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- Created by
- Conrad Atkinson born 1940
- Title
- Poem about Northern Ireland by Seamus Heaney
- Date
- [c.1975]
- Medium
- Printed text on paper
- Dimensions
- 210 × 147 mm
- Description
- This poem by Seamus Heaney: 'So won't you now step off the carousel? There's no alternative to intercourse. However scary or exasperating, Hating the buggers only makes them worse.', may have been exhibited at 'A Shade of Green, An Orange Edge', by Conrad Atkinson, at the Art Council Gallery, Belfast in May 1975.
- Format
- Document - writings
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased by Tate Archive from Margaret Harrison, November 2010.
- Reference
- TGA 201020/3/16
Archive context
- Material relating to works by Conrad Atkinson TGA 201020 (160)
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