Ten years after his death, commentators and admirers of Ireland’s Nobel Laureate poet Seamus ... Heaney’s poetic career began with a reckoning of father and son in “Digging” and ends ...

A 1973 cloth-bound limited edition of the Globe Playhouse Trust-commissioned book of poetry by 14 contemporary poets including Seamus Heaney, entitled Poems for Shakespeare, (€200-€300 ...

Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best loved poets ... and shares something few know about the genesis of the famous poem, 'Digging'. They go to the Strand at Lough Beg where in the poem of ...

Perhaps since Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, poets have been using prose to understand how poems and poetry ... A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is a collection of 10 essays ...

The New York Times calls Seamus Heaney a “poet of the everyday,” and the Irish poet, teacher, critic, and translator likens his pen to his father’s spade, a tool with which he excavates truths both ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ten days before his death, on August 30th, 2013, Seamus Heaney put the finishing touches to a poem commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland, responding to one of its paintings, Gustave ...

Singer and human rights campaigner Joan Baez is to visit the home of Seamus Heaney for a poetry reading during a forthcoming visit to Ireland. Ms Baez (83) will attend a benefit screening of a ...