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    Connemara Greening
    Connemara Greening
    Connemara Greening
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    Connemara Greening

    By Keith MacNider

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    'The poetry of Keith MacNider is like a ground spring, rising from deep within and lifting the reader to the airy grace of rivers, trees, stones, clouds, and to our human connection to the past and to the land. As a boy in Hong Kong, Keith spent hours lying in grassy fields, looking at the clouds - thinking, and listening to the lang

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateSep 13, 2022
    ISBN9781761093777
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