Seamus Heaney

Theater Interview: Staging “Beowulf” for the Holidays

December 7, 2015
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“Mostly I want people to enjoy a feast of language, imagery, story, and the power of the actor to incite the imagination.”

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Poetry Appreciation: Seamus Heaney — “You’ll know them if I can get them true”

November 30, 2013
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Throughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.

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Poetry Review: Heaney Still

October 7, 2011
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Must age diminish a great poet’s strengths? If I grant that age has such power, I’m left to ponder the truly strange fact that death does not.

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