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 ...

He says there that Seamus Heaney ‘has engaged as critic with the poetic achievement of Yeats more fully than any other Irish poet since MacNeice’ – who published the first critical book on Yeats in ...

If, as Seamus Heaney says, quoting Borges, 'poetry lies in the meeting of poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on pages', then we might recognise that the issues involved in the ...

BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four programmes, each focusing on a different aspect of his work, each with a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet. Des ...

be careful to include only details that reveal something about the poem. Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This poem was published in his second poetry ...

SEAMUS Heaney, one of the world's finest writers and already famed for turning the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf into a bestseller, has now turned his acclaimed translating skills to one of the key ...

From animals and family life to goofy people and more, these funny poems are guaranteed to make you laugh! Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a commission from ...

The new £4.9m development at the university’s Seamus Heaney Centre is set to honour the legacy of the Poet Laureate and look ahead to the future of poetry and creative writing in Ireland.

Sassoon's poetry of caustic realism quickly found its way into Owen’s work, where it merged with the high romantic sublime of his other great influences, Keats and Shelley. Mark and Seamus discuss the ...

Adam is Gboyega Odubanjo’s first full-length book of poetry. As far as I know ... in this case from Seamus Heaney. It’s a nod to “Digging”, and Heaney’s father, whose “straining ...

Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre ... of England freed from the tyranny and anarchy of its institutions. As Mark and Seamus discuss in this episode, ...

Poet Seamus Heaney, 74, Dug the 'Wideness of Language' With His Pen… Arts Aug 30 Nobel Laureate, World Famous Poet Seamus Heaney Dies at 74 Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth ...