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It's a process, something I read recently in a Seamus Heaney book called Preoccupations.
Mike Ragogna: With Love To Seamus, Lucinda, and Leonard : A Conversation With Matthew Ryan 2010
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It's a process, something I read recently in a Seamus Heaney book called Preoccupations.
Mike Ragogna: With Love To Seamus, Lucinda, and Leonard : A Conversation With Matthew Ryan Mike Ragogna 2010
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Preoccupations are more mundane: clinics too far away with no drugs, police and officials who are crooks, land reform, drought, dirty water and crop failure.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Preoccupations are more mundane: clinics too far away with no drugs, police and officials who are crooks, land reform, drought, dirty water and crop failure.
Rome Resurgent 2009
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This is the question addressed in one of Heaneys 'best essays on literature and the' meaning 'of poetry,' Feeling into Words '(in Preoccupations, 1980).
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Preoccupations with personal behaviour, uptight morality and social status were once the hallmark of the small-minded shopkeeper.
Whaaat ? Laban 2005
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Preoccupations with personal behaviour, uptight morality and social status were once the hallmark of the small-minded shopkeeper.
Archive 2005-10-30 Laban 2005
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Preoccupations of artistsA ribbon of pavementAn emerald glade with a blue poolAn inspiring talk with Kenneth about homosexuality
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
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In the chapter on the Preoccupations of Bacon the reader may find help in making up his mind as to whether Bacon, with his many and onerous duties and occupations, his scientific studies, and his absorbing scientific preoccupation, is a probable author of the
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878
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If I say one thing one place, and something else elsewhere I can be called on that, if I run a biased campaign that can be noted. this interview, by Guy Savage of the marvellous His Futile Preoccupations blog which is here.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Richard Lea 2010
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