Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose ... “You are confirmed by the visitation of the last poem and threatened by the elusiveness of the next one, and the best moments are those when your mind ...

Jollimore's new book of poems, "At Lake Scugog," will be published next year. Seamus Heaney is among the most famous and esteemed living poets. His 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature confirmed the ...

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.

Seamus Heaney was real. Were he a fictional character ... family loyalty—within him. Its best-known poems find metaphors for the Northern Irish conflict in acid-preserved Iron Age corpses ...

At one recent reading, a young student was heard lamenting, ‘I love Seamus Heaney! I just want him to give me a hug!’ With his passion for poetry and his genius for selecting verses we all ...

Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats," has ... Writer and literary critic Ola Larsmo said then that Heaney's poetry reveals "a profound experience ...

He was one of the world's best-known poets ... reading an excerpt of the poem, "Fosterling."'s business news starts a black budget illuminated. SEAMUS HEANEY: I can't remember not ever having ...

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

"He never really left the parish," says Dan Heaney, one of Seamus's brothers. Dan takes John to the sculpture of a turf digger and shares something few know about the genesis of the famous poem ...

Known in his native Ireland as “Famous Seamus,” Heaney was that rare writer who garnered critical acclaim while harvesting a large public audience. “The first poetry a writer feels he can ...