RIP Seamus Heaney

Digging by Seamus Heaney

Awesome body of work. Thank you Seamus for the way you worded.

Awwwww :-(
Seamus Heaney <3

Very sad. I hope he finished everything he was hoping to and went painlessly and content. Maybe the news of his death will spark a new interest in his work.

From North:

Keep your eye clear
as the bleb of the icicle,
trust the feel of what nubbed treasure
your hands have known.

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I'll do my best, sir.

Sorry to hear. My students actually just finished his translation of Beowulf last week.

Aww, I can remember studying him for my Advanced Higher. He truly was a master of his craft.

Great poet! Surprised that most people don't seem to know Heaney.

Open Ground was my first book of poetry, given to me by a neighbor on the occasion of my high school graduation. I was not a literary inclined teen. The gift was, well, weird to seventeen-year-old me and stayed that way for a long time, looking just plain out of place on my sparse bookshelf of a few epic fantasies, which were far outnumbered by math and science textbooks.

But then I read it and, Seamus, you've stayed on my bookshelf a long time since. Last year I went through another Seamus phase and Open Ground lived for a good six months on my desk at work. Read over lunches, it lived next to immunology texts and such that were read much less often. For this reason Seamus holds a place in my literary heart. He was my first poet.