When my older sister, Ellen, was 4 or 5, she and a neighbor girl were playing in the front yard of our Berkeley house. The friend, who lived across the street, was the daughter of a Lutheran ...

Seamus and Mark explore Heaney’s unusually autobiographical poem, which wrestles with the inescapability of politics. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full ...

Nandi Jola Nandi with the poets who took part in a commemoration event for Seamus Heaney last weekend One of her favourite Heaney poems is England's Difficulty, in which he wrote about how he ...

Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea read the 1966 debut poetry collection by Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Seamus Heaney to mark the tenth anniversary of his death.

I first heard Seamus ... have found his poetry working like a double-edged weapon, rooted in the real world, while it has the ability to transcend it. Just as in ‘Stern’, Heaney stands on ...

The families were so close that on the occasion of Caitlin and her sister’s baptisms into the Catholic Church in 1971, Heaney wrote the girls a poem. Caitlin writes, “When Seamus stood up and ...

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney - two of the great post-war poets - has been acquired by Pembroke College ...

The Heaney family continues to do such brilliant work in Seamus’ name, and the mission statement of this prize is such a necessary one. “I believe poetry to be uniquely capable of querying and ...

Join John for this fascinating exploration of how and why Seamus Heaney used visual art - paintings, sculptures and photographs - in poems and texts to frame what he felt and thought about the world.