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

JOE BIDEN HAS wrapped up a more than 50-year political career but promised that “we’re not leaving the fight” as he said farewell to the presidency and flew to California.

Outgoing US President Joe Biden quoted Irish poet Seamus Heaney's poem "The Cure at Troy" on Monday, January 20 after he attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC.

But that is far from the only Yeats line that Biden has at the tip of his tongue. "Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say, my glory was I had such friends," Biden recited at a White ...

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”.

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 ...

“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.

Seamus Heaney lost his Catholic faith. But his poetry still sought transcendence. Paul Corcoran September 15, 2023 ...

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.

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.