Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin
Thomas Neilson Paulinis a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 January 1949
CountryIreland
certain darkness heart irish-poet sort
Because there is a sort of amorphous, sort of darkness at the heart of things, because there is a certain kind of complacency and individualism.
thinking ideas flying
I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
facts london submission
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
israel support zionist
Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.
israel
I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.
thinking facts boost
I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.
country thinking people
I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
responsibility israel views
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
zionist
You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
book worry hobbies
All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.
writing wish way
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
kind
I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.
jobs real thinking
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.
ideas fire tears
Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing