Seamus Heaney Day

Posted on April 17, 2006 by sheila

BBC Radio Ulster has declared today to be Seamus Heaney Day – get more information here at Slugger. Here’s one of the posts I’ve written about Seamus Heaney, just to add to the pile. But go over to Slugger, if you love Seamus Heaney – and follow all peteb’s links.

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8 Responses to Seamus Heaney Day

  1. Kevin says:
    April 17, 2006 at 8:41 am

    I just found this site via the Slugger trackback. So far, I’m really impressed. Consider yourself bookmarked, and linked (though only when I’m bothered to fiddle with my blog again!).

  2. amelie says:
    April 17, 2006 at 10:21 am

    have you read his translation of Beowulf? it’s incredible.

  3. red says:
    April 17, 2006 at 10:22 am

    Yes!! I also have it on tape – and it’s him reading it. Soooooooooo good!! I play it while I’m cleaning. hahahahaha

  4. amelie says:
    April 17, 2006 at 11:06 am

    i’ve never heard it on tape; now i’ll have to investigate.

    did you get my email about Atonement? they’re making a film…

  5. red says:
    April 17, 2006 at 11:17 am

    Yeah, I got it, Amelie! I am tentatively excited about it. Not wacky about the cast already, but oh well. I’m not in charge.

  6. dad says:
    April 17, 2006 at 12:37 pm

    Dearest: I’m eagerly awaiting Heaney’s latest [District and Circle] from Amazon. But, New Yorker published 3 or 4 new poems a couple of weeks ago and they were crap. I wonder if some editor there selected them or heaney dumped some rejects on them. love, dad

  7. peteb says:
    April 17, 2006 at 2:22 pm

    They’ve just finished broadcasting the interview, Sheila.. and when they get around to archiving it I’ll add a link over at Slugger. It’s a really interesting interview.. on the evolution of the poet as well as the evolution of Death of a Naturalist – “a threshold.. a trusty doorstep”

    Quotes from Hughes and Wordsworth.. on meeting Larkin [briefly].. and on being accepted by the “mythical legendary Fabers.”

    Lots of fascinating details. He also talks about his apprentice poems in Death of.. and the right voice, wrong vocabulary he now sees in Digging.

    On District and Circle.. there are two of the poems included in the collection linked over at Slugger – Out of Shot and Höfn

    Höfn I liked in particular.. but neither are typical of the collection as a whole.

  8. amelie says:
    April 17, 2006 at 9:24 pm

    we can always hope for scheduling conflicts, and new players we like better… ; )

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