Left: Seamus Heaney, the literary critic F ... “The Tollund Man,” a terrifying abduction of a poem that casually welcomes you on a short journey before grabbing hold of you and taking you ...
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 ...
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 ...
For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who grew up in a family of Berkeley, California, academics — that includes her unlikely life-long connection with Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney ...