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Sat 11 Nov 2002Books of the year: who read what in 2002What were the best books and who were their authors? Belinda McKeon finds out from people who should know: novelists, poets, historians, academics, critics, politicians and others.Michael LongleyPoet and criticThe Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Irish Poems, which he edited, was published this year. He is currently working on his eighth collection of poems