As the title suggests, this new collection from the 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize is a study in balance. Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of ...

So, I wrote a book, ‘Seamus Heaney’s Gifts,’ about his interest in the gift-exchange rituals and the ethics of gift giving.” The book will be published later this year.

New Seamus Heaney Translation to be Published Next Year The work is a translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid, in which the hero Aeneas travels to the underworld to find his dead father.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney is pictured in 2010. Image: Paul McErlane /EPA/Landov The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

Seamus Heaney's "hope and history," Ireland's favorite poet's vision of the world Trinity Long Room Hub's latest online event launches the book "Seamus Heaney and Society" and examines his view of ...

Former ambassador to Japan Jim Sharkey celebrates the positive influence of our literary tradition in fostering links with ...

Irish poet Seamus Heaney in 2006. Image: Chris Jackson/Getty Images The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet, chooses a book from each of his six decades, beginning with the 1940s. Heaney’s latest book of poetry is District and Circle. Kidnapped by ...

So, I wrote a book, ‘Seamus Heaney’s Gifts,’ about his interest in the gift-exchange rituals and the ethics of gift giving.” The book will be published later this year.

The letters of Seamus Heaney reveal that he was bedeviled by the same problem that overwhelms all of us.

The Guardian has published "In a Field," the last known poem by the Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney before his death in August. Inspired by Edward Thomas' 1916 poem, " As the Team's ...