There is no shortage of writing by or about Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Heaney. Yet this big book is a unique and useful addition to the Heaney canon: beginning in 2001, the Dublin-based poet, ...

As the title suggests, this new collection from the 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize is a study in balance. Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of history ...

Photograph by Mariana Cook, 2001. This text was delivered as the eulogy at Seamus Heaney’s funeral, which took place in Dublin on September 2, 2013. I called the Heaney house once years ago. Maybe ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish Nobel laureate in literature, died on Friday in Dublin. He was 74. Heaney had been hospitalized on Thursday following a fall, according to Heaney’s friend and fellow Irish ...

Seamus Heaney is to be buried beside the little brother who inspired one of his most famous poems. The poem “Mid Term Break” tells the story of Seamus’s return home from boarding school for the wake ...

And, in fact, it often seems that our digital communications platforms–best represented by the internet–are a kind of wizardry. The internet allows me to transmit, reproduce, and retrieve meaning ...