Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage and More to Celebrate Renaissance Artist Titian July 3, 2012: In an exciting marriage of art, dance, music, and poetry, the London Ballet and the National Gallery have joined forces with notable poets to celebrate Titian, a 16th-century Italian painter. Fourteen poets, including Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, and Simon Armitage, were selected by a panel led by A.S. Byatt. Each composed short poems [...] by Harriet Staff