Poetic Champions

These two panels were created by Ross Wilson (web) along with children from four local Ballymoney schools (BBC | NI World). They portray two famous poets from Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney and John Hewitt and include a line from a work of each:

Seamus Heaney’s “Believe that a further shore is reachable from here”, comes from The Cure At Troy (youtube).

The quotation from John Hewitt is the first line of the poem I Write For: “I write for my own kind, I do not pitch my voice that every phrase be heard by those who have no choice.”

Castlecroft Square, Ballymoney

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