Heaney, best known as a poet and for his acclaimed translation of "Beowulf," will receive $50,000 for the anthology "Finder Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001." The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

Over ten nights in 1999 Seamus Heaney read his translation of Beowulf on the iconic BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. Heaney first encountered Anglo Saxon literature when he studied Beowulf as a student ...

On the 40th anniversary of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s Nobel prize, Cambridge University Press has published Seamus Heaney and Catholicism, an in-depth study by Irish writer Gary Wade examining the ...

It is little over 12 years since Ireland lost its greatest ever poet, and at last Seamus Heaney's impressive body of creative work has been assembled for a new (and rather definitive) collected volume ...

It is more than a decade since Seamus Heaney’s death in 2013, yet his presence in Irish and world letters feels scarcely diminished. The publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie ...

Previously unpublished poems by Seamus Heaney have been included in a new collection of his work available from today. The Poems of Seamus Heaney contains over 700 poems in total, including all 12 of ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert ...