I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh. Seamus Heaney dermothealyheir Change image and share on social
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. Seamus Heaney artdomestichome Change image and share on social
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. Seamus Heaney risktruthworld Change image and share on social
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example. Seamus Heaney acquireadultbehalf share on social
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. Seamus Heaney absolutionachieveadmire Change image and share on social
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. Seamus Heaney backgroundcareerfarm Change image and share on social
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. Seamus Heaney graduateheartlearn Change image and share on social
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. Seamus Heaney fakeintensitypoetry Change image and share on social
The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it. Seamus Heaney afternoonawarebuy share on social
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. Seamus Heaney assentawardcome Change image and share on social
