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 ...

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 ... of which can be seen from a short postscript entry he made in ...

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 ...

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 ...