Savage Acres by Keith Payne baby loss Simon Armitage has written hundreds

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Savage Acres by Keith Payne baby loss Simon Armitage has written hundredsPublished 15th April 2025. The poems of Irish poet Keith Payne's Savage Acres explore the pivotal role of housing and, by extension, community in our lives. Keith Payne revisits the new urban estates of Ireland's capital city his own formative playing fields and their once marginalised and neglected inhabitants who, in time, would become central to the story of the city's imaginative resistance and cultural rebirth.