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.

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, ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps since Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, poets have been using prose to understand how poems and poetry work. Something about the procedures of prose, its civilities and ...

For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who grew up in a family of Berkeley, California, academics — that includes her unlikely life-long connection with Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney ...

John Toal introduces seasonal music, features and live performances from pianist Michael McHale and folk musician Nodlaig Ní Bhrollaigh at The Seamus Heaney HomePlace. Show more Join John Toal at ...