Clodagh Havel
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And yeah, Macbeth, learn your quotes.
Right, absolutely, absolutely.
Right, the poetry every year.
Well, you know, David, since...
COVID, we've had this extra poet on the paper and it has negated this massive debate every year as to what poet is going to come up.
So if you go in knowing four out of the eight studied poets, you are now guaranteed a question because there are five poets on the course.
I suppose I'm going to anticipate your question.
I mean, I would go Elizabeth Bishop.
I would go Paula Meehan.
I would go John Donne.
And I would go Seamus Heaney.
And you could actually go in knowing those four and be guaranteed a question.
But to be guaranteed a choice...
I would add maybe Nick Whelanon into that.
It actually leaves out the other three that, wait till you see, they'll come up.
But I do feel that choose the poets that you actually like.
Don't take the noise around, oh, I'm doing Bishop because she's guaranteed to come up.