The Estate of Barrie Cooke Barrie Cooke's watercolour and ink illustration for Seamus Heaney's Bog Poems, 1975 (Pembroke College acquisition) The letters and notes reveal how Heaney developed some ...
Read: James Parker on the letters of Seamus Heaney One Heaney is fun ... Already the poem is turning, taking you to the place in the bog “where they dug him out,” wanting to see the ...
In Seamus Heaney’s 1975 poem “The Grauballe Man”, a human sacrifice victim unearthed from a Danish peat bog “seems to weep/ the black river of himself”. Pickled and mummified ...
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 ...
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 ...
The discovery was made by archeologists within the Police Services of Northern Ireland in Bellaghy, a village about 45 minutes northwest of Belfast ...
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 ...