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, ...
What is the opposite of poetry? What slows the spark and puts sludge in the veins? What deadens the language? What rears up before you with livid and stupefying power—in the middle of the night, in ...
Outgoing US President Joe Biden quoted Irish poet Seamus Heaney's poem "The Cure at Troy" on Monday, January 20 after he attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC. On Monday, ...
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has quoted Irish poet Seamus Heaney in his latest campaign video ahead of next Tuesday's presidential election. Biden recited a passage from Heaney's "The ...
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