Question

In a poem by Seamus Heaney, the speaker says that a collection by this author was like “a bridge I had passed under— / The single span and bull’s eye of the one / Over the railway lines at Anahorish.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who collaborated with Heaney on the anthology The Rattle Bag. After this poet’s death, Seamus Heaney wrote a poem titled “On First Looking Into” this author’s collection Birthday Letters.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes
[10e] Hughes and Heaney’s mutual friend Barrie Cooke, with whom they went fishing, illustrated a Hughes poem about a “Great Pike” from this country. Seamus Heaney is from this country.
ANSWER: Ireland [or Republic of Ireland or Éire; accept “Great Irish Pike”]
[10h] In Heaney’s poem “Twice Shy,” the speaker compares a walk to these animals’ conduct. Hughes wrote about one of these animals mixing “his heart’s blood with the mire of the land” in a poem that titles his first collection.
ANSWER: hawks [accept “The Hawk in the Rain”]
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Michigan APitt A1010020
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