Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats [Getty Images] A new book of Seamus ...

A new scholarly study reveals how the Nobel-winning poet’s verse reflects a profoundly sacramental imagination.

Seamus Heaney is among the most famous and esteemed living poets. His 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature confirmed the image most already had of him, as a towering figure, a grandmaster, an eminence. And ...

In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...

Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor has just spent the past semester teaching in Belfast, Ireland. She talks about how Seamus Heaney poems and visions of home swirled in her head. The poet Tess Taylor left ...