Seamus HEANEY
posted by Eric Forbes at 3:55 AM
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I am a senior book and magazine editor who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I love books and the freedom to read whatever makes me happy: both fiction and nonfiction. I have always been obsessed with the relationship between literature and life and its role in society. As an editor, I have edited many books, but never get tired of the grand adventure of reading. We must never underestimate the redeeming power of fiction in our lives. The idea that there is something out there that is far, far bigger than our lives sustains some of our lives. I am the co-editor of URBAN ODYSSEYS: KL STORIES.
2 Comments:
Honestly, a brilliant poet. Honest and so unassuming.
Heaney's whiskey-inspired tribute to Barack Obama, viz., "There's no one else like him alive", seems embarrassingly banal in addition to being decidedly clunky in prose style, especially from a poet of his standing. Perhaps it sounds more convincing in an impenetrable Irish brogue.
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