Seamus Heaney - In Memoriam

See where poet Seamus Heaney drew his inspiration from the land of his childhood....

All Through the Night edited by Marie Heaney is a collection of moving and evocative night poems for all stages of life. Lullabies and other poems relating to children and parenting form the opening section, while later poems celebrate or give voice to our various night-time pleasures and...

During this sonic dig---poet, archeologist and BBC producer Christine Finn drew upon the Poetry Room's recently digitized collection of over 40 Heaney recordings to construct and share “a new audio artifact,” made of “layerings of...

A compilation of our special weekend of remembering the life and work of Seamus Heaney.

Council gives green light for Heaney Farmhouse Brewery with taproom...

Your guide to being able to name-drop it in conversations without ever having read it....

Football has accrued its fair share of sound-bites and foot-in-mouth moments. The poems in this anthology strike an altogether more subtle note and take us to the very heart of why a seemingly straightforward team sport arouses such passion and commands such lifelong devotion. There’s a poem capturing the romance of children playing street football until it’s almost too dark to see the ball, and another in which going to the match is a rite of passage for an immigrant boy seeking to belong. There’s also an extra poem from the touchline written by editor Conor O’Callaghan. And, of course, there’s a poem depicting that iconic game played in no man’s land during the Christmas Truce: “All these boys want to hear today Is the final whistle. Let them walk away.” from ‘The Game: Christmas Day, 1914’ by Ian McMillan This mini-anthology demonstrates that the beautiful game is entirely worthy of the beautiful language of poetry. Poems by Simon Armitage, Tiffany Atkinson, Claire Crowther, Elaine Feeney, Miriam Gamble, Seamus Heaney, Gill Learner, Ian McMillan, Sean O’Brien, Conor O’Callaghan, George Szirtes and Sarah Wardle. Cover illustration by Hugh Ribbans.

Fishermen at Ballyshannon / Netted an infant last night / Along with the salmon. / An illegitimate spawning, / A small one thrown back / To the waters.But I'm sure / As she stood...

Facing Tercentenary Theatre, where Commencement is held outdoors every year, listen to the late Seamus Heaney read “Villanelle for an Anniversary,” which he composed in honor of Harvard’s 350th annive...

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A new film entitled A Journey to HomePlace, which is narrated by Hollywood actor Liam Neeson OBE, showcases Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland.

Not the one who takes up his bed and walks But the ones who have known him all along And carry him in — Their shoulders numb, the ache and stoop deeplocked In their backs, the stretcher handles...

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I Inishbofin on a Sunday morning. Sunlight, turfsmoke, seagulls, boatslip, diesel. One by one we were being handed down Into a boat that slipped and shilly-shallied Scaresomely every time.We sat tight On short cross-benches, in nervous twos and threes, Obedient, newly close, nobody speaking Except...

some sounds i found in the graveyard of bristol cathedral, paired with seamus heaney's 'strange fruit' i thought the idea of burial 'made strange' suited the pieced together and sometimes uncanny soun...

**Apostle** (homage to Seamus Heaney)

How do I poem a verse for a god of letters,

stumble out crafted phrases fit for his grandfatherly face?

‘Give up, sit down, keep your head below the parapet...