"The Soil and Soul of Seamus Heaney"
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Seamus'Washington Post Obituary: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/irish-nobel-laureate-seamus-heaney-author-of-digging-mid-term-break-dies-at-74/2013/08/30/a0c4485e-1176-11e3-bdf6-e4fc677d94a1_story.html
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Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in County Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the author of over 20 volumes of poetry and...
1. The Ministry of Fear
for Seamus Deane . . .
for Seamus Deane . . .
I
He would drink by himself . . .
He would drink by himself . . .
I
Vowels ploughed into other: opened ground.
The mildest February for twenty years . . .
Vowels ploughed into other: opened ground.
The mildest February for twenty years . . .
I returned to a long strand,
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular . . .
the hammered curve of a bay,
and found only the secular . . .
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
. . .
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
. . .
Seamus Heaney in conversation with Michael Laskey, fellow poet and co-founder of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. This is an edited version of an interview recorded live at the Poetry Prom 2010 organised by The Poetry Trust. Enjoy more podcasts on...
Seamus Heaney is likely the best-selling English-language poet alive. Famous, at this point, for being famous (he received the Nobel Prize in 1995), Heaney began earning acclaim with his first book, Death of a Naturalist (1966). Critical interest...
PROSE FROM POETRY MAGAZINE
Eight Takes: Clover, Karr, Gregg, O'Callaghan, Bricuth, Jones, Hirshfield, Heaney
Eight Takes: Clover, Karr, Gregg, O'Callaghan, Bricuth, Jones, Hirshfield, Heaney
The Totality for Kids, by Joshua Clover. University of California Press. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. . . .
New Collected Poems, by Eavan Boland.W.W. Norton. $27.95. We open on a tiny flat in Dublin. A young poet sits by a window, writing. But something is wrong. The poem—eloquent, sonorous, carefully crafted—feels off. Studying the page, she...
Overture: violins:
it is all scraggy,
wideawake, . . .
it is all scraggy,
wideawake, . . .
by Seamus Heaney (read by Melissa Severin)
The editors pick highlights from an interview with Seamus Heaney and Fanny Howe's notebooks; and listen and comment on poems by Joan Houlihan, Roddy Lumsden, and Fred D'Aguiar.
How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.
Thursday, October 18, 2012 @ 6:00PM
Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney will give the 2012 Poetry Day reading. Born in 1939 at his family’s farm in Northern Ireland, Heaney published his first collection of poetry, Death of a Naturalist, in...
Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney will give the 2012 Poetry Day reading. Born in 1939 at his family’s farm in Northern Ireland, Heaney published his first collection of poetry, Death of a Naturalist, in...
In his native Ireland, he's known as "Famous Seamus," and indeed, Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995, is that rare bird: a world-famous poet. Now 72, his newest collection, Human Chain, is, as always for Heaney, grounded in the...
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