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...Its exotic roll call has been eulogised by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney — “Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea:/Green, swift upsurges, north Atlantic flux/Conjured by that strong gale-warning voice,/Collapse...
...In his Oxford lectures, Seamus Heaney argued that a poem draws a picture of reality, a “glimpsed alternative” that sets up a contradiction with your own, in ways little and large....
...Heard often on BBC Radio 4 — especially over the festive period — he lost out to Seamus Heaney in the election to the professorship of poetry at Oxford in 1989....
...Seamus Heaney’s deathbed words — “Don’t be afraid” in Latin — are tattooed on his arm....
...Vaillant’s references to Nassim Taleb, Lucretius, Seamus Heaney, The Lord of the Rings, Xerxes, and Moby-Dick can grate....
...His top poet is Ireland’s late Seamus Heaney. The holiday he most relishes is St Patrick’s Day....
.../I’ll dig with it,” as Seamus Heaney put it in his 1966 poem, “Digging”. But handwriting’s scholastic fortress is under siege....
...“Seamus Heaney was a friend. They collected lovely Irish art, like Basil Blackshaw and Colin Middleton, Ireland’s only surrealist painter,” he says....
...Field Day is one of the few cultural contexts in which a reference to “Seamus” generally means Deane, not Heaney. “Well of course, Heaney was incredibly important....
...The exhibition on Seamus Heaney, “Listen Now Again”, was in three smallish rooms at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre....
...The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney described this prehistoric Dane with humane tenderness: “The grain of his wrists like bog oak . . ....
...In Seamus Heaney’s Nobel lecture of 1995, the newly crowned laureate paid his dues to his literary ancestors....
...Growing up, my siblings and I knew that we were welcome to help ourselves to our father’s books, from Milan Kundera to Nadine Gordimer, Salman Rushdie to Virginia Woolf, Seamus Heaney to the Bhagavad Gita...
...On Wednesday Biden touted his Irish heritage and quoted the Irish poet Seamus Heaney....
...The panel seems to have read every available English translation, and listening to this layered, nuanced discussion of how different authors from Seamus Heaney to Maria Dahvana Headley have interpreted the...
...The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney fled when confronted with a slather of breeding frogs as a boy: “The great slime kings were gathered there for vengeance,” he later wrote, “and I knew that if I dipped...
...It arrives in Seamus Heaney-esque beauty with its “heavy and rich, coagulated sunlight . . . heaped up like gilded gravel in the bowl” from the local farm....
...More recently, Biden’s decision last week to light up a White House fountain in green for St Patrick’s day and quote Irish poet Seamus Heaney drew widespread coverage....
...As Marie Heaney observes with satisfaction, it’s hard to imagine that happening anywhere else for a poet. ★★★★☆ ‘Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ airs November 30 on BBC2 Follow @FTLifeArts...
...Jan Dalley FT ARTS EDITOR It’s not the done thing to choose a book of which I’m the dedicatee: even so, RF Foster’s On Seamus Heaney, which is short but runs deep, was for me the richest food for the spirit...
...That means no Seamus Heaney. Ditch modern fiction and you lose William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Or could you bear to forgo Jane Austen?...
...Inspired by poet Seamus Heaney’s moving description of “a sunlit absence” in a poem dedicated to his aunt and by the potency of the empty chair as a symbol of loss, the theatre has invited people to send...
...Before reaching this place of captivating brightness, of savage beauty (as, respectively, Seamus Heaney and Oscar Wilde described it), the road to Connemara takes you first to the City of the Tribes: Galway...
...In Los Angeles, he quoted the Irish poet Seamus Heaney: “History says don’t hope on this side of the grave, but then once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history...
...Take or leave the poems an Ireland-dwelling Briton sprinkles through his book: not exactly Seamus Heaney, though touching, allusive, sometimes tersely lyrical....
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