In a sense Digging is Heaney’s foundation poem, always appearing first in the many volumes of ‘selected poems’ culled from ...

It’s ordinarily only the famous who first approach a nonfiction book by thumbing through the index, looking for their own name. Unfamous, I nevertheless found myself doing just that this past summer ...

Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert ...

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet and is considered the greatest Irish poet of the latter half of the 20th century. He was awarded several prestigious literary prizes to support this claim, ...

Seamus Heaney, who died in 2013, was a Nobel Prize-winning poet and translator. “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” (2025) is a volume of his collected verse. “The festival of eariwigs dispersed as I dragged ...

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 ...

Seamus Heaney, who died in 2013, was a Nobel Prize-winning poet and translator. “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” (2025) is a volume of his collected verse. “The festival of eariwigs dispersed as I dragged ...

On the 40th anniversary of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s Nobel prize, Cambridge University Press has published Seamus Heaney and Catholicism, an in-depth study by Irish writer Gary Wade examining the ...

In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...