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Hello and welcome to Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast. Okay, I'm going to take you back to March 2024.

I was on tour and doing a gig in Belfast.

So my tour manager, Omar, gone in touch with the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University in Belfast.

He knows my love of Heaney and I had dropped a few hints that I'd like to go and see what was there and meet some of the people.

And I did exactly that. We went along. Everyone was absolutely

fantastic. Everyone really loved poetry. And I could just talk about poetry and poems without people

thinking I was a weirdo and that's always lovely. It's like when I go to somewhere like Italy

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