POET
Seamus Heaney (1939 - )
BIOGRAPHY
Born on a farm in Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney (1939—) received a scholarship and left his family at age 12. A widely-read and accessible poet, Heaney’s subject matter often remains with his roots—rural life in Ireland. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and was formerly named the prestigious Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.
Translations
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.
AUDIO
Poetry Off the Shelf
Bloody Sunday & the Fisherman's Ghost
How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.
The Poetry Magazine Podcast
Her Victorian Roots are Showing
The editors pick highlights from an interview with Seamus Heaney and Fanny Howe's notebooks; and listen and comment on poems by Joan Houlihan, Roddy Lumsden, and Fred D'Aguiar.
BOOKS
District and Circle
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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