No matter where they are set -- in Ireland or the underworld -- Heaney's poems concern place first and always. I cannot think of another living poet more acutely aware of and conversant with ...

The late Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney often wrote about food—here are some excerpts from his tastiest work ...

Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth century, died in Dublin on Friday at the age of 74. Known in his native Ireland as “Famous Seamus,” Heaney was that rare writer who ...

Heaney, we learn, sometimes drove himself to exhaustion on the lecture circuit and slowed down when he realized he could not always give his best performance, forsaking larger fees as he reached out ...

World-renowned poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney died at age 74 in his native Ireland after a brief illness. Jeffrey Brown looks back on an interview he did with the poet two years ago where ...

“Letters of Seamus Heaney” is the latest release of work from the late Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet.

Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats," has died, the BBC and other news outlets are reporting. Heaney was 74 and had recently been in ill health.

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.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said.

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, has passed away at the age of 74. According to the BBC, he had "recently suffered from ill health." ...

Searching inside ‘The Letters of Seamus Heaney’ for the poet (and myself) The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson ...