Poets and writers pay tribute to Seamus Heaney
Irish and American writers gathered to read their favorite Seamus Heaney poems for an overflowing audience in Cooper Union’s Great Hall on Monday night. Heaney’s wife Marie and son Michael… Read more »
Did everyone get the first line of Beowulf wrong.. or did Seamus Heaney get it right?
UPDATE: Dr. George Walkden responds below. Earlier this week, The Independent reported that the first line of Beowulf has been incorrectly translated for hundreds of years. According to research by… Read more »
Is there a poem fit for England’s new prince? Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy isn’t writing it
Seamus Heaney, the Irish Nobel-prize winning poet tells an entertaining story about visiting his niece on the day of her christening. Having arrived without a present in hand, Heaney’s wife… Read more »
The villanelle makes a comeback
A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. Five tercets are followed by a quatrain. This highly structured and rigid form is only about a… Read more »