Seamus heaney

Celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the late poet’s birth are helping to defuse old tensions aggravated by Brexit

Today marks 10 years since the passing of our own noble poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney. Reflecting today on my most favourite Heaney poem and...

Seamus Heaney, The Forge. 💞🌍🌎🌏💞 Reference: Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: poems 1966 -1996, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

The Irish writer and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30 in Dublin, was for the last forty years both a contributor to The New York Review of Books and one of its frequent subjects. In 1973, Stephen Spender, reviewing books of poetry by Thom Gunn, W.S. Merwin, James Merrill, James Schuyler, Philip Levine, Kenneth Koch, and Heaney, wrote: > It is difficult to know what to say about Seamus Heaney except that he is very good, very Irish, very honest. His poems are, I suppose…

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney's 'Blackberry-Picking' is all about childhood ideals versus adult realities and the passage of time. The first stanza outlines the joy of picking, that lust for the juicy fruit, whilst the second stanza contrasts the fate of the berries, their inevitable decay and loss of goodness.

Homemade cultured butter, or as Irish poet Seamus Heaney called it, “coagulated sunlight”🌞

A Seamus Heaney quote about writing. #seamusheaney #writing #amwriting #poetquote #poetquotes

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"Follower" by Seamus Heaney