#seamusheaney — Public Fediverse posts

The best poetry books of 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/05/the-best-poetry-books-of-2025 #Bestbooksoftheyear #SimonArmitage #SeamusHeaney #Bestbooks #Culture #Poetry #Books

📖 In einer spanischen Hotel-Bibliothek entdeckte eine Freundin einen Gedichtband von Seamus Heaney. Sie schickte mir das Foto vom Vorsatzblatt, weil ich früher mal in der Nähe der Strand Road in Dublin gewohnt habe.

Steht da Hausnummer 192 oder 191? 🤔 Einer solchen Recherche kann ich nur schwer widerstehen.

✍️In der Strand Road 191 hatte der irische Dichter und Literaturnobelpreisträger gewohnt…

#SeamusHeaney #Dublin #Sandymount #Irland #Recherche #Literaturnobelpreis #Literatur #Handschrift

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#TimeOfTheChild
Niall doing some short vids & the Arcadia Bookclub on youtube went well.

Then we touched on Irish storytelling (see below), #Peig, & #SeamusHeaney reading a poem which has me doubting he's ever been married #Scaffolding. Or perhaps he aimed to preserve the mystery of the holy union by not revealing all?

#Gaolainn #Gaeilge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0EteAgnYc

Rugadh Seamus Heaney ar an 13 Aibreán 1939, i dteach feirme an teaghlach darbh ainm Mossbawn, idir An Seanmhullach agus Tuaim i gContae Dhoire, Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Ba é an chéad pháiste de naonúr. Bronnadh an Duais Nobel na Litríochta air ar an 9 Nollaig 1995 i Stócólm, sa tSualainn.

#Éire #TuaisceartNahÉireann #ContaeDhoire #SeamusHeaney #Filíocht #Gaeilge #Gaeilinn

Rugadh Seamus Heaney ar an 13 Aibreán 1939, i dteach feirme an teaghlach darbh ainm Mossbawn, idir An Seanmhullach agus Tuaim i gContae Dhoire, Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Ba é an chéad pháiste de naonúr. Bronnadh an Duais Nobel na Litríochta air ar an 9 Nollaig 1995 i Stócólm, sa tSualainn.

#Éire #TuaisceartNahÉireann #ContaeDhoire #SeamusHeaney #Filíocht #Gaeilge #Gaeilinn

Rugadh Seamus Heaney ar an 13 Aibreán 1939, i dteach feirme an teaghlach darbh ainm Mossbawn, idir An Seanmhullach agus Tuaim i gContae Dhoire, Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Ba é an chéad pháiste de naonúr. Bronnadh an Duais Nobel na Litríochta air ar an 9 Nollaig 1995 i Stócólm, sa tSualainn.

#Éire #TuaisceartNahÉireann #ContaeDhoire #SeamusHeaney #Filíocht #Gaeilge #Gaeilinn

Fishing for Poetry: A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

Aly Bain, Andrew Greig & Billy Connolly seek the Loch of the Green Corrie – with MacCaig’s poetry read by Douglas Dunn, Alasdair Gray, Seamus Heaney, Jackie Kay, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead & Aonghas MacNeacail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGV9OCHei0

#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #fishing #AlyBain #AndrewGreig #BillyConnolly #DouglasDunn #AlasdairGray #SeamusHeaney #JackieKay #TomLeonard #LizLochhead #AonghasMacNeacail

Today's poem:

Hercules and Antaeus
- by Seamus Heaney

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767571516953182208/hercules-and-antaeus?source=share

#hercules #antaeus #wrestle #combat #poetry #SeamusHeaney #topple #power

Today's poem:

Hercules and Antaeus
- by Seamus Heaney

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767571516953182208/hercules-and-antaeus?source=share

#hercules #antaeus #wrestle #combat #poetry #SeamusHeaney #topple #power

Today's poem:

Hercules and Antaeus
- by Seamus Heaney

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767571516953182208/hercules-and-antaeus?source=share

#hercules #antaeus #wrestle #combat #poetry #SeamusHeaney #topple #power

Today's poem:

The Otter
- by Seamus Heaney

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/750794453377253376/the-otter?source=share

#otter #SeamusHeaney #poetry #lithe #supple #grace #power #freedom

Today's poem:

The Otter
- by Seamus Heaney

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/750794453377253376/the-otter?source=share

#otter #SeamusHeaney #poetry #lithe #supple #grace #power #freedom

Today's poem:

The Otter
- by Seamus Heaney

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/750794453377253376/the-otter?source=share

#otter #SeamusHeaney #poetry #lithe #supple #grace #power #freedom

Rugadh Seamus Heaney ar an 13 Aibreán 1939, i dteach feirme an teaghlach darbh ainm Mossbawn, idir An Seanmhullach agus Tuaim i gContae Dhoire, Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Ba é an chéad pháiste de naonúr. Bronnadh an Duais Nobel na Litríochta air ar an 9 Nollaig 1995 i Stócólm, sa tSualainn.

