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| | Poet laureate hails province's prizewinners | UK News | The Observer |
 | | Motion said the influence of such established poets as Heaney and Longley was invaluable for the new generation of Northern Irish writers now emerging. |
 | | Maureen Boyle, one of the emerging poets, praised the work of the Queen's University Writers' Group and the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast for encouraging new writers. |
 | | Boyle, winner of the Strokestown and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize, said she believed the poetry reconnaissance was in part due to writers feeling less isolated. |
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