Reading Facebook today, I was taken aback by Louis de Bernieres’ comments on being interviewed by Carlo Gerber at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belleghy, Ireland:
“At the end, at ‘question time’, someone asked me to read a particular poem of mine, which was very flattering. That’s never happened before. I feel that if the Irish like your poetry, then you must be a good poet, as no-one else has an equal flair or love for it (apart from the Greeks).”
As I lived in Middleton, Ireland, happily immersed in their poetic atmosphere for 14 glorious months, I replied:
“It’s true, if the discerning Irish like your words and call them ‘poetry’, you’ve certainly earned the title ‘poet’. Wear it proudly. (I’m off to buy your book.)”
So I signed in to my Amazon Kindle Bookshop (my shelves are groaning…
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