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CAMPAIGN by CIARAN CARSON

First Line: THEY HAD QUESTIONED HIM FOR HOURS. WHO EXACTLY WAS HE?
Last Line: DRAWING PINTS FOR STRANGERS, HIS ALMOST-PERFECT FINGERS FLECKED WITH SCUM
Subject(s): BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND; IRISH UNIFICATION QUESTION;

Poem Sources:

POETRY WITH AN EDGE.
  ASTLEY, NEIL (ED.)
  (1988)
 
POETS FROM THE NORTH OF IRELAND
  ORMSBY, FRANK (ED.)
  (1990)
 



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