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AWARD winning Irish poet Kevin Higgins says he has been blacklisted by the Irish Times over a satirical poem lampooning the newspaper’s European Parliament correspondent.
Mr Higgins, who lives in Galway, wrote a piece in response to an article written by Naomi O’Reilly which mocked Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, MEPs who have criticised the EU and Nato response to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
She accused the pair of being “stars of authoritarian state media,” in particular Chinese, Russian and Syrian.
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At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician
