The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast is marking the 50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection ...

William Logan on new volumes and editions by Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Brad Leithauser, Dorothy Parker & Claudia Emerson ...

Seamus Heaney was born on this day ... "When All The Others Were Away at Mass," which was named Ireland’s best-loved poem of the past 100 years in RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland poll in 2015.

Left: Seamus Heaney, the literary critic F ... How is anyone chosen? The famous last stanza of the poem is the answer to the question people didn’t even know how to pose about the river of ...

It’s ordinarily only the famous who first ... project and to have the poem like a little pennant on the great craft you are launching. Success attend you. Seamus Heaney. PS Can you add ...

By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early ... to reach a much larger audience than poetry generally enjoys. Readers felt his death ...

By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early ... to reach a much larger audience than poetry generally enjoys. Readers felt his death ...

By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in his life ... all the unusual capacity to reach a much larger audience than poetry generally enjoys.

Heaney is famous for his depictions rural ... Heaney says, “So from the beginning, Portland, poetry, and promise have all been linked together.” Bio: Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as ...

“I do it because they’re the best ... Heaney again now? Heaney’s vision of the moment when “hope and history rhyme” can easily be dismissed as rhetorical window-dressing, the poetry ...

“I do it because they’re the best poets.” Heaney’s 1991 poem is often seen in reference to The Troubles — the three decades-long period of conflict in Northern Ireland ...