Interview – Alexander Poots On The Writing Northern Ireland
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From CS Lewis's bourgeois Protestant upbringing to Seamus Heaney's beautiful attempts at understanding his home, this episode I interview Alexander Poots author of The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland and ask what Northern Irish writers can teach us about the history of the area. Sign up to Patreon for the full interview.
You can read more about the book, here:
https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/alexander-poots/the-strangers-house/9781538701584/
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