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 ...

When the editors of “The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry” made Seamus Heaney their star attraction in 1982 with 20 poems—British poetry, please note—they obtained permission ...

Faber has announced the publication of the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, featuring a number of previously unpublished poems from the Nobel Prize-winning poet.

We were fucked. But then—like a dream, like a magic fish bone—word arrived from Belfast that Seamus and Marie Heaney were coming down for the event, and that Seamus would write a poem.

Say Nothing,” by Seamus Heaney. It’s a sad and angry piece that looks at the unfolding tragedy of the Troubles, critiquing simultaneously the culture of enforced silence that repressed free ...

When people asked the poet Seamus Heaney what it was like to be living in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the start of the Troubles, he tended to downplay the violence: “Things aren’t too bad in ...