The families were so close that on the occasion of Caitlin and her sister’s baptisms into the Catholic Church in 1971, Heaney wrote the girls a poem. Caitlin writes, “When Seamus stood up and ...

On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...

Heather Corbally Bryant is a Senior Lecturer at Wellesley College, the author of a prize-winning study of Elizabeth Bowen, ...

An Irishman living with a stutter said it was "an emotional experience" to recite a Seamus Heaney poem to US President Joe Biden on St Patrick's Day. Jamie Googan, founder of Stuttering ...

BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four programmes, each focusing on a different aspect of his work, each with a different presenter with personal knowledge of the poet. Des ...

Why read poetry? Why stand still and tune into poetry’s cadences in a madly spinning world? Because poetry, as the wise Irish ...

be careful to include only details that reveal something about the poem. Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He lived in Mossbawn with his father and mother.

Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell ... David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of Political Poems, about what makes a great political poem. Can great ...

Using our patented one to four shamrock rating system (four being the most obvious, but also still awesome), here are our St. Patrick’s Day season concert picks.