Modern Poetry In Translation - On Seamus Heaney By David Constantine | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it

It is usual to say, truthfully and consolingly, after the death of a poet that the work lives on and will continue to do good. However personal its origins, a poem is always also for somebody else, for strangers, for the not-yet-born. Still a man as loved as Seamus Heaney, dying, he leaves a great gap.

Pretty soon in the sadness after his d..