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Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age

Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in ...
The New Yorker

“The Race”

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 ...

Tom Collins: In praise of Seamus Heaney, a man who gave the north back its dignity

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

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s Poetry Formed by Sacraments and the Soil of Ireland

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 ...