What did people want from Seamus Heaney at that time? Everything. There was tremendous pressure for him to turn his poetry into a ... often to some of his most famous lines, from The Cure at ...

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’ ...

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 ...

But the best poetry is also “the most purposeful”, a good part of ... The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose is a collection of 10 essays by Irish and US academics on ...

As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney ... poem, which wrestles with the inescapability of politics. Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our ...

The festive focused broadcast will take place on Sunday, December 1 with Seamus Heaney’s Christmas poems being the centre of attention. The broadcast will also draw attention to Christmas musical ...

The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland; Questioning Ireland by Thomas McCarthy The ...

Join English PEN, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the Estate of Seamus ... volume of poetry, published in the UK or Ireland, of outstanding literary merit that engages with the impact of cultural or ...

To celebrate New Year's Eve and New Year's Day we've collected some of our favourite New Year poems, from famous poems such as 'Auld Lang Syne', to lesser-known ... Auden, William Blake, Emily ...

CONTINUE READING BELOW PHOTO PICTURED: Isabel O'Leary has been recognised as a finalist in the 2024 Poetry Aloud competition. The late poet Seamus Heaney was a supporter of the Poetry Aloud ...

For our December event we have arranged a screening of the 1970 film Ulster in Focus: A Christmas Garland. We will also be looking at some of the Christmas cards made and sent by Heaney.

Day by day Dorothy Wordsworth celebrated spring’s arrival in her ‘Alfoxden Journal’ while her brother and Coleridge wrote the poems that would make up one of the world’s most famous books, Lyrical ...