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”.

So, I wrote a book, ‘Seamus Heaney’s Gifts,’ about his interest in the gift-exchange rituals and the ethics of gift giving.” The book will be published later this year.

An Appreciation of Seamus Heaney’s Translation of ‘Beowulf’ 4 minute read <> at Archiginnasio on April 3, 2012 in Bologna, Italy. Getty Images—2012 Mario Carlini - Iguana Press ...

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 ...

The 50th anniversary of the publication of Seamus Heaney’s collection North, which saw the poet directly address the Northern Ireland Troubles for the first time, is to be marked. A three-day ...

Speaking about her student experience, Rosie said: “During my time at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s, my focus was on a nonfiction manuscript centred on the village where I now live ...

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 of the ...