Seamus Heaney was real. Were he a fictional character, however, we likely would call him unrealistic, his life story and his career too good to be true. Like Robert Frost and W. H. Auden, but perhaps ...

Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, died today at 74. He was one of the few poets in the 21st century to bridge the gap between critical success and popular appeal, and he did it by ...

Seamus Heaney’s Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 [1] makes it possible to form something like a comprehensive picture of the Irish poet’s work. Slowly but unmistakably over the past thirty ...

Search for “bog” in this new edition of Seamus Heaney’s poems and you will find the word some 60 times; the 1,200 tissue-thin pages are mulchy with “the squelch and slap of soggy peat”. There is the ...

"Four Sides of Seamus Heaney," debuted Sunday, August 20, 2023, and comprises of four programs, each focusing on a different aspect of Heaney's work, each with a different presenter with personal ...

Ten years after his death, commentators and admirers of Ireland’s Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney are still looking for new ways to measure his life and work. His official biographer described him ...

This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. There will soon be a huge volume of collected Poems of Seamus Heaney (1,100 ...

THE cat was lucky the box was too big to push through the letterbox, for had it landed on him nine lives would have been no use. The box in question contained the life’s work of a writer who ...

When people asked the poet Seamus Heaney what it was like to be living in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the start of the Troubles, he tended to downplay the violence: “Things aren’t too bad in our ...