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 ...

When my older sister, Ellen, was 4 or 5, she and a neighbor girl were playing in the front yard of our Berkeley house. The friend, who lived across the street, was the daughter of a Lutheran ...

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 ...

Join John for this fascinating exploration of how and why Seamus Heaney used visual art - paintings, sculptures and photographs - in poems and texts to frame what he felt and thought about the world.

I had a column titled Poems by Heart. The column drew responses from many readers, which I will publish in due course. (Thank ...

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It feels a more expansive, ambitious, collection, with epistolary poems ... list of alternative names for a familiar view: “Place of Cool Sun; Rain’s Last Outpost; First Home”. Seamus Heaney ...

For our December event we have arranged a screening of the 1970 film Ulster in Focus: A Christmas Garland. We will also be looking at some of the Christmas cards made and sent by Heaney.

In the final episode of Political Poems, Mark and Seamus discuss ‘Little Gidding’, the fourth poem of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Emerging out of Eliot’s experiences of the Blitz, ‘Little Gidding’ ...