This article appears in the January 2025 print edition with the headline “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment.” ...

A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland ...

As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through ...

And yet – the 25 books of new and selected poems, the five books of prose, the two plays, based on Greek myths – that Seamus (1939-2013) created showed that he, so generous with his time with ...

A recently discovered archive of previously unseen letters, drawings and poems by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney - two of the great post-war poets - has been acquired by Pembroke College ...

Nobel prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney died today ... Cohen prize for lifetime achievement in 2009, he read two poems to exemplify his body of work, according to The Guardian.

Nandi Jola Nandi with the poets who took part in a commemoration event for Seamus Heaney last weekend One of her favourite Heaney poems is England's Difficulty, in which he wrote about how he ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Few poets have captured the imagination of the world like Seamus Heaney ... In mapping intersecting themes in the current terrain of Heaney ...