Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not long after suffering a stroke in 2006, Seamus Heaney made a surprise appearance at a poetry festival in Dún ...

For many, the holidays are a time to rekindle connections with family and friends. Sometimes that means thinking about the influences of those we’ve lost. For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who ...

Seamus Heaney took a Syracuse audience back to the beginning Wednesday evening. Several beginnings, really. "The secret of success in life and in art is getting started, keeping going and getting ...

The poet Tess Taylor left her home in California last winter to spend this semester teaching in Northern Ireland. She says she's felt poetry come to life and is learning about the value of place. TESS ...

Henry Hart, the Hickman professor of English and humanities at William & Mary, a former poet laureate of Virginia and the noted author of several literary biographies, has written a second book about ...

DUBLIN — On a December day seven years ago, the poet Seamus Heaney drove up to the back door of the National Library of Ireland, his car packed with 12 boxes from the attic. The haul was more than ...

LONDON - Irish poet Seamus Heaney has won the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for his collection, District and Circle. The collection, the 12th by the Nobel Prize winner, is a sequence of sonnets ...

And, indeed, this is a remarkable new translation, full of nightfall beauties, pierced at its climax by a rainbow surge of hope. The Aeneid is the great masterpiece of the golden age of Roman ...

On the letters & translations of Seamus Heaney. In “The Impact of Translation” (included in The Government of the Tongue), Heaney recalls Stephen Dedalus’s quip, in Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist, ...

Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor has just spent the past semester teaching in Belfast, Ireland. She talks about how Seamus Heaney poems and visions of... Seamus Heaney Poems Come To Life In Belfast, ...