Writers Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage have been speaking to the BBC about their love of poetry. In an interview with the Today programme's James Naughtie, Seamus Heaney remembered how he felt ...

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 ...

Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has given a rare poetry and art book to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. Happenstance was created by the painter Brian Ballard and poet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry ... Alongside new addition ‘Digging’, these poems would make Heaney an international poetry star. He combines gentle observations of rural Ireland ...

When you speak to Leonie about Digging, or Kaila about ... took part in a commemoration event for Seamus Heaney last weekend One of her favourite Heaney poems is England's Difficulty, in which ...