#Éire 'TuaisceartNahÉireann #ContaeDhoire #SeamusHeaney #Filíocht #Gaeilge

Rugadh Seamus Heaney ar an 13 Aibreán 1939, i dteach feirme an teaghlach darbh ainm Mossbawn, idir An Seanmhullach agus Tuaim i gContae Dhoire, Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Ba é an chéad pháiste de naonúr. Bronnadh an Duais Nobel na Litríochta air ar an 9 Nollaig 1995 i Stócólm, sa tSualainn.

#Éire 'TuaisceartNahÉireann #ContaeDhoire #SeamusHeaney #Filíocht #Gaeilge

Rugadh Seamus Heaney ar an 13 Aibreán 1939, i dteach feirme an teaghlach darbh ainm Mossbawn, idir An Seanmhullach agus Tuaim i gContae Dhoire, Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Ba é an chéad pháiste de naonúr. Bronnadh an Duais Nobel na Litríochta air ar an 9 Nollaig 1995 i Stócólm, sa tSualainn.

#Éire 'TuaisceartNahÉireann #ContaeDhoire #SeamusHeaney #Filíocht #Gaeilge

New BBC Radio 4 series on Seamus Heaney on the tenth anniversary of his death.

This afternoon: 'Seamus Heaney - Poet of Place'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pt1p

#seamusheaney #heaney #poetry #irishpoetry #commemoration #anniversary #literaryheritage #bbc #Radio4 #bbcradio4

This week’s Folk Show includes a Claddagh Records showcase featuring Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly, ØXN and more. Plus, we have plenty of other new folk music releases, including Peatbog Faeries, Kathryn Tickell, Calum Stewart, The Routes Quartet, Grace Smith Trio, Filkin’s Drift and more. #folk #folkmusic #irishtraditionalmusic #poetry #seamusheaney #patrickkavanagh https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2023/08/folk-show-episode-138-a-claddagh-records-special/

“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland and Scotland might be linked through similar philosophical traditions, MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural and political developments as a source of inspiration for Scotland, and Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities between the north and south of Ireland, as well as between #Ireland and #Scotland.”

#Scottish #Irish #literature #JamesJoyce #HughMacDiarmid #SeamusHeaney

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/06/14/late-celticism-in-irish-and-scottish-literature-binding-ties/

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#JosephyBrodsky

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#SeamusHeaney

“...poetry is respected only in Russia — where people are killed for it.”

Here, #Brodsky doesn't come out very well.

One remark by Heaney is his poetry written in English was lame.

Auden reputedly said Brodsky in Russian must be poet of the first order.

Translation always seems to return it to# Nabokov's The Art of the Translation..

"Three grades of evil can be discerned in the queer world of verbal transmigration..."
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https://www.thearticle.com/seamus-heaney-and-joseph-brodsky-a-poetic-friendship
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#7books to get to know me (just fiction for today)

1. Half-Blood Blues by #EsiEdugyan

2. Cryptonomicon by #NealStephenson

3. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten

4. Slough House series by #MickHerron

5. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by #DeepaAnappara

6. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood by #AlistairMacLeod

7. Beowulf (The #SeamusHeaney & #MariaDahvanaHeadley translations)

#7books to get to know me (just fiction for today)

1. Half-Blood Blues by #EsiEdugyan

2. Cryptonomicon by #NealStephenson

3. Pride and Prejudice by #JaneAusten

4. Slough House series by #MickHerron

5. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by #DeepaAnappara

6. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood by #AlistairMacLeod

7. Beowulf (The #SeamusHeaney & #MariaDahvanaHeadley translations)

“If self is a location, so is love:
Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points,
Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance,
Here and there and now and then, a stance.” #SeamusHeaney #poetry #poetryislove