That art of digging can help us create our own path to a brighter future." For more on the Nobel Prize winner, you can listen to The Four Sides of Seamus Heaney on BBC Sounds now.

We were fucked. But then—like a dream, like a magic fish bone—word arrived from Belfast that Seamus and Marie Heaney were coming down for the event, and that Seamus would write a poem.

She writes: “Seamus gave me the one thing I desperately needed growing up in that crazy family: my certificate of belonging.” In 1970, Heaney arrived in California with his family to spend the ...

"The image of a man digging turf means a lot to me but to ... Marie-Louise Muir took the opportunity of the unveilling to interview Seamus Heaney for Arts Extra. Listen to the interview in full: ...

Dickey was revealed as the winner at a ceremony on Monday evening (2nd December) held at the Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast, in partnership with the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s.