Ahead of the publication of a new edition of Homer’s epics—which he has illustrated—the artist also explains why he switches ...

Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.

“It’s impossible, I think, to like poetry and not like Seamus Heaney,” offers Skinner, who counts Alexander Pope, Robert Frost and Gerard Manley Hopkins among his favourites.

In a harrowing scene (and there are many harrowing moments), they hide from them, their possessions strewn around, one of them being Paddy Dillon’s book The South West Coast Path. And also Seamus ...

That’s an aspect of the story that Elliott has captured well – a sense of unexpected community and even a dash of theatricality when Moth breaks out Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf to an ...

Seamus Heaney described his “unpretentiousness and shyness”. Reportedly, though friendly, he didn’t mix much with his contemporaries.

Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has given a rare poetry and art book to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. Happenstance was created by the painter Brian Ballard and poet ...

Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has given a rare poetry and art book to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. Happenstance was created by the painter Brian Ballard and poet and ...

Hart’s new book, “Seamus Heaney’s Gifts,” was published in 2024 by Louisiana State University Press and won the Lewis P. Simpson Award for the best book of literary criticism.