News at Eleven: Whatever the motive,

the anonymity seems a tad cowardly. So who wrote this attack on [Seamus] Heaney? Was it a local poet bitter enough to imagine a Catholic clique working to preserve Heaney at the top? Or was the parody the work of an English poet or critic, taking all of Irish poetry in the blast, who could not conceive of any other reason Irish poetry would thrive than that a Murphia would be peddling it in London?

Belfast poet and tutor Medbh McGuckian relished the parodies and has thoughts on the authorship.

from Belfast Telegraph: A poetic injustice?

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