- collecting basin for area precipitation and a series of channels to conduct the water out of the area and toward the sea. - an interconnected group of streams. - collects water over a large area. - drains water toward the ocean.
A A A. Email. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984.
Seamus Heaney: his 10 best poems. From his extensive oeuvre, here are some of the Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner's best lines. From Death of a Naturalist, published 1966. In the shade of the banks. Written in 1966, on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.