Taking part will be several of the poetry world's leading lights, including Irish writer Seamus Heaney, New Zealand's Bill Manhire and former US poet laureate Kay Ryan.

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Next week 24 poets including Kay Ryan, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Mark Strand and the brothers Matthew and Michael Dickman will converge in Newark, N.

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The event has attracted poets of all ages, continents and literary stature -- from Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney (Ireland) and Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) to Poet Laureates Kay Ryan (U.S.) to Bill Manhire (New Zealand).

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He minds his own business until he falls for Kay (Meg Ryan) and finds himself dragged back to the wickedness of the past.

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