Edna Longley Quotes:
Life: b. 1940
Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.
source: "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009. 
topic: Culture, Denial, Way, National Culture
