We were fucked. But then—like a dream, like a magic fish bone—word arrived from Belfast that Seamus and Marie Heaney were coming down for the event, and that Seamus would write a poem.

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 ...

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

On this day 10 years ago, one of Ireland and the world's most famous poets, Seamus Heaney, died at the age of 74. But how is he viewed in 2023? We asked six people - from teenage writers to ...

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 ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Few poets have captured the imagination of the world like Seamus Heaney. Recognized as one of the truly outstanding poets of our time, ...