For a long period in the 1970s, the poet Seamus Heaney and his metaphors coincided with uncanny perfection. In ”Wintering Out” (1972) and ”North” (1975), the prehistoric, superstitious, North-European ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue to be very much alive — and in them, he is first and foremost a poet whose poems you feel in your mouth. Pronouncing the words as he describes a ...

The last poem Seamus Heaney completed appears towards the end of this magisterial book. It was commissioned by the National Gallery to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The final draft of the poem was ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

Seamus Heaney’s 1995 Nobel Prize consolidated his place among the most revered English-language poets in the world. Cited by the Nobel committee “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which ...

Les Murray is a cantankerous Catholic poet who grew up on a dairy farm in New South Wales and dedicates his books “to the glory of God.” This makes him sound like a more religious, Australian Seamus ...

Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats [Getty Images] A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," ...