Therese Flanagan

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Seamus Heaney : "the keeper of language"

the keeper of language : The Irish Times 

Seamus Heaney died today in Dublin.  He was one of my early poetry loves. 

 

Seamus Heaney - NYT

 

Seamus Heaney - Walking on air against his better judgment - The Boston Globe 

 

I was fortunate enough to be able to get tickets to a reading he gave in Chicago last October. He was here to help us celebrate the 100th anniversary of Poetry magazine. What a lovely evening it was!

Reading: Seamus Heaney 

 

 

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Seamus Heaney - The Art of Poetry No. 75 - Paris Review 

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 was awarded to Seamus Heaney. This is his Nobel Lecture, Crediting Poetry