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

I had pulled from the shelf the U.K. version of “The Letters of Seamus Heaney,” published by Faber & Faber there in the late spring (and now here by Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 800-plus pages ...

When my older sister, Ellen, was 4 or 5, she and a neighbor girl were playing in the front yard of our Berkeley house. The friend, who lived across the street, was the daughter of a Lutheran ...

Celebrated Irish poet Seamus Heaney was a powerful voice for peace who touched the hearts of generations of readers. HE was a snowy-haired, craggy mountain of a man; a man who radiated granite ...

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 ...

Did the poems I had read, or the poetic tradition ... The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is a collection of 10 essays by Irish and US academics on a topic which, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The theme of this year’s contest is ‘Time’ – a subject tackled by everyone from Emily Dickinson to Simon Armitage ...

BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four programmes, each focusing on a different aspect of his work, each with a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet. Des ...

Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the achievement of poetry’ ...