Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...
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 ...
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The Atlantic’s January Cover Story: Caitlin Flanagan on What the Poet Seamus Heaney Gave HerThe 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Susannah Dickey’s true crime-inspired collection wins inaugural PEN Heaney Prize with 'sheer brio'
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 ...
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