Shortly after Heaney left Williamsburg for a reading in Kentucky, he called Hart and asked him to pick up some Irish coins in his hotel room. They were intended as a gift to Hart’s two children.

Shortly after Heaney left Williamsburg for a reading in Kentucky, he called Hart and asked him to pick up some Irish coins in his hotel room. They were intended as a gift to Hart’s two children.

I had pulled from the shelf the U.K. version of “The Letters of Seamus Heaney,” published by Faber & Faber there in the late spring (and now here by Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 800-plus pages ...

Seamus Heaney Letters Collection Offers a Scoop of the Nobel Laureate — but No More Unfortunately, the editor readily concedes to the censoring eye of the publishing powers that be as well as to the ...

In his 1995 Nobel lecture, Heaney spoke of poetry’s “gift for telling truth” – and beyond that, its capacity “to be not only pleasurably right, but compellingly wise”.

Acclaimed actor Ben Whishaw will visit 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center on Wednesday, May 3 at 7:30 pm to deliver a dramatic reading of literary classics and poems translated over the years by the ...

Read: Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness The obvious comparison here is with 2007’s Letters of Ted Hughes, also edited by Christopher Reid.

Heaney was not pleased. He had indeed been born and raised on a small farm in Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, but had relocated south to the Republic in the 1970s.