That art of digging can help us create our own path to a brighter future." For more on the Nobel Prize winner, you can listen to The Four Sides of Seamus Heaney on BBC Sounds now.

It was addressed to a woman called Sophia Hillan, but to Mr Law's delight it was signed by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. At the time he did not think it would be possible to find the owner.

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 ...

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 ...