Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of history-and how history can alter the emotional weight... Fluent, enjoyable and often masterful, this 11th ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps since Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, poets have been using prose to understand how poems and poetry work. Something about the procedures of prose, its civilities and ...

ARCHIVE: Watch Seamus Heaney reciting his work in footage ... queer people and those outside of Northern Ireland who now call it home". Heaney, she says, opened that door. If that is so, South ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.