BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four programmes, each focusing on a different aspect of his work, each with a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet.

In the collection of letters, I came across one he’d written ... Seamus Heaney.” And with that, the entire crowd began clapping. The announcer said that in addition to his great works and ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Few poets have captured the imagination of the world like Seamus Heaney. Recognized as one of the truly outstanding poets of our time, ...

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage shot between 1966 and 2004 That doesn't mean they can't be uncritical. While Kaila says Heaney's success in "addressing Irish themes in a ...

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 Heaney family continues to do such brilliant work in Seamus’ name ... “Susannah has written an extraordinary, inventive collection that challenges us, with playful parody, to examine ...