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Guerrillas by Seamus Deane
POETRY
Seamus Deane’s beautiful poem probably derives from the experience of a child in the port city of Derry, encountering the foreign sailors and witnessing the city’s response to them.
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Loyalist Strike: In The Suburbs
March 3rd 1986
All February, no rain fell. Not a whisper
to lick the dusty glass, just the frost
having a long lie, stretched over the garden,
ignoring the dry cracked soil round its edges.
That morning, the little houses sat sullenly
tensing themselves for the power cuts, drawing
back into their shells, like frightened