Heaney

[hey-nee]

noun

1. Seamus 1939–2013, Irish poet: Nobel Prize 1995.

Heaney

/ ˈhiːnɪ /

noun

1. Seamus ( Justin ) (ˈʃeɪməs). Born 1939, Irish poet and critic, born in Northern Ireland. His collections include Death of a Naturalist (1966), North (1975), The Haw Lantern (1987), The Spirit Level (1996), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010). Nobel prize for literature 1995

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A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said.

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For Stephen Connolly, from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens University in Belfast, this edition is the "first place where everything is all together".

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The Poems of Seamus Heaney includes all 12 of the late poet's collections, alongside a selection of "uncollected" poems that originally appeared in newspapers, journals and magazines under different pen names.

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Nobel laureate, Heaney, who was from Bellaghy in County Londonderry died in August 2013 at the age of 74.

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Heaney has held Professorships at Harvard, and was Oxford Professor of Poetry.

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