, John Hewitt English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford120 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford120.jpg LHL Archive COPY of letter published in THE IRISH TIMES, 7th June,1974 Sir,- In "Flight of the Earls Now Leaving" James Simmons says that soon only four poets will remain in Northern Ireland : xxxxxxx himself Longley,Muldoon and Hewitt. That is sad. But in my reckoning there will be six,not four. I wonder whether Mr. Simmons has not heard of M Roy McFadden and Padraic Fiacc, both of whom are still living and writing poetry in Belfast. With a little bit of luck he might be able to find some of their work in the Library of the New University of Ulster at Coleraine. Robert Greacen Address Simmons' poem discussed various contemporary poets who have left/still live in N.I. It was quite entertaining in a doggerel-ish way,but he obvigously thinks poetry/began with J.Simmons. Love to you both - Robert he lectures at N.U.U 3 Foxes sent to Lond. Lit. Edrs Text