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‘To say that [Fivemiletown] was one of the best books of the Eighties isn’t enough: it is one of the best books I know, or for that matter, am capable of imagining: a corrosive and uproarious litany of bad sex, bad politics and bad religion.’ Michael Hofmann
TomPaulin
Tom Paulin grew up in Belfast and now lives in Oxford, where he is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford. He has published six books of critical prose on topics including Thomas Hardy and William Hazlitt, several plays, two anthologies and ten collections of poetry. His New Selected Poems appeared in 2014.
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Our Poem of the Week is ‘Namanlagh’ by Tom Paulin, the title poem from his T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted new …