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Date of Birth
He was born in Northern Ireland. He was the eldest of three children. His father worked as a farmer and mother was a school-mistress. -
Belfast Group of poets
In 1969, this poet was honoured to read English at Queen's University Belfast, where he met Seamus Heaney and became close to the Belfast Group of poets. -
First wedding
At that time he fell in love with a beautiful girl whom he married after graduation. -
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BBC
He had been with the BBC in Belfast for thirteen years. -
Second wedding
He is married to novelist whom he met at an Arvon writing course. He has got two children. -
The T. S. Eliot Prize
The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prestigious prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. -
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Professor of Poetry
He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University for the five-year term. -
The Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and ONE international poet who writes in the English language. -
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year. -
The Shakespeare Prize
The Shakespeare Prize was an annual prize for writing or performance awarded to a British citizen by the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation.
