Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough — bogged down in Norse culture
The historian unearths a rich trove of artefacts and records to tell the tale of the ordinary lives of Vikings ...
BBC9 个月
Ted Hughes & Seamus Heaney: Will Gompertz reports on a previously hidden treasure trove
The Estate of Barrie Cooke Barrie Cooke's watercolour and ink illustration for Seamus Heaney's Bog Poems, 1975 (Pembroke College acquisition) The letters and notes reveal how Heaney developed some ...
London Review of Books1 个月
Political Poems: ‘Station Island’ by Seamus Heaney
As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through ...
The Atlantic26 天
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
Read: James Parker on the letters of Seamus Heaney One Heaney is fun ... Already the poem is turning, taking you to the place in the bog “where they dug him out,” wanting to see the ...
BBC1 年
Seamus Heaney: Digging through Nobel Prize winner's legacy
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 ...
来自MSN25 天
The Atlantic’s January Cover Story: Caitlin Flanagan on What the Poet Seamus Heaney Gave Her
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 ...