That art of digging can help us create our own path to a brighter future." For more on the Nobel Prize winner, you can listen to The Four Sides of Seamus Heaney on BBC Sounds now.

Poet Seamus Heaney eventually became somewhat of a second father to Caitlin Flanagan, guiding her through the years and ...

Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...

Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winner and one of the most famous, and finest, poets writing in English, died in August 2013. BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four ...

As the title suggests, this new collection from the 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize is a study in balance. Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of ...

A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel ...

What late poet Seamus Heaney’s last text tells us about our digital lives The short text that the Nobel-prize winning Irish poet sent to his wife before his death says so much about the magic ...

Mr Heaney is among Ireland's best known poets and he received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work. The Seamus Heaney Centre was founded in 2004 under its first director, the late ...

Bríd Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea give a new reading of the debut poetry collection by the Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Seamus Heaney, specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to ...

It is co-ordinated by English PEN, together with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus Heaney. The inaugural PEN Heaney Prize was judged by poets Nick Laird, Paula Meehan and Shazea ...